The Avengers — a film review by Gary Chew I stopped reading comic books in about 1950. Superman, Batman and Captain Marvel were my favorites. I was stoked when George Reeves as Superman and Adam West as Batman made it to pictures that move instead [more...]
“Bully” — A Film Review by Gary Chew Another polemic documentary film is here. It’s called “Bully”. You can see it at the Tower Theater, Land Park Drive and Broadway in Sacramento. “Bully” has already generated a feud. The opposing parties are those incensed by suicides [more...]
Blue Like Jazz — A Film Review by Gary Chew You may ask yourself after watching a few minutes of Blue Like Jazz what a nice college-aged Houston boy and devout Baptist is doing driving his beat up car to Portland, Oregon to enroll at [more...]
“Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” — A film review by Gary Chew “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” is a movie about fishing that’s not about fishing. In fact, it’s a good deal like another Lasse Halstrőm’s film, “The Cider House Rules,” even though each film [more...]
“The Hunger Games” — a Film Review by Gary Chew There is no doubt as I looked at the expression on Donald Sutherland’s face in the final shot of Gary Ross’s mucho promo-ed film, “The Hunger Games,” that it’s Franchise City for this sci fi [more...]
“Jeff, Who Lives at Home” — A Film Review by Gary Chew A dependent clause in search of being appended to a complete sentence is the title of a movie just opening. That would be, “Jeff, Who Lives at Home.” To be more specific, Jeff [more...]
“John Carter” — A Film Review by Gary Chew I remember the first movie I ever saw because it gave me a nightmare. One of the Tarzan movies it was. Johnny Weismueller in “Tarzan and the Leopard Women” or something like that. Just about everyone [more...]
“An Act of Valor” — A Film Review by Gary Chew That famous WWII quote of President Roosevelt’s, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” has taken on a permutation of late which you’ve probably heard. It goes something like, “The only [more...]
“This Means War” — A film review by Gary Chew It’s not everyday one gets to see a movie that shows an exploding paintball grenade and a guy named FDR in it too. So better hightail it to see the quintessential date movie. And wow, [more...]
“A Dangerous Method” — A Film Review by Gary Chew Not being a student of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Sabina Spielrein (not to mention Otto Gross), it’s difficult knowing to what extent accuracy has been taken in David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method.” But suppose [more...]