Director Robert Rodriguez doesn’t know how to let go of an idea. He turned his debut feature film “El Mariachi” into a trilogy. Then, he did the same with “Spy Kids.” Now he’s doing it again with his “Machete” character months before he’s to release a second “Sin City” film. When you have these many sequels in the works, your time is nearly up. After…
‘Gravity” affirms that Sandra Bullock can star in virtually anything. Her performance in Alfonso Cuaron’s interstellar thriller tells us something we might not have know about her: she’s truly a fearless actress. Only she can star in a film as light as “The Heat” (2013) before moving on to a more heavy and dramatic project like “Gravity” in which she stars as an astronaut fighting…
Luke (Ryan Gosling) knows how to expertly handle a motorcycle because of his job as a stunt rider at a carnival. This is a skill that serves him well particularly when he decides to turn into a bank robber to provide financially for his lover (played by Eva Mendes) and newborn son. Then there’s Avery (Bradley Cooper), an ambitious rookie cop. His dilemma is that…
This was the last movie review Roger Ebert filed. Released less than two years after his “The Tree of Life,” an epic that began with the dinosaurs and peered into an uncertain future, Terrence Malick’s “To the Wonder” is a film that contains only a handful of important characters and a few crucial moments in their lives. Although it uses dialogue, it’s dreamy and half-heard, and essentially…
