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Top Articles from Film - Chuck Koplinski
More than a cartoon, Up is a life lessonHolidays at the moviesHow Henry Selick brings Coraline to lifeKick-Ass is only half rightThe Last Airbender is a disasterSex 2: Narcissism cont.Understanding Potter’s magical spell as it comes to an endSteve an unmitigated disaster Believe the hype: Paranormal a true bone-rattlerStory of a used toy store
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, December 20,2012
Wreck-it Ralph’s clever odyssey
My father always used to say that he hated taking us to Disney animated films, yet I remember him being the one who laughed the most at what was happening on the screen. Of course, that’s the se
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, December 13,2012
Hitchcock too fractured
Much like the bathroom at the Bates Motel where Marion Crane met her untimely death, Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock is a bit of a mess. Attempting to tell the story about the making of one of the mos
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, December 6,2012
Softly a metaphor for our times
More like The Sopranos in tone and feel than Pulp Fiction, what with its lack of self-aware irony, Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly has more than a few axes to grind. Intent on throwing the
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, November 29,2012
Rousing visuals and heartfelt message in soaring Guardians
When people console me for having to see every movie that comes out, even the ones that make going in for a root canal look like a more enjoyable option, I tell them that this aspect of being a film c
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, November 29,2012
Pi a dazzling exploration of the spiritual world
I’ve become a skeptic where the modern 3-D process is concerned. The Hollywood studios have taken a good thing and overused it to the point that they’re starting to see a downturn in reven
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Wednesday, November 21,2012
The Sessions survives narrative oversight
You’d have to be a hardhearted individual indeed not to be moved by Mark O’Brien’s story. Having contracted polio at the age of six, the writer spends most of his time confined in an
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, November 15,2012
Spielberg’s powerful portrait of Lincoln the man
Surprisingly intimate yet dealing with moral questions of epic proportion, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a movie befitting its subject as we know him. At once warm and folksy, at others fierce a
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, November 8,2012
Washington soars in Flight
If you look back at the careers of the great screen actors and actresses, you’ll notice that after they’ve successfully established a recognizable persona, they begin to seek ways to break
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, November 8,2012
Skyfall returns Bond to solid ground
In a recent interview, director Sam Mendes stated that Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight “gave me the confidence to take Skyfall in directions that might not have been possible before it
Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, November 1,2012
Wallflower a sincere look at teen troubles
While everyone was falling all over themselves praising the films of John Hughes for their keen insight on the plight of teenagers, I couldn’t help but scoff at the “sincerity” found
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