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

By Chuck Koplinski

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

By Chuck Koplinski

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

By Chuck Koplinski

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

By Chuck Koplinski

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

By Chuck Koplinski

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

By Chuck Koplinski

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

By Chuck Koplinski

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

Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, November 1,2012

Atlas tries but dies

By Chuck Koplinski

To be sure, the big screen adaptation of David Mitchell’s best-selling novel Cloud Atlas is an ambitious undertaking. Its very nature has led some to say it’s a property that could not be

Film - Chuck Koplinski | Thursday, October 25,2012

Perry gets Cross-ed up

By Chuck Koplinski

While I appreciate Tyler Perry’s desire to branch out from his “Medea” films, which have put him on the map as far as the movie community is concerned, I couldn’t imagine a wor