Author: Brandon Fibbs

It’s about time someone made a romantic comedy about long-distance relationships. The setup is ripe with both comic and dramatic possibilities, dueling polarities that “Going the Distance” mines equally. This leads to a bit of narrative schizophrenia that will doubtlessly cause those interested purely in romantic comedy to bemoan some serious relational introspection, but it…

“The American,” based on Martin Booth’s 1990 novel “A Very Private Gentleman,” is not an action movie in the conventional sense. It is perhaps more accurately described as an art house film with guns. George Clooney’s character does something in the first few minutes of “The American” that lets us know right off that we…

“Get Low,” a Faulknerian story of poor Southern charm, desperate grace and polished sincerity, is a character showcase for some of this country’s finest statesman actors — Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek. With names like that, does the plot even matter? “Get Low” is gripping from the very first shot — a house,…

I can’t remember the last time I left a movie as angry as I left “The Last Exorcism,” a film that, for the first three quarters of its running time, positively purred, and then, as it rounded the final lap, completely, utterly, absolutely, unquestionably, indubitably ruined any good feelings I had for it with a…

I can’t remember the last time I left a movie as angry as I left “The Last Exorcism,” a film that, for the first three quarters of its running time, positively purred, and then, as it rounded the final lap, completely, utterly, absolutely, unquestionably, indubitably ruined any good feelings I had for it with a…

“Get Low,” a Faulknerian story of poor Southern charm, desperate grace and polished sincerity, is a character showcase for some of this country’s finest statesman actors — Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek. With names like that, does the plot even matter? “Get Low” is gripping from the very first shot — a house,…

Don’t be fooled by misleading advertising or even your own preconceptions. It turns out “The Switch” is a heck of a wonderful film. Wally (Jason Bateman), a neurotic and insecure Wall Street type, has been in love with Kassie (Jennifer Aniston) for years, though she regards him as only a friend. Hearing the thundering of…

The monster movie is a Hollywood staple, and while it may instantly bring to mind such rampaging, titanically sized beasts as King Kong, Godzilla or H. R. Giger’s aliens, it is actually a remarkably broad and fluid genre, encompassing just about every sort of creature, real and imaginary. One defining characteristic of monster movies seems…