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Movies You Aught Not Watch: National Security
Movies You Aught Not Watch is Nick Rogers’ weekly, alphabetical look back at the 52 worst films of 2000-2009. “National Security” Rated PG-13 2003 Were rampant misogyny and coarse racial intolerance...
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Heroes of the Zeroes: Rescue Dawn
Heroes of the Zeroes is Nick Rogers’ daily, alphabetical look back at the 365 best films of 2000-2009. “Rescue Dawn” Rated PG-13 2007 Werner Herzog’s “Rescue Dawn” played like an art-house “Rambo”...
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Movies You Aught Not Watch: Strange Wilderness
Movies You Aught Not Watch is Nick Rogers’ weekly, alphabetical look back at the 52 worst films of 2000-2009. “Strange Wilderness” Rated R 2008 2008’s “Strange Wilderness” is not really a film. It’s...
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Treme: Season One
As a critic, it is unfair to grade something based upon the artist’s last project. It should be looked at on its own. Yet as an admirer of the artist, of course, I want to take the last project into...
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Treme: Season Two
When I tune into “Game of Thrones,” “Doctor Who” or “Breaking Bad,” I’m curious to see where the story will go next. I tune in because the story is exciting and the show has strong characters to make...
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Dallas Buyers Club
Ron Woodruff doesn’t look like a hero. He doesn’t sound like one, either, and, in fact, does a whole lot of irresponsible and even hateful stuff. When we first meet him, it’s apparent he’s...
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Dallas Buyers Club
Has any actor ever squandered his career with better efficiency than Matthew McConaughey, then reclaimed it with such a superior run of movies? The former star of “Failure to Launch” has had one...
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Class of 1994: “Reality Bites”
In the “Class of …” series, Nick Rogers takes a monthly look back at films celebrating either their 20th or 30th anniversary of initial release this year — six from 1994 and six from 1984. The rules:...
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Cinema Blind Spots: Out of Sight (1998)
We all have films we really, really want to see, but many of them never make it from our Blu-ray shelves to the television, and simply remain on a list for years. As an aspiring film historian, I have...
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The Good Dinosaur
“The Good Dinosaur” contains many notes and musical phrases from other animated films, but it’s still a strong song all on its own. It mostly feels like elements of “The Lion King” and “Finding Nemo,”...
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The Good Dinosaur
“Shaun the Sheep” got an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, but “The Good Dinosaur” did not? Color me confused. In a relatively weak year for animated pictures, “The Good Dinosaur” stands out...
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Captain Fantastic
“Captain Fantastic” is about a rebel who learns the limits of rebellion. Viggo Mortensen plays Ben Cash, who long ago gave up on Western civilization and is raising his six kids in the woods like...
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War for the Planet of the Apes
“War for the Planet of the Apes” didn’t do as well commercially and critically as its two predecessors, virtually reassuring that the reboot of the franchise will end as a trilogy. That’s a shame,...
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Lean on Pete
This was not the film I was expecting. You’d think a movie about a boy and a horse would be uplifting and affirming; e.g., damaged human and damaged animal learn to heal together, in the mold of...
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Blaze
“Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser.” –Lucinda Williams “Blaze” is a hazy, mournful elegy for a man many have called the greatest country music singer-songwriter...
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Uncle Frank
“Uncle Frank” is one of those movies that is heartfelt, splendidly acted and as predictable as a sunset. It’s written and directed by Alan Ball, who won an Oscar for the screenplay for “American...
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