Star Wars: Episode I–The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II–Attack of the Clones, and Star Wars: Episode III–Revenge of the Sith

1999 136 minutes, 2002 142 minutes, 2005 140 minutesEwan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden ChristensenWritten and Directed by George Lucas When I was a kid, there wasn’t Star Wars: Episode Anything. There was Star Wars, there was The Empire Strikes Back, and then there was Return of the Jedi. The plot of the movies can be

An Education

2009 100 minutesCarey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred MolinaDirected by Lone Scherfig Screenplay by Nick Hornby, based on the Memoir by Lynn Barber*** out of **** For the first 90 minutes, An Education is a great film. For the final 10 minutes, An Education is an after-school special where everything wraps up neatly, and the heroine

Why Avatar Becoming Box-Office Champion is Great

Avatar’s ascent to the position of “Box Office Champ” means something lovely. Everyone knows that a ticket to Avatar costs more than a ticket to a movie that isn’t 3-D. 100 tickets to Avatar cost far more than 100 tickets to Tyler Perry’s newest movie. Now that Avatar has destroyed the late 90’s box-office gross

Twilight and The Twilight Saga: New Moon

2008 121 minutes and 2009 130 minutesKristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor LautnerBased on the Novels by Stephanie MeyerDirected by Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight), andDirected by Chris Weitz (The Twilight Saga: New Moon) I once picked a book from the Twilight series off my couch and thumbed through it. My wife, along with Puddlies, the stray cat