Isaac Weeks

While it never sounded like a great idea for a film, Grudge Match can’t be faulted for not having a decent hook. With Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro starring as a couple of elderly boxers hell-bent on fighting each other one last time, the film enables the two screen veterans a chance to revisit […]

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Now playing About halfway through The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the latest film adaptation of James Thurber’s short story of the same name, I was reminded of the 2011 box-office bomb Cowboys & Aliens. Both films show tremendous promise in parts, only to be hamstrung by the very […]

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Opens Wednesday The question asked by many of Will Ferrell’s biggest fans has always been when the comedic actor would return to the polyester suits of his greatest creation, Ron Burgundy. If Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is the best the filmmakers could come up with, I’m afraid even his […]

Frozen opens Wednesday In its attempt to hold onto its claim as audiences’ go-to supplier of animated family fun, Disney doesn’t quite manage to stick the landing with their latest, Frozen. Still, this story concerns two royal sisters, introverted Anna (Kristen Bell) and extroverted Elsa (Idina Menzel). After a childhood accident in which Elsa’s magical […]

The Book Thief opens Wednesday Based on the 2005 best-selling young adult novel by Markus Zusak, The Book Thief is the latest film to introduce children to the atrocities of World War II and Nazi Germany. Through the eyes of a pretty little blond girl, we see families struggling in a war-torn society, the near-nightly […]

Delivery Man opens Friday Since Vince Vaughn’s breakout performance in Swingers, audiences have come to expect certain things when he appears onscreen. Manic energy and a snarky attitude have been the actor’s main character traits in so many movies crafted by lazy filmmakers that it’s easy to mistake Vaughn as being responsible. So it comes […]

The Fifth Estate opens Friday Earlier this week, Julian Assange, the founder of the news organization WikiLeaks, released an email he had sent to Benedict Cumberbatch, the actor portraying Assange in the new bio-drama The Fifth Estate. In the letter, Assange insinuates that Cumberbatch was being used as a tool to undermine the website’s work […]

Don Jon opens Friday Like so many actors who have come before, Joseph Gordon-Levitt decided to take a shot behind the camera. Luckily for him, Don Jon not only continues his streak of winning on-screen performances but actually has a fighting chance of making a few Top 10 lists by the end of 2013. The […]