Neil Morris

The Day the Earth Stood Still opens Friday throughout the Triangle The Day the Earth Stood Still is a remake of Robert Wise’s 1951 Cold War-era classic, but this time out the relevant zeitgeist is the eco-dread that fueled blockbusters like Wall-E and Quantum of Solace. This go-round, instead of waging war against mankind’s penchant […]

Bolt opens Friday throughout the Triangle As far as non-Pixar Disney Animation movies go, Bolt is a cut above the norm. The star of this 3D spectacle is Bolt, a small white shepherd that has lived his whole life as the star of his own action TV show, in which he possesses superpowers and does […]

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas opens Friday in select theaters To borrow a line from an Indy colleague, the first thing I thought at the start of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was, “Uh-oh, this is another Nazi movie.” However, the film’s unique perspective temporarily assuaged my fears that this was, to be […]

Quantum of Solace opens Friday throughout the Triangle A woman lies prone on a bed, her naked, post-coital body face down and completely coated with a precious natural substance that suffocates her skin, killing her in the process. This scene from Goldfinger is among the most iconic in the James Bond canon, and, interestingly, it […]

What Just Happened? opens Friday throughout the Triangle Sixteen years ago, Robert Altman released The Player, in which the director reclaimed his mainstream filmmaking cred by making a Hollywood film that sticks a thumb in the eye of the studio system. It is the same blueprint that the immensely less talented Barry Levinson attempts to […]

Zack and Miri Make a Porno opens Friday throughout the Triangle In his latest satire, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, 38-year-old Kevin Smith, already the mores-pushing mind behind the Clerks films, sees American society’s slowly expanding standards of decency as an invitation to further indulge his adolescent impulses. Smith now adds frontal nudity and […]

Nights in Rodanthe opens Friday throughout the Triangle Ah, so this is what North Carolina’s coast looks like on film. As a lifelong resident of the Tar Heel state, it is difficult to maintain complete objectivity in reviewing a film like Nights in Rodanthe. When two of Nicholas Sparks’ novels were previously adapted for the […]

Baghead opens Friday in select theaters It took five minutes for Baghead to win me over. The film’s extended prologue opens at the Los Angeles Underground Film Festival with the screening of a micro-budget, laughable indie pic entitled We Are Naked. As Chad (Steve Zissis) and Matt (Ross Partridge), themselves friends and starving filmmakers, react […]