Cole Smithey - Reviews

THE GREAT GATSBY

Cole Smithey — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:21:30 -0400

Gatsby In Hell Flames of Incompetence Devour Baz Luhrmann Baz Luhrmann’s bastardization of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel is a travesty in the most demeaning sense of the word. The film represents a sin against cinema and literature of cataclysmic proportions. Toxic, rather than intoxicating, the...

STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

Cole Smithey — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:29:59 -0400

“Star Trek Into Darkness” is a lot of movie. It gets personalities and dialogue right, but lets gigantic plot problems slide around like ocean-bound rubber duckies on an oil slick.

KISS OF THE DAMNED

Cole Smithey — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:04:54 -0400

Blood Feast Xan Cassavetes Sinks Her Teeth In Vampires are by definition a retro construct. Living forever means always looking back. The future is merely a continuing cycle of corruption and death. Flesh-and-blood is the only reliable thing around. In cinema, vampire stories have served...

The Iceman

Cole Smithey — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:06:16 -0400

A refreshing addition to the contract killer biopic genre, Ariel Vromen’s Friedkinesque dramatization of Richard Kuklinski’s rise and fall, via three decades of heinous crimes, is a doozy.

Oblivion

Cole Smithey — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:35:06 -0400

oblivion, cole smithey, tom cruise

To the Wonder

Cole Smithey — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:02:43 -0400

Terrence Malick still hasn’t made a remarkable film since 1978. That was the year he made “Days of Heaven” — not to be confused with “Gates of Heaven.”

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Cole Smithey — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:19:58 -0400

Writer-director Brian Helgeland’s methodically balanced biopic about revered baseball legend Jackie Robinson manages the near-impossible feat of offering all things to all people.