Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski It’s very clear to me that Christopher Lee made some kind of Faustian deal with Satan when he first played Dracula in 1958. I’m sure that Peter Cushing, his great friend and co-star, is whiling away his time[Read More…]

John Cusack in The Raven. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski Hey, I had a good time at The Raven. Being a fan of Poe’s writings from way back (and often being whipped into a state of anxiety by them when I was in grammar school; my father wouldn’t[Read More…]

Alex Libby in the documentary film, ‘Bully.’ (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski As far as documentaries that try to make a point or promote change (as opposed to displaying an objective point of view or presenting visual poetry) go, Bully certainly knows which buttons to push. I’m not[Read More…]

(PHOTO SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski While I was explaining the premise of The Cabin in the Woods to a colleague of mine at school, he quickly dismissed the movie as “The Breakfast Club, but where the assistant principal is the monster.” He was sort of right. The movie[Read More…]

Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski When Jennifer Lawrence came upon the scene with her stunning, moving, Oscar-nominated performance in Winter’s Bone, some of us were under the impression that she was an artist fresh from doing independent movies, that whole milieu of filming in garages, shooting without a permit, making[Read More…]

Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins in John Carter Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski John Carter is a decent, literate, beautifully designed and technically incredible version of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel A Princess of Mars (1917), which first featured the eponymous character. It took nearly seventy years before the book[Read More…]

Jason Cottle in Act of Valor. (PROMOTIONAL PHOTO) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski Act of Valor is not a documentary, although it stars actual Navy SEALs, who only go by their ranks and first names in the credits. It puts these actual warriors in a script and situation and lets[Read More…]

Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds in Safe House. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski For a Denzel Washington Non-Event Movie (unlike, say, Philadelphia or American Gangster, or Malcolm X), Safe House isn’t too bad. It’s more like something from the Action Movie Buoyed up by The Presence of Denzel[Read More…]