(PHOTO SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski Sentiment in the movies, especially when it goes for my jugular, is something that makes me wary and often forces me to hide between a shield of cynicism. The portrayal of honest relatable emotion can get my crying. In my youth, I remember[Read More…]

Bérénice Bejo and Jean Dujardin in The Artist (SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski If Mel Brooks’ 1976 SILENT MOVIE operates on a gimmick, Michel Hazanavicius’ THE ARTIST transcends the gimmick. Both films are corny and sentimental, and in truth, without the treatment of each one as a silent movie,[Read More…]

Charlize Theron as Mavis Gary in YOUNG ADULTS (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski “From the director of UP IN THE AIR and the writer of JUNO,” proclaim the ads for YOUNG ADULT. Those vaunted folks would, of course, be Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, respectively. Truth is, the[Read More…]

George Clooney, Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller in THE DESCENDANTS. (SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski I have a cellophane-wrapped DVD copy of SIDEWAYS, directed by Alexander Payne, but I have never opened it up and watched it. It is on my ever-increasing list. I have, though, seen his high[Read More…]

Loenardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski Whether it was fair or not, when I got home from seeing J. EDGAR, Clint Eastwood’s rendering of and speculations on the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, I sat down and watched THE AVIATOR.[Read More…]

Martha Marcy May Marlene photo. (SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski As far as is-it-real-or-is-it-in-his-or-her-imagination movies go, MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (when you talk about it, and I suspect you will, maybe try M TO THE FOURTH POWER or just go ahead and lisp it. That is, once you’ve memorized[Read More…]

George Clooney. (Photo supplied) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski I was talking once with my friend, the late, great Rick Zagone. He said that a play he was pushing for the next year’s season in our community theater was David Mamet’s GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. Not wanting to be left out[Read More…]

Brad Pitt in Moneyball. (SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski In my not-so-vast experience of watching sports movies (and right away we can argue if that’s what this is) MONEYBALL is probably the oddest of the genre that I have ever seen. You come from the movie exultant and fully[Read More…]

Matt Damon in Contagion. (SUPPLIED) Movie Reviews By Bernie Jablonski It is obvious, by now, that Gwyneth Paltrow’s character dies in the first twenty minutes or so of CONTAGION, the new film by Stephen Soderbergh. To ensure us that we’ve not been handed a spoiler, the movie opens with a[Read More…]