Author Archive for Paul Peterson
The Sessions – funny, genuine, sometimes subtle, sometimes not
I’m pretty sure I have never taken on back-to-back video releases, but do you really need me to tell you that A Good Day To Die Hard should have been called A Good Day To Kill This Series? Is it really necessary for me to point out that if John Maclean never went away he […]
There’s hope and joy in Perks of Being A Wallflower
Well here’s your Academy Award show review. Argo won Best Picture. I think that’s terrible in terms of the other films it was up against but ok, it captured a fairly heroic moment in their history and it really was a good film. It just wasn’t the picture of the year. Jennifer Lawrence won Best […]
Fun in latest installment in the not-quite-dead-yet genre
I remember the good old days. It was a simpler time.Vampires wore a big cape and talked like they were from some kind of third world emerging nation. They were slow witted and well, let’s just say it, ugly. Then things started to change. I blame The Lost Boys.Vampires having fun, getting girls, living forever. […]
Identity Thief a quirky fun buddy movie
Jason Bateman has been in the entertainment business for a long time, starting back when he was very young and playing on Little House on the Prairie and Silver Spoons. He hit the peak with the Valerie Harper show, and then hit a low point with Teen Wolf 2 By his own admission, that was […]
Hansel and Gretel harmless fun, but not for kids
There are times when you hear a title and it just sounds like a sure fire hit. I remember the first time I heard someone utter the phrase “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle”. I was blown away. Brilliant. I had a similar experience when I heard there was a series of films coming out with titles […]
And the winner might be… part two
There are so many things that go into making a great film. I think it all starts with writing. You have to tell a good story. If you don’t believe me, watch a Transformers sequel. More money than Ireland, but terrible to watch. Cringeworthy. Take a little movie like Hotel Marigold with no special effects, […]
And the winner might be….
Well, it’s another year and another slate of Oscar nominations and I thought I’d do it a little differently this year. I thought I’d actually try and get it right this time. Hey, even a blind squirrel finds the odd acorn. Some years are easy to predict and others not so much. Oscars to be […]
A very good year for movies
It’s another year and another excuse for a highlight reel column. What better way to wrap up 2012 than with a list of the 10 best films I saw last year. I’m not going to rate them in terms of 1 to 10 These are just the best films of 2012 and any one of […]
Pi is a marvellous, mystical study in resilience and survival
Years ago I read Canadian Yann Martell’s remarkable novel The Life of Pi and was impressed by several things about the book. It’s rather sweeping mysticism coupled with the totally original story about a young boy who is trapped in a boat with a Bengal tiger. The visuals described were amazing and the originality of […]
Hobbit is beautiful, but bloated
Well, I am always the first to point out when I have a conflict of interest, although it has less to do with journalistic integrity and more to do with using that declaration as a means to make fun of some group of the populace that I’m about to mock. In this case, having at […]
