Author Archive for Paul Peterson
Rise of the Guardians explains things we never knew
I’m not sure Rise of the Guardians is a Christmas movie in the conventional sense, but if it was it would finally break into my Top 10 of all time great Christmas movies. Every year they trot out some new Santa themed film that falls well short, but this is a really charming movie. It’s […]
Twilight Part 2 terrible but everybody loves it
Well, I can’t postpone it any longer. In the wake of not reissuing the Christmas column yet again and a small 255 million in sales, I suppose the time has come for me to review The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Ewwwww. Well, here’s the thing. Bella and Edward are happily married and the […]
This is not your father’s Bond
Any reasonable reviewer will start off the piece with a dissertation on who was the best Bond ever. I’ve never laid claim to any level of reasonable but I will for the purposes of this review suggest that while Sean Connery was hands down the definitive Bond, and you can believe me because I’m always […]
Flight – see if there’s hope for the hopeless
So there may very well be something in me that’s like biting on tin foil as my brother Phil has suggested, or maybe I just hate playing to type and doing the obvious. So, I’m not going to review Skyfall which did 88 million for its opening weekend. Besides, I have it on a good […]
Here Comes the Boom – suspend the disbelief
So for starters I have to say, as a theatre owner, I like all of Kevin James’ movies because people tend to flock to them in droves and so art gets sacrificed on the altar of pure capitalism. I still have very find memories of Paul Blart Mall Cop That was the worst movie I […]
A long time ago tomorrow
Movies on the water and time travel are almost always destined to bomb or be weird or just cost more than Australia. James Cameron might have an exception to that rule, but most movies don’t get time travel right. Looper, starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, play old Joe and young Joe respectively – two […]
Gold stars for Trouble with the Curve
I saw Trouble with The Curve the other night, and the night and the movie so exceeded my expectations that I’m giving gold stars all around. Clint Eastwood stars as Gus, the usual gnarled crusty emotionless baseball scout with a beautiful, successful daughter, a wife who passed years ago but still is his constant companion […]
The summer as I saw it. Ka-ching without a lot of booing
Well, summer officially headed out of town the other day so it feels like the right time to take a look in the rear view mirror at the summer in film, and see what worked and what didn’t. I researched the worldwide grosses for a change. Usually I just report domestic so we see how […]
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel a gem of a movie
I was talking to a friend of mine about my favorite films and I smugly named my top three, only to admit that there are three more an hour later that wouldn’t include the first three. I am a sucker for little pictures that tell a quirky story, and if they’re uplifting and well written, […]
Saying ‘I Do’ to the Top Wedding flicks of all time
In my other life, where I’m thin and well-groomed, I can also perform weddings. Recently I had occasion to be at this amazing place called Spindletree Gardens in Tamworth and the day and the bride were lovely and of course I’m always looking for a new Top 10 list and it struck me that the […]
