The Skeleton Key

The Skeleton Key

Film review by: Witney Seibold

 

            Yeah, so it’s a thriller.

The Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm

Film review by: Witney Seibold

 

            The Brothers Grimm starts out chaotically and confusingly with mere traces of workable humor or understandable story underneath a patina of murky photography and director Terry Gilliam’s own idiosyncratic form of wackiness.

Corpse Bride

Corpse Bride

Film review by: Witney Seibold

 

            Well, I know what every dejected teenage Goth girl is going to go as for Halloween this year…

The Prize-Winner of Defiance, Ohio

The Prize-Winner of Defiance, Ohio

Film review by: Witney Seibold

 

            Julianne Moore plays a real-life 1950s housewife named Evelyn Ryan who, to supplement the meager income of her machinist husband and feed her twelve children, entered jingle-writing contests and sweepstakes.

Separate Lies

Separate Lies

Film review by: Witney Seibold

 

            It starts out as another dry, British unhappy-marriage story.

Capote

Capote

Film review by: Witney Seibold

 

            Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood was a hit when it was published in 1959, and is considered in some scholarly circles one of the most important books of the century.

The Squid and the Whale

The Squid and the Whale

Film review by: Witney Seibold

 

            As children, everyone thinks that their parents are Olympian. Infallible. Perfect asexual beings that are our primary and only specimen of the adult world. Perhaps you begin growing up when you finally come to see that your parents are not gods, but merely people like you.

Frost/Nixon

Frost/Nixon

Film review by: Witney Seibold

 

 

 

            Ron Howard’s “Frost/Nixon” is a tightly constructed film about several things at once;

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Film review by: Witney Seibold

 

 

 

            “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is a sweeping, florid romance about a couple that is destined, destined, to be together, despite the hundreds of miles and difficult personality conflicts, despite the different upbringings, despite the clash of his old-time sensibilities and her ultra-modern progressiveness.

 

            Yawn.

 

Che

Che

Film review by: Witney Seibold

 

 

            He was a revolutionary, and developed a type of warfare that helped build regimes, and would ultimately destroy him. You may know him from the t-shirts.