Reel Reviews | Iron Man
Stylish, self-aware, and powered by a dynamite lead performance, Iron Man is a rare superhero film that puts character first and still delivers the thrills. It might be based on metal, but this one has heart.
Reel Reviews | The Queen
by Tim Gordon Several years ago, Jamie Foxx donned a pair of dark shades and delivered one of the best performances ever captured in the [read more]
Reel Reviews | The Hitcher
by Tim Gordon Let me say for the record that I’m not a big fan of horror films. In fact they’re probably my least favorite [read more]
Hollywood Dreamin’ | King — The Film!
by Tim Gordon Yesterday marked what would have been the 80th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Once again as a nation, we paused [read more]
Reel Reviews | Stomp the Yard
by Tim Gordon Almost twenty years ago, Spike Lee introduced mainstream America to African-American life at a fictional historically black college. His film, School Daze, [read more]
Reel Reviews | Arthur and the Invisibles
by Tim Gordon Some years ago, I remember getting into a heated argument on a television show with a film colleague as we were discussing [read more]
Reel Reviews | Alpha Dog
by Tim Gordon Thirty years ago in Animal House, Dean Wormer once told a student that “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go [read more]
Reel Reviews | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Tim Gordon Last month, I was in the middle of cinematic “agony and ecstasy.” As president of the Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA), [read more]