Devan King

  Reviews HOPE SPRINGS. Scrolling through Meryl Streep’s résumé on IMDb.com, it’s nearly impossible to find a bad film. Try it. I dare you. Sure, there are silly films and sappy films, films you wouldn’t watch without your children or grandparents present; none of them are bad, though. On the surface, Hope Springs appears to […]

MEN IN BLACK III. Ever since Independence Day (1996), Will Smith has been the go-to sci-fi guy, and the Men in Black franchise has been a nice breather from watching him and everyone else in the genre frown through bleak, post-apocalyptic wastelands or high-tech moral dilemmas. MIB movies are slick, wholesome odes to B-movies and […]

BATTLESHIP. I put a lot of energy into trying to hate Battleship, even before the first trailer premiered. I railed against the absurdity of a board game adaptation, demanding Hollywood explain this flimsy, gratuitous attempt to capitalize on the childhoods of all Americans. Have they run out of books to adapt? Dreck to sequelize? Is […]

Reviews THE CABIN IN THE WOODS. Joss Whedon fans have been waiting three years for this film, patiently twiddling their thumbs and re-watching Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog while creative minds and studios clashed over the specifics of the film’s release. Whedon and Drew Goddard have set the bar high for themselves since the cult success […]

Reviews JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME. The good comedies are always harder to find. Movies like Bridesmaids or The Hangover, with their incessant advertising, are impossible to avoid.  Whatever entertainment value they might hold is lost before we enter the theater; they can’t live up to the hype. Jeff, Who Lives at Home had no […]

Humboldt Movie Times ALBERT NOBBS. The Oscars have come and gone, leaving the unrequited nominees to walk away, heads held as high as possible. The fervor surrounding The Artist (not undeserved) drowned out the competition, leaving masterpieces like Albert Nobbs in the dust. The story centers on Glenn Close’s title character, an Irish woman living […]

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. Journalist Mikael Blomqvist (Daniel Craig) is enlisted to investigate the long-ago disappearance of Henrik Vanger’s (Christopher Plummer) niece. Suspects abound — there are Nazis, drunks and abusers in every branch of the family tree. The heroine, Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), a punk hacker/researcher, is also among villains, and neither […]

  THE SITTER. If you’re among the David Gordon Green faithful, and are therefore holding out some germ of hope that he’ll make a return to the ruminative, atmospheric style of his early work (George Washington, All The Real Girls), you will likely be disappointed by The Sitter. If instead you’re the kind of person […]