Gary Wolcott's "Mr. Movie" column has appeared in the Tri-City Herald since 1992. The Tri-City native now lives in Portland, Ore., and watches about 250 movies each year. This member of Portland's association of movie critics, Far From Hollywood, believes movies are made to be seen on theater screens and should be seen there and not on television screens. Have a question for Mr. Movie? Click on "Add Comment" below. Mr. Movie has joined Twitter. Follow him here.
On Aug. 7, 1974 Frenchman Philippe Petit and his team strung a wire between the World Trade Centers twin towers.
While the police and security officials frantically tried to get him to stop, Petit spent 45 minutes cavorting between one tower and the other 110 floors up.
His walk is intense. There just isnt enough decent footage or interesting information to keep you from feeling as if writer/director James Marsh is padding his documentary for length.
Once Marsh gets to the few minutes the movie spends on the actual event, Man on Wire boggles the mind. It just takes a little bit too long to get there.
Mr. Movie rating: 4 stars
Rated PG-13 for mature themes, brief nudity. It plays once, beginning at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20 at the Battelle Auditorium in Richland.
5 stars to 4 1/2 stars: Must see on the big screen
4 stars to 3 1/2 stars: Good film, see it if it's your type of movie.
3 stars to 2 1/2 stars: Wait until it comes out on video.
2 stars to 1 star: Don't bother.
0 stars: Speaks for itself.
'Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol' best of series
Trying to escape his captors, Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt slides down a wire and hits the top of a moving truck.
He flies off the truck and lands hard on a cobblestone street, rolls to the curb, and sits up. Free from his bonds, uncut, unbruised and unfettered, a picture-perfect Cruise, hair dangling slightly over one eye, sits still and ready to spring to the next action sequence.
Families — before you pack up the kids and head to the movies, be warned.
By tradition, horse movies are a family fit. War Horse is not.
I hate to be so blunt. Normally, I say think for yourself, but War Horse is far from family friendly and the warning is appropriate. It’s quite violent. By the time you get to the climax, the warm fuzzy you’re supposed to get at the happy ending, isn’t so warm. Or fuzzy.
Kudos to Battelle Film Club for bringing 'The Hedgehog'
The Hedgehog is a subtitled French film from 2009 that finally got released in the U.S. last year, and thanks to the Battelle Film Club , it will be seen in the Tri-Cities.
The story centers around Paloma, an 11-year old girl whose interests are philosophy and art.
No one in her family can relate. Her parents barely speak to each other much less to Paloma. The disconnected mom talks to plants, and the psychiatrist but can’t talk to her daughter. Dad is nowhere to be found.
Anna Faris is the insecure Ally Darling, and relationships never seem to work out for her.
On her way home after just being fired from a job — and just before the pathetic Ally ends up sleeping with the boss that fired her — she reads an article about the number of lovers women have for their entire life.
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