I shouldn’t be surprised that Stephen Sommers’ big screen adaptation of the G.I. Joe franchise was a big, loud, noisy mess.  I think part of it comes from my unabashed enjoyment of the first “Mummy” movie.  And I think it is that enjoyment that I take with me into every Sommers movie, trying to recapture [...]

500 Days of Summer will be making its European premiere at the 62nd Locarno Film Festival. The film stars Joseph Gordeon-Levvitt and Zooey Deschanel, and was directed by Marc Webb. I was fortunate enough to see this film at IFFBoston 2009, and my review can be read here. The film will be screening out-of-competition at [...]

The narrator states right at the beginning of ’500 Days of Summer’ that this film is not a love story. You think, “Yeah right. It has a boy, a girl, and its about their relationship, how is that not a love story.” Well, I’ll further afirm the fact, that ’500 Days of Summer’ is not [...]