THE REVIEW CORNER

Starring: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, and Christopher Plummer Directed by: David Fincher Screenplay by: Steven Zaillian Based on the novel by Stieg Larsson     Is it just me or does it seem like everyone has read this book?  I must be one of the few who haven't read it.  However, this film is still quite entertaining.     Swedish journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) has just gotten into some major legal issues because of an article he wrote in which his facts were not backed up with evidence.  His reputation has been ruined.     Fortunately for Blomkvist, Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), an extraordinarily wealthy man, has a rather interesting mystery for Blomkvist to solve.  Vanger's daughter has been missing for forty years and needs someone to find out what happened to her.  Blomkvist must now be a detective for Vanger and the with the help of a young computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), get to know Vanger's entire family in order to find out

Starring: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, and John Goodman Directed by: Michel Hazanavicius Screenplay by: Michel Hazanavicius     Is the silent film making a comeback?  In an era in which every movie made involves dialogue, how would a silent film (in black and white) be able to compete?  It's entirely possible, just ask the creators of The Artist,  the only new silent film released in recent memory.     Hollywood 1927; the silent film era is beginning to come to a close with the invention of the "talkie", the film with sound and dialogue.  Legendary silent film actor George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is on his way out of the spotlight with the coming age of films with sound.  It seems that it is time for new faces, ones in which the public can hear as well as see.     It's a perfect situation for a beautiful young dancer, Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), trying to get involved in this new industry known as Hollywood when she accidentally meets George Valentin for the

Directed by: Guy Ritchie Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, and Noomi Rapace Screenplay by: Michele Mulroney and Kieran Mulroney     The ultimate detective duo is back, and this time, they're playing a dangerous game affecting all of Europe.     It's 1891 and France and Germany are on the brink of war.  Bombs are going off periodically throughout the two countries.  So, it's up to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to figure out what's really going on, and prevent a mad professor from starting a disastrous war.     As with the first Sherlock Holmes  film in the current series (2009), clues are everywhere, even in places we wouldn't expect them to be.  This long and convoluted story, involves many characters (some not even essential to the story yet are main characters), and is not exactly told in a coherent fashion.  It's easy to get lost.  There is so much information about the case given in each scene, that sometimes the film may march on while we are st

Starring: Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, and Sacha Baron Cohen Directed by: Martin Scorsese Screenplay by: John Logan Based on the novel:  "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick     I'd like to start this review by saying that if you had even the slightest thought that this would be a children's movie, you would be correct about the first third of the movie.  But I can promise you, that the other two thirds of the movie are nothing like any of Martin Scorsese's other films.  No, there are no mobsters and there is no violence.     Hugo Cabret lives his life like a mechanic.  He lives in a Paris train station during the Interwar period in Europe.  Shortly before his father (Jude Law) dies tragically in a fire, the two of them work on fixing up a machine that seems like a robot, but all it's meant to do is write and draw, nothing else.  Even after his father's death, Hugo still is determined to get the machine working ag