Maxwell’s Movie Review: Skyfall

After fifty years and twenty-three Bond films, I can safely assure you that Agent 007 is still busily pursuing anonymous henchmen aboard moving vehicles, seducing women by simply turning around and looking at them, and refusing to ascend skyscrapers in…

Maxwell’s Movie Review: Cloud Atlas

Some movies are like real life – painfully realistic, often cynical or sad, these seek to portray a truth about the world we live in. Many of these are marvelous films – the best among them including Mike Leigh’s Another…

This Month in Film: October New Releases

October brings a nice mix of movies.  It also brings a TON of them. You can’t say that you don’t have options every weekend this month. We, of course, have the horror films that lead up to Halloween. We get…

11 Mind-Blowing Movies

Over the past few weeks I’ve been watching the Cloud Atlas trailer nonstop. Sometimes, almost literally on a loop. I’m torn between wanting the film to come out right now and wanting it to never be released, because anything less…

Coming Soon: Cloud Atlas

See, now I don’t know if any of you would have seen this, but in Dr. Strangelove [or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb], Peter Sellers portrays several characters within the movie. In fact, in many…