See photos of Spooky Empire May-hem

I turned photographer briefly this weekend at Spooky Empire’s horror-movie convention, May-hem. Check out my pics at the Website of The Orlando Weekly.

Ultron, Ultrer, Ultrest!

To hate Avengers: Age of Ultron, one would have to be devoid of all childlike adventure. But, being an adult, I have to admit it’s an odd, ADD smorgasbord without much form, plausibility or mature storytelling. Still, it again raises the bar (which really didn’t need to be raised) on frenetic, CGI-infused, eye-popping visual design. […]

‘Age of Adaline’ not one for the ages

Thumbs-up (3 stars on 0-5 scale) for The Age of Adaline. It got me with its Romanticism and time-travel feel, though it lacked any real magic thanks to a just-there performance by Blake Lively, an odd script that failed to really capture the haunting passage of time, and its inability to challenge our notion of […]

19th-century vs. 21st-century love

I know everyone is talking about the new Avengers film, but let me say something about Ex Machina (3 1/2 stars on 0-5 scale) that no one else is mentioning: To pair Domhnall Gleeson with Alicia Vikander after they played Levin and Kitty in Joe Wright’s brilliant Anna Karenina is a real stroke of genius. […]