Upper East Side Film

Insightful Perspectives on Upper East Side Movies

Saturday, May 30, 2009

The Brothers Bloom

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Adrian Brody and Mark Ruffalo star as con artist brothers in this low key quirky comedy. The basic idea is a familiar one, one brother w...
Monday, May 25, 2009

Terminator:Salvation

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Director McG reboots the system with this 4th entry in the Terminator series. Christian Bale stars as John Conner and Anton Yelchin co-sta...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

Night At The Museum 2: Battle For The Smithsonian

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Some fun special effects and a perky job of acting by Amy Adams (as Amelia Earhart) save this overblown sequel from total disaster. As u...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

The Soloist

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The trailer for this film has been in theaters for almost a year. When a picture's been on the shelf that long, you have to approa...
Sunday, May 10, 2009

Star Trek

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Simply awesome! Director J.J. Abrams and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman deliver a terrific film completely reenergizing the Sta...
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Wolverine

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All style and little substance, this X-Men origin story is strictly for Hugh Jackman fans or hard core X-Men fanatics. Mr. Jackman doe...
Sunday, May 03, 2009

State of Play

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Featuring a pedigree cast, this is a pretty enjoyable thriller that may remind some of the paranoid political thrillers of the '70s...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Adventureland

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Fading quickly from theaters is the new coming of age comedy, "Adventureland". This film had "summer flick" written ...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Sugar

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Baseball movies have been around almost as long as the game itself. Always filled with emotion, they never fail to bring a tear o...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

Knowing

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You "know" it's Spring when films like this can stay in the top 5 for weeks. "Knowing" is a weak script thrown in...
Thursday, April 09, 2009

Sunshine Cleaning

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"Sunshine Cleaning" may remind you at first, of "Little Miss Sunshine". Alan Arkin plays a very similar character...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

The Great Buck Howard

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Loosely based on the "amazing" Kreskin, a famous mentalist from the '60 & '70's, "Buck Howard" is ...

Duplicity

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Writer/Director Tony Gilroy newest effort is a cross between his own "Michael Clayton", "Ocean's 11", and any Bourne...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Watchmen

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An extremely different and very cool "superhero" movie. I understand fans of the graphic novel have issues with the film but...
Sunday, March 08, 2009

Gomorrah

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A pseudo documentary about the criminal activities of the Camora, street level mafia gangs that populate the area around Naples, Italy...

The International

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With the exception of a exciting shoot out in a NY icon, this film is a "Bourne" clone without the action. Clive ...

The Jonas Brothers: 3D Concert Experience

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And what an experience it is. The live concert was fun even if I couldn't understand any of the words above the screaming girls. ...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

Defiance

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From writer/director Edward Zwick, comes this harrowing true story of a group of Jews that hid in the forests of Poland during WWII....
Sunday, February 15, 2009

Coraline

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Brilliant stop motion animation brings Neil Gailman's book to the screen. The film is being shown in 3D at most theaters and it is a vis...
Saturday, February 07, 2009

Wendy & Lucy

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Co-written and directed by Kelly Reichardt, "Wendy & Lucy" is a simple, yet poignant story of hardship in America t...
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