Vaughn On Movies – The World's Toughest Movie Critic™

Predictions for the 2010 Academy Awards.

Alice Kingsley (Mia Wasikowska) is, unbeknownst to her, on her way to her engagement party. Turns out this is the famous Alice who 13 years earlier ventured in to Wonderland. Surely there is a creative reason to pull her back into the zany world. Nope, she merely felt the urge to chase a rabbit who [...]

The opening scene shows small town America, Ogden Marsh, engulfed in a fiery blaze. This is a small town with apple pie values. How did it get this way? The answer is uncovered by David, (Timothy Olyphant) the town’s sheriff. On a typical day the citizens gather ‘round the bases. One day the town drunk [...]

Last week I watched Bijitâ Q (Visitor Q), and I didn’t review it. I factored in the rate at which my German grandmother visits the site with the level of depraving schlock captured by the film. That’s how I came to my conclusion. I wanted to watch another Taskashi Miike film though and that’s how [...]

A 1950s ward for the criminally insane isn’t a pleasantry for anyone. The terror behind the walls has a mystique to the public. It’s as though unspeakable acts of torture can exist within the confines of padded rooms so long as the public never witnesses first hand. The isolation, or in the case of Martin [...]

Remakes are not your friend. Regardless, they are an inevitable fact of entertainment these days. I won’t go as far as to say that it’s possible to do them right, but there are circumstances that make them easier to accept. For the 2010 version of The Wolfman you know the idea is to update a [...]

From director Kathryn Bigelow comes The Hurt Locker, a movie of nail biting suspense. Following a bomb disposal team through Iraq in 2004 this movie has the right formula to spur controversy through naïve resentment or romanticizing the realities of battle, but it strikes me as more of a fair portrayal than playing on political [...]