The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a visually stunning fantasy film starring Brad Pitt, is a must-watch before it leaves ...
On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams (nee Fuller) is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline ...
"Benjamin Button" represents a richly satisfying serving of deep-dish Hollywood storytelling. Due to its history-spanning structure, blank-page title character and technical sleight of hand, the film ...
David Fincher raises expectations. If nothing else, he's one of the best technical filmmakers working today, and he's also a man who commits to a number of projects but tends to put a film out every ...
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is that rare thing: a truly magical movie. And as such, it’s difficult to find the right way to convey its spell in words. If I tell you that it’s a movie about ...
In last year’s thriller “Zodiac,” David Fincher pulled back the curtain on what is possible when a front-rank director applies the right technology in the right way. In telling the story of the ...
The button is a perfect symbol for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Simple and old-fashioned, yet somehow timeless. None of the cheap shortcuts of the zipper or – shudder – Velcro. Take one of ...
Based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button concerns itself with the life of an individual who ages in reverse. Starting from birth as a shriveled old man to his ...
Ever since 1996 -- when I'd seen Apollo 13, Babe, Sense And Sensibility and, yes, even Il Postino only to watch Braveheart win the Oscar -- I've seen every Best Picture nominee before the ceremony.
Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. The whole first section of the film is a bit like warmed-over Big Fish—from the framing story with the daughter (Julia Ormond) ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald never had much success when he tried to parlay his literary cache into a Hollywood screenwriting career, but with Eric Roth's (Forrest Gump) superb adaptation of the author's 1922 ...