Matthew Lickona
Matthew Lickona contributes movie reviews, Crush wine reviews, and is the author of Swimming with Scapulars. He also contributes to the Reader's Big Screen movie blog, and the Feast! blog.
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Reviews!
Friday, Feb. 3, 2012
 David Elliott [paints it grey][1] this week. ...
Review: Chronicle
Friday, Feb. 3, 2012
Four-word review of *Chronicle*: Screw you, Spider-Man. You ...
#HungerGames50: I AM SO CONFLICTED RIGHT NOW
Friday, Feb. 3, 2012
*Why I'll be seeing this movie.* Look, hooray ...
Trailer Reviews: Nicolas Cage Gets Paid
Monday, Jan. 30, 2012
Nicolas Cage has had his share of [financial ...
Trailer Reviews: Controlled Cinematic Haiku
Monday, Jan. 30, 2012
Trailers these days are sometimes like shortened forms ...
This Should Be Interesting
Friday, Jan. 27, 2012
Lessee, now...Steven Spielberg [is reported][1] to be close ...
Day 3 of the San Diego Black Film Festival's Big 8
Friday, Jan. 27, 2012
(Day 3 of the [San Diego Black Film ...
Day 2 of the San Diego Black Film Festival's Big 8
Friday, Jan. 27, 2012
My invitation to the [San Diego Black Film ...
Specialty of the House: Searsucker Entree
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012
*A* Feast! *feature in which your humble correspondent ...
Specialty of the House: Searsucker
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012
*A* Feast! *feature in which your humble correspondent ...
Black-Spotting the Oscars
Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012
Well, [Mr. Marks was his usual wonderfully grumpy ...
Specialty of the House: Quality Social
Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012
*A *Feast!* feature in which your humble correspondent ...
More "Meet the New Hollywood, Same as the Old Hollywood"
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012
We've done this before, with [Shark Night][1] and ...
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You Have To Know Yourself
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
“This is my Harley,” says Junior with pride. He hovers over the motorized kiddie motorcycle, which sits in the living room of Chris and Laura’s Santee home. Junior is five; ...
Joy to the Screen
Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011
Scott: The first inkling that Christmas was not a holiday for Hebrews came from a neighbor kid, the fine Aryan specimen Timothy Murphy: “My Uncle Roy says Jews celebrate Christmas ...
Movie Review: Shame, London Boulevard, New Year's Eve
Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011
In the early moments of Shame, we learn that sex addict Brandon Sullivan (Michael Fassbender) has a huge member, as if nature was instructing him in the way he ought ...
Movie Review: 50/50, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, My Afternoons with Margueritte, and Shut Up Little Man!
Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011
A slice-of-life indie about a young man facing cancer, overstuffed with Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Up in the Air’s Anna Kendrick as the world’s worst beginning therapist, and Anjelica Huston. ...
Captain America Gets Ready to Avenge
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
In 1991, director Joe Johnston brought us The Rocketeer, in which a decent All-American guy chances upon the means to become a superhero. This enables him to take on the ...
Hangover II: Bigger, Louder, Dumber
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
The Hangover Part II At one point in The Hangover Part II , Zach Galifianakis puts a bottle beneath the robes of an elderly Buddhist monk as they ride together ...
Botrytis? Here?
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
"But this really is Cailles en Sarcophage!” — General Lorens Lowenhielm, Babette’s Feast The general is shocked when he says this. He is shocked because he has just finished describing ...
The Conspirator: It’s 1865
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The Conspirator “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” said philosopher George Santayana. This saying has spawned many variants, including, now, director Robert Redford’s: “Those who ...
The Adjustment Bureau’s Metaphysical Muddle
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The Adjustment Bureau For everyone who couldn’t get enough of the Matt Damon metaphysical muddle in Hereafter, here’s a second helping, the chief lesson of which seems to be: it’s ...
Cat Snip
Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011
“Is the baby outside?” asks my wife, alarm bubbling up through her groggy vowels. It’s summer, the middle of the night. We’re sleeping with the windows open, which is why ...
