Steven Rea has been an Inquirer movie critic since 1992. He was born in London, raised in New York City, and has lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Iowa City, Iowa. His column, "On Movies," appears Sundays in Arts & Entertainment, his reviews appear in the Weekend section on Fridays, and his blog, On Movies Online, can be found here. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics.
He also curates the movie stars and bicycling photo blog, Rides A Bike.
Email Steven at srea@phillynews.com
- Secret Sex Lives of the Stars – Is This for Real?
Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus is not your typical toga-and-sandals Shakespeare. It's camouflage-and-combat boots Shakespeare, it's gritty, it's graffitied. Although the actor and first-time director is faithful to the Bard's text, setting his tale of usurpation and political upheaval in the city-state of Rome, it looks more like Bosnia, or Beirut.
- Secret Sex Lives of the Stars – Is This for Real?
You know how Jar-Jar Binks' eyes pop up out of his head?
That was from watching too many 3-D movies back on planet Naboo.
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2012 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation
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Steven Rea: Magic, whimsy, a fair amount of darkness and a wonderful mix of old-school cartooning and digital animation are on tap as the five 2012 Academy Award nominees for animated shorts are available for viewing on the big screen.
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Safe House
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Steven Rea: If Denzel Washington isn't the coolest dude out there, I don't know who is. In Safe House - a breakneck spy thriller set mainly in Cape Town, South Africa - Washington is Tobin Frost, a CIA ace gone rogue.
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The Vow
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Steven Rea: Ready-made for Valentine's Day, The Vow is, like the offerings at Cafe Mnemonic, a total sugar overload.
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'Pina' melds dance with 3-D - and her death
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Wim Wenders was two weeks away from the start date for his new film when his star - Philippina "Pina" Bausch, the German choreographer - died. She had cancer, and had been diagnosed only five days earlier.
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Declaration of War
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Steven Rea: France's official entry in the 2012 Academy Award foreign-language competition (alas, it didn't make the final cut) and a hit at last year's Cannes fest, Valérie Donzelli's Declaration of War deals with issues that may scare audiences away.
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Chronicle
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Steven Rea: This is how the young Clark Kent must have felt. If Clark Kent had been on Facebook. Chronicle, a thrillingly inventive take on an old genre, is a sobering story about damaged psyches.
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The Innkeepers
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Steven Rea: Right from the get-go in The Innkeepers, with its trembling title credits, creepy music, and those sepia-toned snaps of the Connecticut hostelry down through the decades, you know there are going to be angry ghosts to reckon with here.
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The Grey
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Steven Rea: Nobody can do mock Shakespeare with as much gravitas and gloomy portent as Liam Neeson.
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Albert Nobbs
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Steven Rea: There's a bit of Downton Abbey about Albert Nobbs.
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Miss Bala
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Steven Rea: A masterfully photographed and edited look at the carnage and chaos of the Mexican drug wars, Miss Bala is a crime thriller that pivots around this shell-shocked victim.
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