Articles by Joseph Belanger

The Boys Are Back

Scott Hicks

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2009

When it comes to raising children, the predominant way of thinking is that young boys and girls need their mothers. The offshoot of that lo...

The Damned United

Tom Hooper

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2009

I am not a soccer fan. Therefore, I know nothing about its history or the name of anyone who might be considered historically important to...

Taking Woodstock

Ang Lee

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2009

Forty years have passed since the little town of Bethel, NY took in over 500,000 hopped-up hippies and, after three crazy days, became the...

The Time Traveler's Wife

Robert Schwentke

PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2009

Time travel is certainly not an easy concept to buy into. There are a number of theories that can make some plausible sense if explained an...

Paper Heart

Nicholas Jasenovec

PUBLISHED Aug 6, 2009

In the first few moments of this inevitably quirky romantic mockumentary (there's a new sub-genre for you), musician/writer/comedian/actres...

Midnight Express (Blu-Ray)

Alan Parker

PUBLISHED Jul 15, 2009

Most often, when venturing into cinema's past, I am inexplicably hesitant but then mostly surprised by what I've been missing. Midnight Exp...

Family Guy: Volume Seven

PUBLISHED Jun 30, 2009

I love Family Guy but I am not a fanatic; I could not list every occurrence where modern father figure, Peter Griffin, loses his train of t...

American Dad Volume 4

PUBLISHED May 28, 2009

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane's second child, American Dad, has never gotten its due. It's one thing to consistently trail your big br...