Effie Gray (opens in Cleveland April 3rd exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre)

[EFFIE GRAY opens in Cleveland on Friday April 3rd exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre.]

Review by Milan Paurich

Since I AM SAM, in which she played the preternaturally mature daughter of a mentally retarded parent (Sean Penn), Dakota Fanning has been cast—sometimes romantically, sometimes not—opposite older men. There was Denzel Washington shielding her from harm in MAN ON FIRE, the backwoods rapist who violently stole her pre-pubescent virginity in HOUNDDOG, Boyd Holbrook in VERY GOOD GIRLS, and, most recently, Kevin Kline’s dissipated Errol Flynn opposite Fanning’s jail bait-y Beverly Aadland in THE LAST OF ROBIN HOOD.

The Last of Robin Hood (opens in Cleveland September 5th at the Cedar Lee and Capitol Theatres)

[THE LAST OF ROBIN HOOD opens in Cleveland on Friday September 5th at the Cedar Lee Theatre and the Capitol Theatre.]

Review by Bob Ignizio

It's doubtful there was a need for a film about Errol Flynn's late in life fling with teenage aspiring actress Beverly Aadland, but nonetheless we have just that in THE LAST OF ROBIN HOOD. As the film starts, Flynn (Kevin Kline) is already dead and Beverly (Dakota Fanning) is being bombarded with questions from reporters. The pressure proves to much, and the young girl faints. Or is it all a staged performance orchestrated by Beverly's mother, Florence (Susan Sarandon)? Perhaps flashing back in time will shed some light.

The Motel Life (now on video)

Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.

I promised myself in writing this review I wouldn't make any gratuitous Robin Williams references. For many reasons. (1) It's somewhat disrespectful to the late entertainer and his bereaved family - not to mention that everyone else is doing it. (2) For some odd reason, this review may be re-posted or re-read at some point in the future, when the suicide of Williams is no longer a front-page headline, and would only come across as a sicko non-sequitur, and (3) if you haven't learned from reading me yet that showbiz ruins lives and destroys people, you'll never learn.

Also, I don't want to be tempted to make my Robin-Williams-suicide-connected-to-Cleveland wisecrack. That one is just bad taste, even by my lowly standards.

Besides, you get me started on the topic, I'll never stop. So let's just pretend you've just scrolled down about 40 paragraphs of me or so riffing about Robin Williams and suicide. Now you finally get to the movie review. There, see? Think of the time and negative thoughts towards myself I just saved you.