So The Artist is the front-runner for Best Picture this year. Saw it. Can’t say I agree in the least. It’s a story any movie goer familiar with the classics has seen before (can the silent film actor adjust to … Continue reading
Saw Red Tails today – the WW2 war movie about the Tuskegee Airmen (the black pilots). People who are cynics, who can’t handle war movie cliches, who hate rah-rah patriotism, and/or who just hate hate hate George Lucas will hate … Continue reading
Also saw the new Steven Soderberg action flick Haywire – starring the female MMA fighter (and American Gladiator, apparently) star Gena Carano. It’s very Bourne-like in that the fight sequences are very real/believable (partially because their star knows her way … Continue reading
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo… based on a long slog of a book I gave up on a third of the way through is a movie that’s too long for its story. It’s certainly watchable (when it’s not being graphically … Continue reading
We Bought a Zoo… they did. It was a cute movie. Charming and sweet. Matt Damon does his usual solid work. I’m not sure there’s much to say about this flick other than it’s well worth seeing. Score: 82
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol – best of the series and one of the best action movies of the year. Solid, solid movie that knows how to be a good action movie and to put an action scene together. Great set … Continue reading
So how is is that a kids CGI movie starring a little-known (in the US) character and his dog is somehow less silly and more in the spirit of Raiders of the Lost Ark than the whole of Kingdom of … Continue reading
Saw and really dug the movie Young Adult… Charlize Theron movie directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air) and written by Diablo Cody (Juno and Jennifer’s Body). It’s a really good, extremely well acted movie that’s not as … Continue reading
Saw the Clooney movie The Descendants… see it if you want a movie about real humans instead of people obeying a plot. Really good, well acted stuff. Score: 85
Everybody cutloose… not many 80s remakes are good, but the new Footloose was. Kudos to them. Some nice call backs to the original film and I really liked the intro credit sequence that’s a direct, but far less innocent and … Continue reading