The Road is one heck of a depressing movie. Turns out that’ll happen in a fairly realistic depiction of the end of the world. The visuals (the grey, dreary visuals) of this mysterious end time was very well done and … Continue reading
Taken on its own merits, the remake of Clash of the Titans is a decent movie. It looks good, the action is pretty good, and then it ends. Damned by feint praise, sure. It’s not a BAD movie and the … Continue reading
Checked out the new remake of Alice in Wonderland – I wasn’t sure if I was going to go see it but the reviews have been decent enough so I gave it a shot. The movie was pretty good. I … Continue reading
So I went to see The Wolfman… and, you know, for as much practical makeup as they appeared to use for the Wolfman, they had CGI bear and elk for close-up work… Anyhoo, I didn’t much like this movie. It … Continue reading
If we’re talking borrowing from other post apocalyptic franchises, Book of Eli is more Fallout than Road Warrior – it’s about scrounging out a life, looting, searching, surviving – encounters with waste wanderers and small craphole towns trying to create … Continue reading
So every 12 year old girls in Ohio and I went to see the new Twilight flick New Moon… and the audible gasps over various half-naked men was somewhere between amusing and creepy… but, yeah, it’s a serviceable sequel without … Continue reading
Inglourious Basterds – the new Quentin Tarrentino flick… The trailers and other ads are lies – this is not an action flick. This is a 2+ hr talkfest… which works for me. The dialogue is very much a fencing match … Continue reading
I Love You, Beth Cooper is a teen comedy about a valedictorian who gets up on stage during commencement and declares that he loves Beth Cooper – the head cheerleader who doesn’t know he exists … and then bashes a … Continue reading
This movie is a freaky deaky, audience-eating, gleeful, mad-ass, freak-out trash and it knows and revels in it. It takes pigs-blood baths in how much fun it’s having at being just pure unadulterated, unapologetic b-movie trash. But a B movie … Continue reading
Up is a seriously wonderful, wonderful, charming and sad movie. There hasn’t been anything – including in this movie – that has made me happier than the first 10 minutes. It’s a virtuoso sequence told through music – it’s everything … Continue reading