Saw the time-travel Joseph Gordon Levitt is Bruce Willis flick Looper… it’s a solid sf action flick with an interesting pacing, style, and some good thoughts (it’s a pretty smart film). It has a significant storytelling/structural problem in my book … Continue reading
Wes Anderson has a new movie out – Moonrise Kingdom. I stuck it with a needle and a stream of quirk came out. It’s a fun, odd little movie – which basically described Wes Anderson movies. So… par. I enjoyed … Continue reading
The movie John Carter has a boring, non-descriptive “could be anything” title is based on a series of pulp novels from the 1910s by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It looks like a dozen other big budget movies so the uninitiated might … 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
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
Loved it… neat action flick about a child assassin (who wouldn’t like that?!). Saroise Ronin plays the lead and she’s very solid. Great action scenes that are proof against all the idiot hyper-cut action flicks out there… and it’s also … Continue reading
Wow. So much better and uplifting and horrifying than I expected. This is the true story of the hiker who got trapped under a rock for 127 (derp) hours and how he survived. Not for the weak-stomached – the director … Continue reading
Monsters is a super-low-budget ($15,000) movie filmed on digital with consumer-grade FX. It’s about the results of a space probe that crashes in Mexico and the giant squid-monsters that appear after. The US and Mexican government have quarantined part of … Continue reading
Let Me In is the American remake of the very interesting Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In. This remake was ok but suffered from a few flaws… mainly in not getting the mood quite right. The Swedish version … Continue reading