Posted in Comedy, Netflix, Reader's Choice, Review, tagged Carol Burnett, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Michael Caine, Noises Off! on July 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I realize that Kevin is currently on vacation, but hey, let’s do this anyways.
Noises Off! is a movie within a play. We start off with the cast and director preparing for the very first show of a comedic play that will be touring, a play that starts out well but rapidly becomes tiresome due to [...]
Posted in Mockery, Movies In General, tagged Twilight, Twilight movie on July 30, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I see a lot of confusion in the movie blogosphere about the upcoming movie Twilight, based off of the popular book series by Stephenie Meyer. Twilight fans are a hardcore little group, and the amount of internet buzz they’ve helped generate for the movie is insane. But…your rank and file movie [...]
Posted in Drama, Netflix, Reader's Choice, Review, Romance, tagged Princess Raccoon, Zhang Ziyi on July 29, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Somewhere, J.D.’s laughing at me, I feel fairly sure.
Okay, I get the premise of this film. Princess Raccoon is actually a raccoon spirit trapped in a human body who falls in love with a human prince with typically dramatic results. It’s a fairy tale!
It’s got singing and dancing and huge musical numbers. It feels a [...]
Posted in Movies In General, tagged Gabriel Byrne, Vincent Cassel, John Cusack, Karl Urban, Gaspard Ulliel, Alan Rickman, Ron Livingston on July 28, 2008 | 20 Comments »
Gentlemen, I apologize profusely. Your condolence cards for being left off of the first post are in the mail and shall be arriving shortly.
JOHN CUSACK - Even with Must Love Dogs and crap of that ilk, I still love Cusack. Mainly for Grosse Pointe Blank and things of that nature. I always feel iffy on [...]
Posted in Movies In General, tagged Guys and Dolls, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Nightmare on Elm Street, Suspiria, Die Hard, Aliens, Ghostbusters, The Jerk, Cube, The Fifth Element, Hunt For Red October, Jurassic Park on July 27, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Soooo, my dearests, Piper over at Lazy Eye Theatre (I seem to be mentioning Piper quite a bit lately, no?) tagged me for the 12 Movies Meme, where the rules are as follows:
1) Choose 12 Films to be featured. They could be random selections or part of a greater theme. Whatever you want.
2) Explain why [...]
Posted in Comedy, Netflix, Review, tagged Ben Stiller, Geoffrey Rush, Greg Kinnear, Janeane Garofalo, Mystery Men on July 24, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Soooooo, Piper over at Lazy Eye Theatre had this fantabulous post about how some movies? Best left to the vague recesses of your memory, where you treasure them fondly and gloss over the crap parts.
For me, Mystery Men is one of those movies.
I remember seeing Mystery Men when it first hit DVD and really enjoying [...]
Posted in Movies In General, tagged Cillian Murphy, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Gary Oldman, Konstantin Khabensky, Sean Bean, Christian Bale, Adrien Brody, George Clooney, Gerard Butler, Henry Rollins, Hugh Laurie, James Spader, Johnny Depp, Liam Neeson, Sam Neill, Shia LaBoeuf, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Viggo Mortensen on July 23, 2008 | 24 Comments »
You know, I’m all for liking actors who are immensely talented because they’re immensely talented…but every so often, you just have to go with the gut reaction, “Mmm, pretty”. It’s not reasonable, sure, but it’s part of why some actors are cast. And if you’re me, you go for the ones that everyone else is [...]
Posted in Comedy, Drama, Netflix, Review, tagged Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamyn, Shea Whigham, Wristcutters: A Love Story on July 23, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Okay, you need to see this movie, if you haven’t already.
Wristcutters: A Love Story is really the story of Zia (Patrick Fugit) and his quest to find his girlfriend in the afterlife. All suicide victims go to a special afterlife, a purgatory of sorts, where no one smiles, everything is old and run down and [...]
Posted in Drama, Netflix, Review, tagged Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon on July 22, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Al Pacino kills it in this movie.
Al Pacino plays Sonny, a down on his luck kind of guy who feels pulled in eighty different directions and who decides his best course of action is to rob a bank. Of course, his plans go awry and his “perfect” robbery quickly turns into a siege, where Sonny [...]
Posted in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, tagged The Devil's Advocate, Youngblood, Johnny Mnemonic, Point Break, A Walk in the Clouds, Chain Reaction, Bill and Ted's Excellent Advenutre, The Matrix, Speed, Keanu Reeves on July 21, 2008 | 20 Comments »
Okay, so it’s no secret that I have crazy love for Keanu Reeves. Yes, I know he’s not a good actor, but there’s always been something about him that’s struck me as earnest and down to earth, and I kinda like that. Plus, for someone who doesn’t have that much talent, he seems to work [...]
