Posted in Drama, Reader's Choice, tagged Comedy, Drama, Drumline, Nick Cannon on November 4, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Nick Cannon, please don’t take yourself so seriously.
Drumline isn’t actually half bad. And speaking as a former band nerd, the marching bands are pretty spot on.
Nick Cannon plays Devon, a drummer who goes to an Atlanta college and joins the marching band. He’s the worst kind of cocky as he’s so arrogant he can barely [...]
Posted in Drama, Netflix on September 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
If you’re expecting some sort of resolution or answers to the problems Woody Allen gives his characters, don’t hold your breath.
Vicky and Cristina are two Americans headed to Barcelona for a two month vacation. Impulsive, romantic Cristina and level-headed pragmatist Vicky are hosted by some distant family members cooped up in town. Vicky has a [...]
Posted in Action, Drama, Movies In General on August 20, 2009 | 9 Comments »
To celebrate the release of the long awaited Inglourious Basterds on Friday, I had planned to do a whole week of Tarantino flicks (and still do), only to have some sort of nasty shoulder problem flare up Sunday and continue through Tuesday. So we’re picking up today and I’ll be picking up the rest [...]
Posted in Action, Drama, Netflix, Review on May 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Three words: Disfigured Liam Neeson.
Neeson plays Peyton Westlake, a scientist working on an artificial skin to help burn victims. It’s got one problem: it can’t survive more than 99 minutes in direct light, but functions perfectly in the dark. Other than this stumbling block, his life is moving along well: he’s got a great girlfriend, [...]
Posted in Comedy, Drama, Netflix, Review on April 26, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Lars (Ryan Gosling) is a guy who is lacking in the social skills department. He lives in a small town where his place of residence is the guesthouse of his family’s property. His brother Gus and sister-in-law Karen live in the main house. He works a boring job and goes to church, but his painful [...]
Posted in Drama, Netflix, Review on April 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Yes, I see you in this movie, Daniel Day-Lewis.
Gerry Conlon is a thief and general ne’er-do-well in Belfast, Ireland. His much more law-abiding family ships him off to London with the hope he’ll reform his ways and straighten up. Instead, Conlon and his friend fall in with a commune of hippies, stirring up jealousy and [...]
Posted in Drama, Netflix, Review on April 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Damien O’Donovan is mild-mannered young doctor from County Cork, Ireland. Living in 1920’s Ireland is no picnic as the opening of the film demonstrates. Damien and friends are out playing a variation of stickball when a squad of Black and Tans arrives. They begin to beat and humiliate the assembled folks by forcing the men [...]
Posted in Action, Drama on March 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The main problem with Watchmen is that no matter what anyone did, no matter who made this film, it would never live up to the graphic novel. Watchmen the novel is so dear to so many people and so solid a work in its own right that no cinematic treatment would leave people satisfied.
Let’s go [...]
Posted in Action, Drama, Netflix, Reader's Choice on January 21, 2009 | 26 Comments »
Man, this movie is depressing.
Depressingly bad, that is.
I really feel terrible for Al Pacino. He’s had a fairly illustrious, remarkable cinematic career. He’s made some knockout films; he’s made some bad ones, yes, but when you think of Al Pacino, you think of The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico. Someone as storied as Al [...]
Posted in Drama, Reader's Choice on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Number 23 is bad because it’s boring and because it uses an ineffectual ruse – the premise of bad things happening adding up to or involving the number 23 – to try and trick the viewer from the final outcome.
Also, weighing a movie like this on Jim Carrey is a big mistake and a [...]
