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Too Slick For Its Own Good
Duplicity Review Duplicity is written and directed by Tony Gilroy, who also directed and wrote the almost undeniably good but somewhat slow Michael Clayton. I personally was lucky enough to interview Gilroy in person before he hit it big with Clayton and found him to be a pretty nice guy. And I’ve also enjoyed the…
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Utterly Immoral and Disgusting (not in the way you think)
The Last House on the Left (2009) Review There was another movie called The Last House on the Left in 1972 (directed by Wes Craven) and it was seriously messed up (Special Note: There Are Apparently Multiple Versions of the 1972 Film, some which may be even more graphic than what I saw). How messed…
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The Rock No More
Race to Witch Mountain Review I’m all for The Rock continuing to have a career. In every movie I’ve seen him in he’s acquited himself as well as you could hope for, and he does that again in Race to Witch Mountain. But here, as well as you could hope for means The Rock is…
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Watchmen Ultimately Gives Way To Its Own Hype
Watchmen Review (Movie) When it was announced Zack Synder, he of the relentlessly agressive Dawn of the Dead and 300, was directing the contemplative Watchmen there was understandable concern. Would Synder brings his love for action and visual razzle-dazzle to a graphic novel in which the characters largely stand around discussing life philosophies? Well, for…
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Belabored
Fired Up Review Fired Up is one of those movies that will try to trick you into thinking it’s actually decent. Because as viewers we are so accustomed to these dumb comedies, where the emotional undercurrent is forced and unnatural, that we kind of give them a pass for a) not connecting emotionally b)not connecting…
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Please Don’t See This Movie
Friday the 13th Review If you see this movie, you deserve it. So don’t complain about the following 13 things. 1. It’s Super-Dumb They just don’t care about how dumb it is. People literally say things like, “Let’s check it out!” before walking into some creepy abandoned place and dying. 2. The Kills Are Nothing…
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Pretty Classy For A Movie Called Donkey Punch
Donkey Punch Review Watching this movie it’s difficult to shake the sense that Director Oliver Blackburn is using this as a prom reel for himself. The thing is, for all the movie’s attention grabbing sex and drug use and title, it’s actually a fairly understated affair visually. It’s shot like a Calvin Klein ad by…
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Please Paul McGuigan, A Whole Good Movie
Push is an action movie that might entertain you for about 30 seconds at a time, but proves without good writing snazz is nothing. It’s about mutants on the run from shady government types, which isn’t exactly wild originality in the superhero genre. There are a lot of directors who do what I like to…
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Kindly Remove Your Brain and Simplify Your Morality
Taken Review This movie is mostly what you’d expect, standing out largely in ways that value brute violence over logic and moral/political responsibility. Liam Neeson plays an ex-spy in retirement whose daughter just happens to be kidnapped by Albanian sex traffickers who sell kidnapped tourists to vaguely Arab men. This should play very well in…