[Writer's note: This review was originally written when Up was in theatrical release and my thoughts on it haven’t changed since then. I’m thrilled to see it nominated for both best animated feature and best picture at the Academy awards. When reading over this, I found it funny that I compared it...
From Paris With Love reeks of squandered potential. Charlie Wax could have been an iconic, entertaining character in his own right, and John Travolta’s performance is desperately trying to push the character in the direction of success, but something about the film’s script and direction really...
Shutter Island is a strange movie, but not in the way it intends to be: it’s strange because it’s bad. Martin Scorsese isn’t the critical and commercial king he is today because he makes movies that suck. But he’s managed the impossible here — he’s made a bad...
I can appreciate the extra-exhilaration an American citizen might experience when watching The Hurt Locker. While the film speaks for any human soul with a will to live, it remains incredibly patriotic and makes sure to put things like ‘the American way of life’ and ‘The American...
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The teaser trailer for District 9 is one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen. You know the one, where the totally weird and alien thing sits in an interview room, with its face blurred, and clicks and pops and grunts in response to some questions asked by off-screen humans. It hooked my attention...
The original Wolf Man was a noble tale of tragedy, fathers and sons, and fate, intertwined with some wacky gypsy woo-woo bullshit. Something about curses, pure hearts, and gypsies really didn’t bode well for our innocent protagonist Larry Talbot, and he ended up snuffing it by taking a silver...
Don’t let the title of this romantic comedy scare you, It’s Complicated is anything but. If you are to be scared of anything, I’d recommend caution for the (once again) unnecessary length you must endure to reach the end credits.
I hate to harp on the duration of films today (I have done...
As if Avatar‘s Box Office haul wasn’t evidence enough, here we have another fine specimen to file under the already expansive exhibition ”Reasons People Are Shit.” But thankfully, The Road joins these ranks deliberately, in thematic content and not by cultural reception. The...
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Mel Gibson used to be in Australian movies. Then he started doing big American action movies. He kept doing that for a little while, and then suddenly decided to try his hand at directing, finding success with his second effort in the chair with 1995′s Braveheart. Braveheart is brutal, emotional,...
