The latest film from the Wachowski Brothers started out looking it was case of style instead of substance. The film looked neat (with a very green-screened world that made the film look like a live-action cartoon), however the first half hour of the film was a huge jumble of flashback interspersed with a single race. […]
While some may consider Iron Man a secondary Marvel hero, I was already a fan thanks to an animated series from the mid-90s. This was definitely the most star-studded of the Marvel comic adaptations and that probably really helped the film. This film was a very fun ride from beginning to end and it really
I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the first film. Especially when I saw the movie theatre I regularly go to shown on screen. The sequel is once again a racially charged stoner comedy. However, this time, instead of the simple goal of trying to locate a burger joint, the politically themes are turned way
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This film comes about a little under 11 months after my only other experience with star Jason Segel (that being Knocked Up). He wasn’t really too much of a stand-out in the movie, so it was a little risky pushing him into the lead (even though that move worked for Seth Rogen in last year’s
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Smart People features Dennis Quaid as a college professor, who is trying to get over the recent death of his wife, while trying to manage a new relationship with a doctor (played by Sarah Jessica Parker). He also has to learn to get along with his family including his adopted brother (Thomas Haden Church) and
Today I spent my birthday going to the IMAX theatre to see the latest in the long line of Rolling Stone concert films directed by none other by Martin Scorsese. For a concert film, I think the Rolling Stones have had better ones (and I’ll talk about one in next week’s Classic Thoughts). However, I
Leatherheads is film that is both a sports movies and a homage to the screwball comedies from the 1940s, complete with fast-talking dialogue and sexual innuendo. It’s also one of the funnier films I’ve seen this year. The only thing missing from this film is that is should have been shown in black and white,
Simon Pegg has really started to make a name for himself, since the release of Shaun of the Dead back in 2004. This film is his first staring role without his usual collaborators, writer/director, Edgar Wright and, co-star, Nick Frost. For the first 20 minutes or so, I was not sure if this David Schwimmer-directed
Funny Games is not an entertaining film. I thought that I will make that clear. However, I will also say that I thought it was a very good film. It’s a horror film and it’s a shot-for-shot remake of an Austrian film of the same name by the same director. It’s a highly disturbing film.
I’ve probably said this a million times by now, but Doomsday is what you get when you take films such as 28 Days Later, The Road Warrior, The Warriors, and Escape from New York and combine them with a dash of Excalibur. So yeah, the film is not that original and that is probably its
