Going to see X-Piles wasn’t a complete waste of time. Well, the 100 minutes of tense music, enthusiastic Mulder and perpetually skeptical Scully was a waste of time, but the trailers before hand provided some very interesting prospects for the near future. Of which the most promising is Blindness.
This movie seems to have everything going [...]
Entries from July 29th, 2008
Blindness
July 29th, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: Blindness · Danny Glover · Fernando Meirelles · Film review · Gail Garcia Bernal · Jose Saramago · Julianne Moore · Mark Ruffalo · Sandra Oh
X-Piles – I Just Didn’t Believe
July 28th, 2008 3 Comments
It’s hard to review a film you completely didn’t care about in the first place. I never watched the TV series, and I think I caught about 85% of the first film on TBS. If truth be told, I only watched this movie because I had a short window of time that needed to be filled [...]
Tags: Chris Carter · David Duchovny · Film review · Gillian Anderson · X-Files: I Want To Believe
Tuesday Meme…Films
July 22nd, 2008 8 Comments
This is NOT a MySpace survey, or anything similar. This is simply a number of questions that will help you understand my movie choices and reviews. Any resemblance to a networking website chain-mail survey is purely coincidental.
Name a movie you’ve been meaning to see forever: The Graduate is definitely one I’ve been meaning to check [...]
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The Dark Knight
July 20th, 2008 1 Comment
There’s not really much left to say about ‘The Dark Knight.’ It was a fantastic film. But everybody knows that. One visit to TDK Rottentomatoes page will reveal critic after critic falling all over themselves to praise this film almost to no end, calling it a classic, comparing it to Scorsese’s ‘The Departed, and De [...]
Tags: Aaron Eckhart · Christian Bale · Christopher Nolan · Film review · Heath Ledger · Maggie Gyllenhaal · Michael Caine
Hancock…
July 18th, 2008 5 Comments
Now, I know a lot of people really like Will Smith. Who wouldn’t, with mega rap hits like ‘Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It,’ and fan pleasing blockbusters like ’MIB 2.’ But it seems to me that he has a bit of a Messiah complex. And his big studio cronies will pretty much do whatever he wants [...]
Tags: Charlize Theron · Director: Peter Berg · Hancock · Jason Bateman · Will Smith
WALL-E
July 14th, 2008 1 Comment
God knows I really wish I remember watching this film. As it were, I can’t remember very well since I had just had surgery and was enjoying (perhaps a little too much) my oxycodone prescription when I saw ‘WALL-E.’
Maybe it’s for the best as I’m usually a naysayer when it comes to animated films. I [...]
From the Library: Enduring Love
July 4th, 2008 2 Comments
Occasionally I will be reviewing films from my DVD library. This–is the first.
‘Enduring Love’ is one of those movies that will stay with you long after the credits finish rolling. This is in large part thanks, no doubt, to Ian McEwan, the author of the book from which this film is adapted. Anyone familiar [...]
Tags: Bill Nighy · Daniel Craig · Roger Michell · Samantha Morton
The Visitor
July 2nd, 2008 1 Comment
It’s difficult to summarize ‘The Visitor.’ When you say it’s about a lonely college professor learning to play the drums, it sounds like lame. When you say it’s about immigrants and their plight, it sounds lame. Yet ‘The Visitor’ is anything but lame.
This film is written and directed by ‘The Wire’s’ Thomas McCarthy, and [...]
Tags: Richard Jenkins · The Visitor · Thomas McCarthy
My Blueberry Nights
July 1st, 2008 1 Comment
Released today on DVD is the film, ‘My Blueberry Nights.’ This is the first feature length English-feature film of Chinese director Kar Wai Wong. The film begins by quickly introducing us to Elizabeth (Norah Jones), our quiet, soul-searching protagonist and her cheating boyfriend. Jaded by the city that served as the backdrop of her [...]
Tags: Jude Law · Kar Wai Wong · My Blueberry Nights · Natalie Portman · Norah Jones · Rachel Weisz
