Christopher Nolan has once again proved he is a very, very talented director. There’s absolutely no denying it after such hits as Batman Begins, Memento, The Dark Night, and now Inception in a short, thirteen year career. Inception is another installation in his efforts to make the ordinary, extraordinary. A year ago, Nolan mezmerized the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Ellen Page'
Inception
July 17th, 2010 12 Comments
Tags: Christopher Nolan · Cillian Murphy · Ellen Page · Inception · Joseph Gordon-Leavitt · Ken Watanabe · Leonardo DiCaprio · Marion Cotillard · Tom Hardy
An American Crime
March 21st, 2009 3 Comments
Remember that sinking feeling in the spring of 2005, when it was announced that Michael Bay would be directing Transformers? The world’s population of cinema buffs took one big collective sigh and gave up on the hopes of a worthy homage to one of the most beloved toys of the eighties. It’s a perfect example of how [...]
Tags: An American Crime · Bradley Whitford · Catherine Keener · Ellen Page · Irene Turner · James Franco · Tommy O'Haver
The Tracey Fragments
September 12th, 2008 No Comments
This movie is pretentious as all get out. The only thing it was able to force me to emote was anger. If that was the intent, well done director Bruce McDonald (Queer as Folk), you made me furious. Seriously, there’s nothing redemptive in this artsy-for-sake-of-being-artsy bullshit. The Tracey Fragments is filmed all ‘stream of consciousness’ [...]
Tags: Bruce McDonald · Ellen Page · The Tracey Fragments
Smart People
September 4th, 2008 4 Comments
Smart People is the story of a self-congratulatory family of elitist, self-proclaimed intelligentsia that lives back east. The children, who all have serious issues thanks to poor parenting, attend a prestigious school where the father is a withdrawn, washed-up professor–What? What’s that you say? You’ve heard this story before and it was done much better? [...]
Tags: Dennis Quaid · Ellen Page · Film review · Mark Poirier · Noam Murro · Sarah Jessica Parker · Smart People · Thomas Haden Church
