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 The children, who all have serious issues thanks to poor parenting, attend a prestigious school where the father is a withdrawn, washed-up professor–What?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? [...]
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Smart People
September 4th, 2008 4 Comments
Tags: Dennis Quaid · Ellen Page · Film review · Mark Poirier · Noam Murro · Sarah Jessica Parker · Smart People · Thomas Haden Church
Rushmore
August 29th, 2008 6 Comments
Sometimes mixing three of my favorite things isn’t a good idea. For example: going to movies, sleeping, and toast: not a good combination. But in the case of Rushmore, it worked really well. Wes Anderson, Bill Murray, and Jason Schwartzman mix real nice.
Having finally watched this film, I’ve now exposed myself [...]
Tags: Bill Murray · Film review · Jason Schwartzman · Olivia Williams · Rushmore · Sophia Coppola · Wes Anderson
The Dead Girl
August 16th, 2008 1 Comment
I don’t know why, but as I perused the aisles of Blockbuster the other night (aisles that I have practically memorized), this DVD just happened to catch my eye. I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s a subconscious fascination with the morbid. Anyway, I picked up The Dead Girl and was astounded at the list of [...]
Tags: Brittany Murphy · Film review · Giovanni Ribisi · James Franco · Josh Brolin · Karen Moncrieff · Marcia Gay Harden · The Dead Girl · Toni Collette
Blindness
July 29th, 2008 2 Comments
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 [...]
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
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
