≡ Category: Action, Drama, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time, Romance, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Romance/ Martial Arts
Director: Various
Year: 2012
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
My wife prefers television to movies, so I keep a lookout for anything that she might enjoy that won’t drive me completely nuts. Generally, she likes action, comedy, and anything that won’t make her think too hard or shake her emotional equilibrium. […]
≡ Category: Action, Fantasy, Mainstream, Romance, Science Fiction, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Fantasy/ Science Fiction/ Romance/ Action/ Mainstream
Director: Duncan Jones
Year: 2011
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Source Code starts out with a premise which is so intrinsically flawed that there was no way it could have fully succeeded.
A terrorist has blown up a commuter train bound for Chicago. The government has reason to believe that this […]
≡ Category: Drama, Recommended, Romance, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Romance
Director: Francis Lawrence
Year: 2011
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In some ways, Water For Elephants is a very old-fashioned movie, much like it’s subject.
It’s a story about human beings, with no real subtext, and no explicit violence or special effects to distract the audience, and that’s okay.
It’s the middle of the Great […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Fantasy, Recommended, Romance, Satire, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy/ Satire/ Romance/ Fantasy
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2011
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Midnight In Paris is a slight but amusing effort from Woody Allen. It gets extra points for avoiding Woody’s usual pitfall of making all of the characters sound like versions of himself. For a change, he has written characters who are very […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Essential, Romance, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1955
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Most movies date poorly. Go back to the early 70s and try to watch a film like, oh, I dunno, Prime Cut with Gene Hackman and Lee Marvin. It can be tough sledding.
On the other hand, modern audiences can still enjoy Citizen Kane, […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Not Worth Your Time, Romance, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Romance/ Comedy
Director: Ivan Reitman
Year: 2011
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Here’s a film that exhibits an all too common tendency in modern Hollywood films. The writers, in this case Elizabeth Meriwether and Michael Samonek, have no clue about real people behave or talk. Very little in No Strings Attached rings true.
Emma (Natalie Portman) and […]
≡ Category: Action, Highly Recommended, Romance, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Romance
Director: Burt Reynolds
Year: 1981
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
What is a real man?
According to Sharky’s Machine, it’s someone who has Cro-Magnon ideas about women, is protective of them, is willing to get his fists bloody (and sometimes enjoys it), drinks beer instead of wine, doesn’t scream when he’s tortured, and is […]
≡ Category: Essential, Fantasy, Romance, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Romance/ Fantasy/ Suspense
Director: George Nolfi
Year: 2011
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
It’s difficult to come up with more than a handful of movies that explore the relationship between (the Christian) God’s omnipotence, his plan, free will, and the problem of evil. There’s Bruce Almighty, but it mostly functions as an Christian apologia, a way […]
≡ Category: Action, Romance, Suspense, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/Suspense/Romance
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Year: 2010
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Not long ago, I reviewed the French movie The Tourist is based on, Anthony Zimmer, in these pages. More often than not, when a foreign movie is remade as an American movie, everything that was special about the original is excised or dumbed down. […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Mainstream, Romance, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Romance/ Action/ Comedy/ Mainstream
Director: Shawn Levy
Year: 2010
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
As far as I can tell, the key to enjoying Date Night, a story about a boring New Jersey couple, is being half of such a couple yourself.
Many reviewers have pointed out that there is little that is wildly funny, creative, or thrilling […]
