Recent Releases: Away We Go (2009) – Comedy/Drama – [imdb] The Brothers Bloom (2009) – Adventure/Drama/Comedy/Crime/Romance – [imdb] – check back for our review Filth and Wisdom (2008) – Comedy/Drama/Music/Romance – [imdb] The Girlfriend Experience (2009) – Drama – [imdb] – check back for our review Gotterdammerung: The Enemy at the Gates (2009) – Documentary [...]
Read MoreIn Observe and Report we again get to watch an overweight funnyman play a shopping mall security guard with big dreams. Only instead of the comparatively cuddly Kevin James riding around on a Segway, we get a seriously scowl-faced Seth Rogen swearing every other word in a violent and mean-spirited melding of Paul Blart and [...]
Read More action, Anna Faris, Celia Weston, Collette Wolfe, comedy, crime, David, drama, DVD, Jody Hill, Michael Pena, Observe & Report, Patton Oswald, R, Ray Liotta, Seth RogenIn Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past, Matthew McConaughey takes the lead as the gorgeous, smooth-talking, emotionally shallow photographer Connor Mead. Mead is stuck firmly in his womanizing ways, and stops at nothing short of breaking up with 3 women simultaneously via teleconference. But Mead is forced to face his past while attending his brother’s (Breckin Meyer) [...]
Read More Breckin Meyer, comedy, DVD, Fantasy, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Jennifer Garner, Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Douglas, PG-13, romance, SpookWhen I saw Adam Resurrected at the Telluride Film Festival in 2008, I thought Jeff Goldblum would finally receive some accolades for his acting – at least a Best Actor nomination. Instead, nothing. This strange, riveting and powerful film received almost no theatrical release, and no critical acclaim to speak of. Let’s give it its [...]
Read More Adam Resurrected, Bruce, drama, DVD, Jeff Goldblum, Paul Schrader, R, warA group of Norwegian locomotive engineers gather at a party, quizzing one another on their arcane knowledge of railroad engineering (Finbar McBride, the protagonist of The Station Agent, would be very much at home with this crowd). They are throwing this party to honor Odd Horten (Baard Owe), who at 67 is departing their ranks [...]
Read More Baard Owe, comedy, drama, DVD, O'Horten, PG-13, willAs directed by Derick Martini (Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire), Lymelife is a sharply observed portrait of suburban Long Island life, circa 1979. Although we’ve seen this kind of film before, Lymelife is a classic example of how meticulously detailed direction of actors, and those actors’ superb character delineations can raise just about any [...]
Read More Alec Baldwin, Bruce, comedy, Cynthia Nixon, Derick Martini, drama, DVD, Emma Roberts, Kieran Culkin, Lymelife, R, Rory Culkin, Timothy HuttonX-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE STATE OF PLAY SUNSHINE CLEANING ADVENTURELAND DUPLICITY
Read MoreRecent Releases: Adam Resurrected (2008) – Drama/War – [imdb] – check back for our review Book of Blood (2008) – Drama/Fantasy/Horror/Mystery/Thriller – [imdb] Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) – Comedy/Fantasy/Romance – [imdb] – check back for our review Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (2009) – Documentary/History/War – [imdb] Lymelife (2008) – Comedy/Drama – [imdb] [...]
Read MoreWhat came in this week on DVD? X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE EASY VIRTUE TRUMBO and many more…
Read MoreThough nowhere near as good as the first-rate first X-Men flick, the comparatively operatic Wolverine still succeeds as solid action entertainment thanks to some suitably brawny set pieces and star Hugh Jackman‘s robust reprisal of the title role. A prequel pic, it explains how the mutton-chopped speed-healer’s involvement with his like-powered brother (Liev Schreiber) and [...]
Read More action, blu-ray, Danny Huston, David, Dominic Monaghan, DVD, Fantasy, Gavin Hood, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Lynn Collins, PG-13, Ryan Reynolds, Sci-Fi, Taylor Kitsch, thriller, Will.i.am, Wolverine, X-Men Origins