Albert Nobbs was not my cup of tea, but it could possibly be yours. I’m not a big fan of period pieces, but I thought that by virtue of an incredible performance by Glenn Close, I would transcend my prejudice. Was Close’s performance technically excellent? Yes, probably. She had the accent, the gait, the look, [...]
Read More Albert Nobbs, drama, Glenn Close, Janet McTeer, joyce, Mia Wasikowska, Rodrigo Garcia
In Chronicle we get one of the year’s best films, a fun and cool and awesome piece of lower-budget sci-fi that uses the found footage format, a simple but neat premise and seamless special effects to deftly detail in larger-than-life fashion what I imagine are the horrors of being a bullied teenager today. Dreamed up [...]
Read More Chronicle, Dane DeHaan, David, drama, Josh Trank, Max Landis, Sci-Fi, thriller
Rarely have I rolled my eyes, or wanted to gag, more than while watching New Year’s Eve, director Garry Marshall’s nigh unbearable Valentine’s Day follow-up, a movie seemingly constructed to be the Gone with the Wind of soft-serve rom-com mash-ups, and run nearly as long.
Read More Abigail Breslin, Ashton Kutcher, blu-ray, comedy, David, DVD, Garry Marshall, Hilary Swank, Josh Duhamel, Katherine Heigl, New Year's Eve, Robert De Niro, romance, Sarah Jessica ParkerLight the fuse… Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (note the official title uses a dash to avoid the awkwardness of two colons) is, arguably, the best of the four Tom Cruise-led films based on the classic 1966-1973 TV series. This has a lot to do with the hiring of director Brad Bird, who heretofore had [...]
Read MoreWhere did Michael Fassbender come from? It’s a legitimate question. The Irish actor seems to have been a presence in films for years, but, in truth, has only been seen on the big screen for a handful, after spending his formative time as an addendum on BBC police procedurals. After a stint in UK horror, [...]
Read MoreBoy, that Meryl Streep really is a great actress, isn’t she? And her makeup guy, too. He’s way better than whoever Eastwood hired to do DiCaprio in J. Edgar.
Read MoreInto the Abyss is the story of a triple homicide committed in Conroe, Texas on October 24th 2001, perpetrated by Michael Perry (18 years old) and Jason Burkett (19 years old). It was originally an episode in the four part television mini-series Werner Herzog directed called On Death Row airing on Discovery I.D. channel.
Read MoreIt’s bad enough we fight each other over our finite natural resources. Now hostile extraterrestrials want in on the action, too. At least, that’s been their m.o. in the recent rash of alien invasion flicks, including Skyline, Battle: Los Angeles and now the lackluster The Darkest Hour, which will probably best be remembered as “that [...]
Read More“War, which used to be cruel and magnificent, has now become cruel and squalid.” When Winston Churchill wrote those words in the years after World War I, he was certainly in part lamenting the passing into history of the war horse, the millennia-old instrument of warfare who was conditioned (as was the man on its [...]
Read MoreDirected by Cameron Crowe, We Bought a Zoo is the story of Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) who moves his two kids Dylan and Rosie (Colin Ford and Maggie Elizabeth Jones) to a dilapidated zoo, to get away from all the reminders of his recently deceased wife. Dylan is a dark and moody teenager, and Rosie [...]
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