The most recent film from action director Antoine Fuqua, Brooklyn’s Finest is the story of three seemingly unconnected cops walking the Brooklyn beat. Ethan Hawke plays a detective with money problems, namely buying a house for his pregnant wife and apparently unending stream of children. Don Cheadle plays an undercover drug peddler who is asked [...]
Read More action, Antoine Fuqua, blu-ray, Brooklyn's Finest, crime, Don Cheadle, drama, DVD, Ethan Hawke, Noah, R, Richard Gere, thrillerYouth in Revolt is the story of boring high school student Nick Twisp (Michael Cera), his less than stellar parents, and his undying love for Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday), whom he met on vacation. On the eve of returning to his lackluster life from this vacation, Nick invents an alter ego, Francois Dillinger, a true [...]
Read More blu-ray, comedy, drama, DVD, Michael Cera, Noah, Portia Doubleday, R, romance, Youth In RevoltTo me personally, taking the cinematic masterpiece that is 8 1/2 and turning it into a musical is something akin to porn movies that use popular mainstream movies as their jumping off point, (i.e. Forrest Rump). But no one else wanted to review it, so who falls on that grenade? This guy, that’s who.
Read More Daniel Day-Lewis, Fergie, Judi Dench, Mario Cotillard, Nine, NoahThe Men Who Stare at Goats is the first feature directed by Grant Heslov. Heslov is perhaps best know as a producer and writing partner of George Clooney. To me he will always be the guy who loved coffee in Dante’s Peak.
Read More blu-ray, comedy, DVD, Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Grant Heslov, jeff bridges, Jon Ronson, Kevin Spacey, Noah, R, The Men Who Stare At Goats, warI had a friend recently tell me that Armored was directed by a moron. Upon further investigation I found that the director was actually Nimród Antal, the director of Kontroll and Vacancy among others. While this does not necessarily negate the moron thing, I feel that the previous two films were good enough to try [...]
Read More action, Armored, blu-ray, Columbus Short, drama, DVD, Fred Ward, Laurence Fishburne, Matt Dillon, Nimrod Antal, Noah, PG-13, thrillerI liked Juno, I liked Thank You for Smoking, therefore I liked Jason Reitman. I had decided he was a director who I would always look for on DVD, and I did. From now on I’ll be going to the theater, because Up in the Air is a game-changer.
Read More Anna Kendrick, blu-ray, comedy, drama, DVD, George Clooney, Jason Reitman, Noah, R, romance, Up In the Air, Vera FarmigaThe latest film from Pusher director Nicolas Winding Refn, Bronson tells the story of Michael Peterson (aka Charles Bronson) the “most violent man” in British prison history. In what could be the best performance of the year, Tom Hardy plays Bronson, a lost soul who dreams of celebrity.
Read More action, biography, Bronson, drama, DVD, Nicolas Winding Refn, Noah, R, thriller, Tom HardyFinally a film for that rare young girl who doesn’t feel the world understands her. Whip It is the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore, starring Juno‘s Ellen Page as Bliss, a young girl in a small Texas town who feels the world doesn’t understand her. On a trip to Austin, Bliss discovers that her life’s [...]
Read More Alia Shawkat, comedy, Daniel Stern, drama, Drew Barrymore, DVD, Ellen Page, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Wiig, Marcia Gay Harden, Michael Cera, Noah, PG-13, Sport, Whip ItGamer, directed by “visionary” Crank team Neveldine/Taylor, stars Gerard Butler as Kable, a convicted felon “persuaded” to join “Slayers.” “Slayers” is an online multi-player “game” where real people, like Kable, are “controlled” by children, or sweaty fat men in windowless rooms, via Al Gore’s mysterious “internet.” The “slayers” face off in combat using automatic weapons. Things [...]
Read More action, DVD, Gamer, Gerard Butler, Michael Hall, Neveldine, Noah, R, Sci-Fi, Taylor, thrillerI Love You Beth Cooper is a familliar story. Incredibly nerdy guy meets, or rather obsesses over, unattainable girl until ridiculous circumstances throw them together. She learns that dorks are people too, and he learns that things put up on pedestals are rarely as shiny when you look at them up close.
Read More Alan Ruck, comedy, DVD, Hayden Pennetiere, I Love You Beth Cooper, Noah, Paul Rust, PG-13