This is a long delayed posting of a much underseen film that did not get the recognition I believe it deserved during awards season. As a matter of fact, looking back over its awards history, I am really saddened that writer /director Courtney Hunt went unrecognized in all of the big competitions. But I am getting ahead of [...]
Michael Cera plays a lovably baffled and recently heartbroken indie rock aficionado who, along with band of merry very gay boys meets Kat Dennings while on an unsupervised jaunt to Manhattan to track down their favorite band, “Where’s Fluffy?” They fall in love while trying to find her drunk friend (a charming and adorable Ari Graynor) [...]
Gomorra is a certain kind of movie in a certain kind of neorealistic style that lulls critics into a false sense of security. That is, makes them believe that because of its brightly saturated colors, minimalist lighting, unprofessional actors and meandering story lines with dark themes and tragic consequences that it is “good.” With this [...]
Firstly, can we please put the kibosh on the “America is Just That Into” and “We’re Just That Into” and “Harvey Weinstein’s Just Not That Into” headlines? Please? Pretty please? I went to see He’s Just Not That Into You over the weekend. It was pretty much against my will. And it pretty much made me [...]
The Conversation: Undeniably awesome! Breathless: Sexily French! Away From Her: Sadly boring! Taken: Disappointingly corny!
I finally saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button this weekend. Oh boy, did I see it. For 3 hours I saw it and saw it. Longer if you count the 9 or 10 times I’ve seen Forrest Gump. The fact that this movie was nominated for 11 Academy Awards makes me seriously question whether [...]
I struggled for a while, as to whether I should tag Paul Blart: Mall Cop with “comedy” or “horror.” I won’t go in to the whys and hows that answer the way in which I ended up seeing this movie, suffice to say it has something to do with imitation Goldfish crackers, iPhone malfunctions and [...]
Is there anything better than a SearchingOutOldGirlfriends movie? Well, maybe a Jean-Claude Van Damme double feature, but besides that. In an instance similar to more recent efforts like The Wrestler, Jim Jarmusch‘s 2005 mid-life drama Broken Flowers never could have worked without the sensibilities of its star, in this case Bill Murray. Murray plays Don [...]
I’ve come to a conclusion. It’s a big, sweeping, unnecessary conclusion, but as I finished watching Neil LaBute‘s The Shape of Things the other day, it became painfully obvious. Brace yourself. With very few exceptions, I do not like movies based on stage plays. Good, bad, mediocre. Well directed with stars or haphazard with unknowns. It [...]
Let the Right One In is one of those movies that just kind of comes out of nowhere. As a matter of fact, I had heard nothing of it until I started following awards season buzz and the Internet was all atwitter. So I went in not knowing much about it except for the dreaded [...]