According to one of the lawyer types whose attempts to adequately quantify the White family that is the subject of The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, the family is one of ten such clans that create most of the crime in the state. Another muses that while they never work, they always have […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: Tribeca VOD: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Lives Up to Its Larger Than Life Subject!
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is three parts straight ahead biographical film to one part impressionistic bits – all dealing with the life of the late Ian Dury [Andy Serkis], rock & roll entertainer extraordinaire. It treats the life of this unique talent with precisely the kind irreverence he would have expected.
MOVIE REVIEW: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time – Epic but Ephemeral!
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a movie filled with running, jumping, fighting [with fists, words, knives, snakes and darts – among other things]. Like Thief of Baghdad on acid, it is filled with visual wonders and feats of derring-do. It is, in fact, a swashbuckler that, CG aside, owes far more […]
MOVIE REVIEW: TRIBECA VOD: The Infidel – An Extreme Case of Identity Crisis!
You know the expression Sunday Christian? Well, Mahmud Nasir [Omid Djalili] is the Muslim equivalent. He prays five times a day… mostly; he hardly ever swears… he says, and maybe, after a stressful day, a bit of pale ale may pass his lips. In his heart, though, he is a fervent Muslim with a good […]
Prince of Persia The Sands of Time fails to be Epic, Michelle’s Review!
I don’t know. I just don’t know…. I’m not sure if I really liked Prince of Persia or not. I’m not one of these critics who have an irrational hatred for all things Jerry Bruckheimer, I actually love most of his movies (except the Transformer series) and recently watched Armageddon again on Blu-ray and still […]
MOVIE REVIEW: TRIBECA: Metropia – Swedish Animated Dystopic Film’s Look is Stunning!
Metropia is a stranger film than the average dystopia. With a visual design that would be appropriate for 1984 and its depiction of a Europe connected by a vast subway complex called The Metro and a plot that includes a biological mind control device disseminated by shampoo, Metropia is definitely a unique experience.
MOVIE REVIEW: TRIBECA VOD: My Last Five Girlfriends – Oddball Romantic Comedy Charms!
One of this year’s innovations at the Tribeca Film Festival was the introduction of the release of several titles to Video on Demand. Over the week, I’ll be looking at five of the more popular titles, beginning with the U.K. romantic comedy My Last Five Girlfriends.
MOVIE REVIEW: Shrek Forever After Ends the Franchise on a Positive Note!
Shrek [Mike Myers] has become [he thinks] ordinary – he has a wife and three babies; random strangers ask him to roar for their children; the Far Far Away tour bus stops by his swamp home to point out the totally not scary ogre who saved the kingdom. Life is perfect. Perfectly boring. More than […]
The State of Comic Book Movies by Scott (The Plant) Essman
Since the box office explosion of Tim Burton’s Batman feature adaptation in 1989, the major Hollywood movie studios have attempted to exploit the comic book / graphic novel in feature adaptations of hordes of previously dormant franchises. In the past twenty years, there have been many such films and sequels, not to mention many other […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Robin Hood – Too Long; Too Grim and Too Much!
I can’t even begin to chart the historical inaccuracies of Robin Hood [which are the only things that Ridley Scott’s bloated origin story has in common with those Robins who have gone before] which makes all of the film’s efforts to evoke a real time and place kind of pointless. So Robin Hood is working […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Iron Man 2: More is Less!
One of the hardest things to do in movies is create a sequel that equals or betters its predecessor. Iron Man 2 dos not meet that challenge – but it’s nowhere near being a bad movie. The problem is that IM2 has to do a lot of things: it has to further the story of […]