Most movies that bill themselves as ‘Based of a True Story’ tend to have the barest connection to actual events. Captain Phillips is not one of those films.
Category: Movie Reviews
Machete Kills Kills!
When you need to take out a madman who has a missile pointed at Washington, who do you call? Machete!
Romeo & Juliet: Passionate But Not Quite Enough!
Carlo Carlei’s Romeo & Juliet hits the plays high points with a certain amount of style and some passionate performances, but is sabotaged by overly rapid pacing and a script that isn’t all Shakespeare. It’s still worth seeing, but it could have been so much better.
The Fifth Estate: New Tension-Packed Clip and Behind The Scenes Featurette Released!
DreamWorks’ Julian Assange/WikiLeaks film, The Fifth Estate hits theaters next week (October 18th). A new clip – showing a bit of a disagreement between WikiLeaks’ founders (above) – and featurette (after the jump) have just been released. They point to the film being quite the tension-pack tale.
Gravity Serves Notice – Cuarón is One of the Great Filmmakers!
Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity can be seen in many ways. Just from a Christian sensibility, it could be taken as either a resurrection story or an expulsion from Eden tale. It could be a tale of birth or rebirth. Or, it could simply be a shipwreck tale. On every level, however you view it, it is […]
Gravity doesn’t live up to the Hype! Michelle’s Review
The internet just exploded with excitement when the trailer for Sandra Bullock, and George Clooney‘s latest flick – Gravity hit. People were spooging themselves, using phrases like “life altering,” “stunning,” “changes the very fabric of cinema,” etc. This was just for the trailer. After a week of hype, I watched the trailer thinking to myself […]
Rush feels Cold and Calculating. Michelle’s Review
In the early to mid 70s one of the biggest sports in the world was Formula 1 racing. At the top of the heap was the rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Producer, Director Ron Howard has crafted a portrait of not only the relationship between the two but what it must have been […]
Villeneuve Takes Prisoners Beyond Genre!
You will, almost certainly, read elsewhere that Denis Villeneuve’s film Prisoners is a revenge movie. Since vengeance cannot be enacted without there being some kind of finality to the original crime, I’m not quite how that would work. Rather, Prisoners is a psychological thriller with some nasty violence – a film that explores the depths […]
The Family’s Dark Whimsy Carries The Day – Barely!
Luc Besson is a master of taking different genres and infusing them with whimsy. With The Family he applies that gift to the mob movie with mostly successful results. Too bad it’s the last fifteen minutes that veer off into a whole ‘nother movie.
Getaway Is Awful!
Surprise! Selena Gomez can act! Bigger (or lesser, depending on your point of view) surprise – it doesn’t matter because Getaway is so far beyond awful that it even fails to be bad enough to be good.
Closed Circuit: Taut, Topical, Smart and Suspenseful!
Closed Circuit is an old-fashioned slow burn British legal thriller that applies traditional storytelling techniques with modern technology and the legal maze created to deal with terrorism – and especially the laws that allow evidence deemed perilously dangerous to national security to be withheld from both the defense team and the defendant.