Category: Movie Reviews
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Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – Plays like, surprise, half of a movie
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows, Part 1 – 2011 Directed by David Yates Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, John Hurt, Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy, David Thewlis, Patricia Walters, Rhys Ifans Written by Steve Kloves based on the book by…
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Tron: Legacy – The Dude abides an old new world
Tron: Legacy – 2010 Directed by Joseph Kosinski Starring Jeff Bridges, Garret Hedlund, Bruce Boxleitner, Olivia Wilde, Michael Sheen Written by Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis There’s a concept expressed in Tron: Legacy that is a clever one, considering it is based on life inside of a computer program. Kevin Flynn, having discovered the existence of…
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Black Swan is not exactly Let’s Dance
Black Swan – 2010 Directed by Darren Aronofsky Starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey Written by Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John McLaughlin “Let’s Dance” – Lyrics by David Bowie “Let’s dance Let’s dance Let’s dance, put on your red shoes and dance the blues Let’s dance, to the song they’re playin’ on the radio…” Well,…
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The Next Three Days feels like a week or so
The Next Three Days – 2011 Directed by Paul Haggis Starring Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Brian Dennehy, Olivia Wilde, Jason Beghe Written by Haggis and Fred Cavayé The Next Three Days is a well-intentioned, methodical, and ultimately plodding remake of a French film (written and directed by Cavayé) called Anything for Her. It follows its…
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Life As We Know It is every romantic comedy as we know (and sometimes love) them
Life As We Know It – 2010 Directed by Greg Berlanti Starring Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, Christina Hendricks, Sarah Burns, Faizon Love Written by Ian Deitchman, Kristin Rusk Robinson There is a lot going on here, in this romantic comedy. The start is somewhat natural, given that the two leads have a meet-cute that…
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127 Hours allows the discovery of the weight of life
127 Hours – 2010 Directed by Danny Boyle Starring James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Clémence Poésy, Lizzy Kaplan, Treat Williams, Kate Burton Written by Simon Beaufoy, Danny Boyle based on the story “Between A Rock And A Hard Place” by Aron Ralston Aron Ralston (Franco) is an intelligent guy. At Carnegie Mellon University, he was…
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Skyline is clear of good acting, unpredictable story
Skyline – 2010 Directed by The Brothers Strause Starring Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson, Donald Faison, Brittany Daniel, Crystal Reed, David Zayas Written by Joshua Cordes, Liam O’Donnell One of the things that bugs me most about Stephen Speilberg is that he tends to proselytize, and while doing it, commits some of the most pedestrian directorial…
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Burlesque is about…119 minutes
Burlesque – 2010 Directed by Steve Antin Starring Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane, Stanley Tucci, Julianne Hough, Kristin Bell, Alan Cumming, Peter Gallagher Written by Steve Antin, Diablo Cody So, tell us a bit about yourself – My name is Cool Papa, father of two girls with first names that start with an “E,” but…
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Tangled starts a new era of golden classics
Tangled – 2010 Directed by Nathan Grano, Byron Howard Starring the voices of Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Brad Garrett, Ron Perlman Written by Dan Fogelman, based on the story “Rapunzel” by The Brothers Grimm When I first heard about the Disney update of “Rapunzel” being the first classic redone digitally, like all the…
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Unstoppable is a long train running for Denzel, Pine
Unstoppable – 2010 Directed by Tony Scott Starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Kevin Dunn, Ethan Supplie, Kevin Corrigan, Lew Temple, T.J. Miller, Jessy Schram Written by Mark Bowen Lew Temple is someone I cannot recall having seen before, although he has been in a handful of decent films in bit parts. His role…
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