Category: Movie Reviews
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Due Date is a crude, vulgar and unrelenting buddy movie
Due Date – 2010 Directed by Todd Phillips Starring Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan Screenplay by Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, Adam Sztykiel, Todd Phillips Todd Phillips is an enigmatic wonderland. There are moments in his films that make one want to turn it off. These are often followed by moments that…
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The Fighter is tailor made by Wahlberg
The Fighter – 2010 Director David O. Russell Starring Mark Wahlberg, Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo and a horde of Irish Sisters Written by Scott Silver, Paul Tamsay, Eric Johnson Every Oscar season is back loaded with all types of movies like The Fighter. They ought to just call every fall the Reader’s Digest…
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How Do You Know when a movie is too long?
How Do You Know – 2010 Written and Directed by James L. Brooks Starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, Jack Nicholson When George Lucas made his horrible Star Wars prequels, many cynical people just assumed it was a money grab. While Lucas is acutely aware of the process in which profit is accrued, he…
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If you don’t count the special effects, Let Me In is a classic
Let Me In – 2010 Written and Directed by Matt Reeves Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elias Kotas, Richard Jenkins Let Me In early on has a scene so unsettling that, left unexplained, would have led me to think of it as a very different movie. A boy, aged 12, sits alone in his room…
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My Soul To Take moves around a lot but doesn’t go anywhere
My Soul To Take – 2010 Directed and Written by Wes Craven Starring Max Thieriot, Denzel Whitaker, Raul Esparza, Shareeka Epps, John Magaro, Zena Gray, Emily Meade, Jessica Hecht, Harris Yulin Harris Ulin is one of my favorite character actors. The first time I remember seeing him was as the grouchy Judge Stephen Wexler in…
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Morning Glory gives hope to romantic comedies
Morning Glory – 2010 Directed by Roger Michell Starring Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton, Harrison Ford, Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum, Ty Burrell, Matt Malloy, John Pankow Written by Aline Brosh McKenna When I first heard that Harrison Ford was going to be starring opposite Rachel McAdams in a romantic comedy, I just took it for granted…
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Millennium Trilogy, Part 3: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest, but good
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest – 2009 Directed by Daniel Alfredson Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Mike Spreitz, Annika Hallin, Aksel Morisse, Georgi Staykov, Anders Ahlbom Written by Jonas Frykberg, Ulf Rydberg, based on the novel by Stieg Larsson There is a moment early on when Lisbeth Salander (Rapace) lays nearly helpless in the…
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The A-Team rates a solid C+
The A-Team – 2010 – Unrated Edition Director – Joe Carnahan Starring – Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Patrick Wilson, Quinton Jackson, Sharlto Copely, Jessica Biel, Gerald McRaney, Brian Bloom, Henry Czerny, John Hamm Written by – Joe Carnahan, Brian Bloom, Skip Woods Of course I avoided The A-Team this summer when it came out, and…
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Winter’s Bone shows an the all too real effect of Meth
Winter’s Bone – 2010 Directed by Debra Granik Starring Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garrett Dillahunt, Lauren Sweester, Dale Dickey, Shelly Waggener Written by Debra Granik and Anne Rosselini based on the book by Daniel Woodrell In all honesty, as good a movie as Winter’s Bone, I don’t think I could ever watch it again. It…
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Ryan Reynolds provides depth to Buried
Buried – 2010 Directed by Rodrigo Cortes Starring Ryan Reynolds Written by Chris Sparling The first thing one thinks when seeing the first light in the movie Buried (several minutes into the film) is: “Now that you that you know you are in a box with limited air, for God sakes turn off that oxygen…
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