Just another Time Traveling Manic Monday – “Timecrimes”
“Timecrimes” is a movie I liked that I’m having a hard time describing. It’s not a typical drama because the protagonists and antagonists are less traditional, sometimes they are one and the same, and in other cases your enemy is just time. But not like the way Justin Timberlake had to face time in “in [...]
Go to a red box. Grow some personality. Love your life. And watch “Detention”
I don’t even know how someone writes a film like this. This is the most original, most pleasant surprise of a film I have seen, quite possibly in my entire life. That’s obviously saying a lot, but follow me here… This movie falls somewhere along the lines of Scott Pilgrim VS The World as far [...]
New Waterford Girl
I don’t want to say a lot about this movie (but will probably end up writing 3 paragraphs), except that I did like it, and that “Liane Balaban’s” character, ‘Mooney’ Channels a little bit of Natalie Portman in and, in fact, seems to be very Portman-esque overall. is essentially a ‘coming-of-age’ movie that happens in [...]
Must Be Good It’s Monday – “Spork”
I honestly dont’ even know how to review this movie. I’m not sure that there’s anything else like it. In fact… there is nothing else like this film. This is the definition of Independent film done right. What feels like a dark comedy manages to play by the rules of traditional blockbuster hits with a [...]
Fantastic Foreign Friday – “Battle Royale”
Oh man… this movie is so cool. It’s on Netflix Watch Instantly… It’s like “The Hunger Games” but way more intense. It’s not too insane that normal people can’t watch it. To put it plainly, my wife who doesn’t care much for anything I like, especially what she calls “the subtitle genre”. stopped what she [...]
DOCUMEN:TUESDAY – “Resurrect Dead”
Yes! So pumped. It’s not often that I get to share a great documentary on this blog. More often then not I come across “food”, “education”, or “environment”. At a certain point you can only drive the point so far. Everything is broken and everyone is to blame. And if I see one more poster [...]
Must be good it’s monday – “Submarine”
It’s funny, not in a laugh out loud sort of way I suppose, how much of a story a trailer can tell or at least how many memories it can spark. I often sit through a good movie and then feel a satisfying feeling about the film and ignore the review process. It is quite [...]
GENERIC FIGHT THE SYSTEM AND FEEL GOOD ABOUT IF FILMS – “The Rage in Placid Lake”
Well this is a new one on me… you can watch this movie on youtube. In fact, the full 90 minutes have been embedded into this post. I, however, watched this film on Netflix, like a normal person, advertisement free. But feel free to watch it wherever you like. Just as long as you watch [...]
BEST USE OF TOM HANKS AS COLIN HANKS DAD AWARD GOES TO… – “The Great Buck Howard”
Oh that’s where John Malkovich has been hiding. He’s been hanging out with supporting characters in a feature film with Zulu and Ben from Parks and Rec. And nothing satisfies a film more than seeing Tom Hanks play the father of a character portrayed by his son Colin Hanks. One of those, “I see what [...]
DIDN’T CATCH A WORD – “Elling”
“Elling” is about two patients from an institution who receive permission to take care of themselves in government housing. I think Elling’s mom has passed away recently which threw him into this new situation. Neither of the characters have any discernable disabilities, just social setbacks and difficulty with emotions which leads to a lot of [...]
