LET ME IN: You Got THE RIGHT ONE Baby?
Tomas Alfredson's dark supernatural fable LET THE RIGHT ONE IN was one of the best films of 2008, but it had one glaring flaw: it was in fucking Swedish. Sure, the movie was phenomenal, if you didn't mind reading words on the...
THE SOCIAL NETWORK: 1 Person Likes This
Mark Zuckerberg, the world's youngest ultra-gazillionaire, founded Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2003, so the tale goes. Along with his friend and bankroller Eduardo Saverin, Zuckerberg took a simple idea, that the young people these days want to...
Is THE OTHER GUYS Worth Cashmoney?
Adam McKay's THE OTHER GUYS is as funny as STEP BROTHERS, his last film with key collaborator Will Ferrell, and that's a real compliment. Their newest is another loose, confident comedy of male posturing - and it even takes a...
INCEPTION: What to Think.
Let's get something out of the way: you should see INCEPTION. Even if you have no interest in seeing it, see it. If only so you can continue reading, and not hate me having ruined it for you. INCEPTION is...
TOY STORY 3: WORST MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Had to get your attention somehow, right? Every year it's the same. The good people of Los Angeles work to make all the movies you see - all the awful movies, even some of the good ones too. And then,...
A NIGHTMARE ON EL... zzz... zzz... zzz...
Why pretend to be something I'm not? The truth is, I've never seen the original A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. Nor have I seen any of its many sequels. I also haven't seen the original FRIDAY THE 13TH or its...
IRON MAN 2: The Stark Reality
The following review contains some MINOR SPOILERS, friends.Summer blockbuster season always brings with it at least one big disappointment. This year's comes right up front - and what a disappointment it is. IRON MAN 2 is a classic sequel in...
KICK-ASS: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Batman
What you'll talk about after seeing KICK-ASS can be summed up like so: Hit Girl. In the new ensemble superhero film, Chloe Moretz plays Mindy Macready a.k.a. Hit Girl, an eleven year-old trained in the deadly arts by her father...
HARRY BROWN: Eleanor Rigby, With a Revolver
The new British crime thriller HARRY BROWN opens with some disturbing camcorder footage. A young man is initiated into an urban gang with a toke from a crack pipe and a vow on a handgun, and soon, he's senselessly...
CLASH OF THE TITANS: REMAKE THE KRAKEN!
The original CLASH OF THE TITANS was released a year before I was born, and I'd like to think that I've aged somewhat better than it has. What may have seemed spectacular then, now seems beyond cheese. Certainly, cheese can...
Shutter Island: Where Nothing Is What It Seems... OR IS IT?
Martin Scorsese's SHUTTER ISLAND introduces us to Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio,) a U.S. Marshal in 1954, as he's ferried to an island off the coast of Massachussetts to solve a missing person's case. That person, Rachel Solando, we soon discover,...
'EDGE OF DARKNESS' and the Resurrection of Mel Gibson
Warning: If you've never seen a Mel Gibson movie before, this review may contain spoilers.Following THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, and revelations about his feelings towards the chosen people and the sugar-titted, many such as myself have spent the last...
A Warning to the Heartland: Beware 'THE LOVELY BONES'
Dear middle America, As you peruse your local movie listings this Martin Luther King Day weekend, you may find yourself considering Peter Jackson's THE LOVELY BONES, which opens in 'wide release' (your neck of the woods,) after over a...
