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Posted in Reviews on Jul 29th, 2008
Taken, directed by Pierre Morel, is very good action thriller. Liam Neeson stars as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA agent who left Central Intelligence Agency to salvage his relationship with his daughter. Bryan already sacrificed his marriage to his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) in the service of his country and doesn’t want a repeat of history.
After [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jul 27th, 2008
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is a nearly perfect superhero film. The superhero, Batman, evolves from the last film and comes to personal realizations about himself. The underworld Batman combats becomes more dangerous out of desperation from his crime fighting, spawning an incomprehensible villain and a would-be example of bravery in the face of adversity.
The [...]
Batman: Gotham Knight is a six segment animated film, each directed by a different director of Asian descent. The animation quality, both in character and environment detail, in these six segments exceed the quality of the animation found within all of the Batman Animated series, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and all of the other [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jul 15th, 2008
Martin Gero’s Young People Fucking is a film about, you guessed it, young people engaged in sexual intercourse, the situations that surrounded the act and the lives of its participants. The situations are The Friends, The Couple, The First Date, The Roommates and The Exes. The sexual acts involved are Prelude, Foreplay, Sex, Interlude, Orgasm [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jul 4th, 2008
Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk is a more focused and action packed film adaptation of the Marvel comic book involving Dr. Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) and his gamma eradiated, anger induced monster than Ang Lee’s Hulk (2003) and is almost as good as recently released Iron Man. While in Brazil at the beginning of The [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jun 24th, 2008
Severe Visibility is film about the terrorist attack on the Pentagon during 9/11 and the investigation into that attack afterward. At the center of that investigation and this film is Stanley Kruter (Paul Cross), a United States Army Major with the accounting branch of the Pentagon. Since Major Kruter was present in the Pentagon the [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jun 3rd, 2008
Iron Man is one of the few superhero films of late to take its source material seriously. The film also boasts an impressive roster of note-worthy A-listers. All of these elements, combined with great direction by Jon Favreau, make Iron Man one of the best superhero movies ever made. Iron Man exceeds Superman Returns (and [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 25th, 2008
War, Inc. is a political satire about the nature of war, America’s conduct in other countries before and after a military conflict has occurred, product placement, the CIA, logos and killers. The world that exists in War, Inc. is a marketing teacher’s dream. The four P’s of marketing: Product, Price, Placement and Production are proliferated [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 19th, 2008
Teeth is a horror movie with comedic elements that deals with mutation, the myth of Vagina Dentate and virginity. Teeth revolves around a teenage girl, Dawn O’Keefe (Jess Weixler), that was born with teeth in her vagina. Dawn is a celibacy-promoting high school student who at a young age was given a new step dad, [...]
Posted in Reviews on May 8th, 2008
Celine Sciamma’s Water Lilies (Naissance des Pieuvres) is a film about teens that are beginning to discover who they are, that actually stars teens (not mid-twenty year olds playing teens) and does not exploit that fact in any form. This film immediately brought to mind 2001’s Lost and Delirious because of Marie’s (Pauline Acquart) affection [...]
