Thursday, May 26th, 2011
The Other Guys
I’m almost a year late to the party, but my friend’s mother recently got The Other Guys on Netflix—and, well, I’m glad we had nothing better to do that night. After slagging on Will Ferrell recently, and on “mainstream comedy” for awhile now, I felt obligated to endorse this film. It opens on an overt [...]
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Source Code
12 Monkeys ÷ (Groundhog Day + Unstoppable) = Source Code > your average blockbuster. That’s a fairly simple formula, especially compared to the one supplied by the screenwriter, Ben Ripley; and if you don’t want to know what his is—well then I suggest you close this browser and refresh Facebook for the nth time instead. [...]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
Sucker Punch
The beer in my gut from before I hit Sucker Punch doesn’t preclude me from knowing what the film was about; I only wish it did. The trailer had me fooled that maybe Zack Snyder, directing his own material for the first time, had gone ballistic in a redeemable, wacko-Zacko way. I’ve successfully evaded his [...]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
The Eagle
The collapse of Western Civilization is pretty in these days. To varying degrees, it colored some of the most important American films of 2007 and 2008: WALL-E, No Country for Old Men, and There Will Be Blood all flirted with Revelations. And if terrorism isn’t the tipping point, or Sept. 11, the Internet, or Iraq, [...]
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
The Mechanic
There’s a certain class of moviegoer—particularly those who don’t self-identify as action-film aficionados—that a certain breed of action-movie star, like The Rock or Jason Statham, nonetheless has the ability to schooool. (I’d throw Denzel Washington into the mix, but he also has the bona fides of a gen-u-wine actor.) Part of the equation is physical, [...]