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I love Shakespeare's work. Who doesn't? His use of the English language remains unparalleled so many centuries later and his stories continue to stir the imagination to this day. The tragic King Lear, the corrupt Macbeth, the mad Hamlet and even those young… Continue reading
If I had to summarize Get Low in two words, they'd probably be "Memento mori." The entire film is a meditation on death and all that it entails, such as inevitability, uncertainty and repentance. If you're old, you can add to the list obsolescence, loneliness… Continue reading
I admit that I've been seeing movies in a very different way since I started blogging. It used to be that I would simply watch a movie and try to enjoy myself. Now, I actively search for nits to pick in the movie I'm watching. I'm constantly looking for… Continue reading
…but the adults are screwed up. The Kids Are All Right is a decidedly small movie. It's one of those slice-of-life films that try to emulate real life, with characters and scenarios that could easily be going on right now in any suburb, yet the… Continue reading
Love him or hate him (and there are many who hate him), there's no denying that Zack Snyder's got balls. He broke into the mainstream by remaking one of history's definitive zombie movies. He followed that up by adapting a slim graphic novel that was… Continue reading
The Town is a frustrating film to me, but not because it's a bad movie. Far from it. The movie is very good in point of fact, it's just that there are so many little ways that it could have been so much better. But first, the positive. This movie is visually… Continue reading
Business is booming for George Clooney right now. The guy was impossible to avoid in 2009, with three films out in a two-month period, one of which got him a Best Actor nod at the Oscars. But what's interesting to note is that Up in the Air, The Fantastic Mr.… Continue reading
Back in my Expendables review, I remarked how its story pretty much boiled down to how Hispanics are stupid and impotent folk who can't do anything without the white man helping them. I personally found the racist undertones very difficult to ignore, but… Continue reading
An intelligent and scary mindfuck. Continue reading
I just went to a second viewing of Scott Pilgrim and came back with some new thoughts and nitpicks. MAJOR SPOILERS are ahead, so you should only read further if you've seen the movie. And if you still haven't seen the movie, then I really need you to either… Continue reading
Any discussion of The Expendables must start with the cast. These actors, after all, are the reason why this film got made and the reason why anyone would be remotely interested in watching it. I don't know how Sly Stallone did it, but he gathered a who's who… Continue reading
Perhaps the most important part of any movie is the beginning. Nothing sets the tone of a movie like its opening scene. If a horror movie is going to succeed, it absolutely must be scary within the first five minutes. An action movie has to open with some… Continue reading
