Review: Inglourious Basterds

I’m really not a Tarantino fan at all. Sure, I saw Kill Bill 1 & 2, and I saw Planet Terror/Deathproof. The latter two were pretty lackluster films, and that sentiment seemed to trickle down even to the most committed die-hard fans of the bizarre director. I feel as if that whenever you talk Tarantino [...]

Christopher Nolan gives you…

It’s all a mystery right now, and that’s how Nolan works. Nobody knew much of anything about either of the Batman films or The Prestige well before they were released. So sit, scratch your head, and watch that mind-bending, amazing looking trailer a few times. His track record shows he won’t [...]

Review: Wolverine

Way, way back, before comic book movies were keeping Hollywood afloat at the box office (along with Pixar I suppose), that industry decided to get its feet wet in a big way with X-Men. The first of what would be a trilogy of movies, was absolutely spectacular. Then came the sequel, X2, which was possibly [...]

Review: Observe and Report

Alright I’ve been running this since early 2008 I believe, and I’ve never phoned one in. Never cheated on a movie review. But due to so much busy days and weeks lately (my last post was back in March!), I may have to skim this one.
I came into watching Observe and Report without high expectations [...]

Review: Coraline

Once and for all, everyone finally knows for sure:Tim Burton did not direct The Nightmare Before Christmas! The times you hear about that movie are when there’s news about him; his name is always, always attached. And understandably I suppose, if you want to sell it you have to attach the most marketable name. He [...]

Review: Revolutionary Road

There have been too many instances when a director will take a chance on two A-list actors to ‘run’ their movie. Too often you see movies with big names attached that fall by the way side because the actors are there, but without substance, they can scream all the want at each other…it still looks [...]

Review: The Wrestler

I don’t know where Mickey Rourke was for all these years. I don’t even know what rumors are true: if he moved to France (for various reasons) for a long, long time, if he became a true outcast of Hollywood, and why he came back to do a film like Domino. But I do know [...]

FINAL TOP 10 OF 2009 PREDICTION

Below are my predictions made for the year at the movies for 2009. There are a lot of good looking movies coming out this calender year, but this is my final draft at what I think the top 10 might look like. Last year I had the top spot – The Dark Knight – [...]

Review: Ghost Town

Obviously, I caught this movie a bit late (it was out in theaters briefly in the early fall), but I’m tremendously glad I saw it before 2008 ended – it was one of the biggest surprises of the year. People know all about The Office, but they don’t know about the architect behind it, Ricky [...]

Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still

According to IMDB.com, the mega internet movie database, David Scarpa’s only experience in film is writer for The Last Castle back in 2001. So, what the hell does that have to do with this? Scarpa is the man who wrote the screenplay for the 2008 remake of the classic film, The Day the Earth Stood [...]