Archive for January, 2008

Something Borrowed, Something New

Monday, January 28th, 2008

FILM REVIEW: ’27 DRESSES’ Written by Aline Brosh McKenna Directed by Anne Fletcher Rated PG-13 107 mins. They’re called chick flicks, and that’s supposed to be disparaging. Or sometimes they’re called formulaic, movies where you know exactly everything that’s going to happen. But movies of this nature shouldn’t be judged on their predictability. Rather, they […]

When Chuck Goes Up

Friday, January 25th, 2008

FILM REVIEW: ‘GOOD LUCK CHUCK’ Written by Josh Stolberg , based on a short story by Steve Glenn Directed by Mark Helfrich Rated R 96 mins. I’ve seen bad movies that were actually pretty good, and good movies that weren’t really so great. Waiting was not a good movie, but I enjoyed it. Same for […]

I See You See Me See Me See You

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

VIDEO GAME REVIEW: ‘PORTAL’ Developed by Valve Corporation Distributed by EA Platforms: Xbox 360, Pc Genre: 1ST Person Platform Puzzle Portal is only one fifth of The Orange Box, along with Half Life 2, HL2:L Episode One, HL2: Episode 2, and Team Fortress 2. So maybe I should only write one fifth of a review, […]

I Know You Are, But What Am I?

Monday, January 21st, 2008

FILM REVIEW: ‘I AM LEGEND’ Written by Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman Directed by Francis Lawrence Rated PG-13 101 mins. What does this say about a movie: I thought I wrote this review already. What I actually did was write a few sentences about it on my main blog. This is what I wrote: “[Choosing […]

Poseidon Takes Manhattan

Friday, January 18th, 2008

FILM REVIEW: ‘CLOVERFIELD’ Written by Drew Goddard Directed by Matt Reeves Rated PG-13 85 mins. I’d been looking forward to Cloverfield since I saw the trailer for it at last summer’s Transformers. I went to the web, got into the viral marketing thing. I bought a Slusho t-shirt. I made a page for my blog […]

Left Politics, Middle East, Right Stuff

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

FILM REVIEW: ‘THE KINGDOM’ Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan Directed by Peter Berg Rated R 110 mins. People are going to compare The Kingdom to Syriana, and I think that misses the point. It would be sort of like comparing Braveheart with Michael Clayton. You can go ahead and compare Braveheart with Rob Roy. If […]