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The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Lawyers

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

FILM REVIEW: ‘MICHAEL CLAYTON’ Written and Directed by Tony Gilroy Rated R 119 mins. Michael Clayton was nominated for an academy award, and after watching it, one wonders why. This would be after one has already seen No Country for Old Men and There Will be Blood, competitors for Best Picture this year. Then one […]

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 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 […]

A Life Better Left Unexamined

Friday, December 14th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘MARGOT AT THE WEDDING’ Written and Directed by Noah Baumbach Rated R 91 mins. Although Margot at the Wedding features an ensemble cast, the focus is on Nicole Kidman’s Margot, and quite literally, the lens. Noah Baumbach both writes and directs the film, and allowed to his cinematographer to use “old” lenses and […]

To Live and Die in West Texas

Monday, November 19th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN’ Written by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Based in the Novel by Cormac McCarthy Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Rated R 122 mins. When the Coen brothers direct a movie based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy, you really have no idea what to expect. This […]

The Devil You Know is Better…

Monday, November 19th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD Written by Kelly Masterson Directed by Sydney Lumet Rated R 119 mins. The title of Sydney Lumet’s latest film come from an old Irish blessing: “May you be in heaven for 30 seconds before the Devil knows you’re dead.” It’s this theme of who knows what that […]

It Takes A Village…

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘LARS AND THE REAL GIRL’ Written by Nancy Oliver Directed by Craig Gillespie Rated PG-13 106 mins. If a man wants to be alone so he can fantasize about being in love, can we call that man a hermit? Lars is the quintessential loner (one suspects Asperger’s, but that would be too easy). […]

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