Review: The Dark Knight

I’m not going to say that I LOVED this movie; I can easily point to lots of parts that I had a problem with. But I liked it. A lot. Mostly I like the whole concept. I like what Nolan has done with the whole Batman franchise. I mean, Batman had SO much potential and [...]

Playing catch-up

So, thanks to my temporary singularity, I have nothing to do after work, a TV all to myself, and a netflix account that I have nothing better to do than to fill up with stuff like “In the Mood for Love”, “Breathless”, and “Gilda” - stuff that me in my plural life will never have [...]

Review: Wristcutters: A love story

Man, they almost had me with this one. I mean, a movie about what it’s like to be a suicide trapped in limbo? As if limbo was some crappy, depressing, desert trailer park? Yes! I mean, No! It had potential and then just turned it into some dumb romantic comedy with Tom Waits thrown in [...]

Review: 27 Dresses

I don’t know why I bother. Seriously, I keep getting sucked into this “girl” thing: I see the romantic commercials with the pretty people in the pretty clothes and think “Hey, that seems like a good time”. I am so so dumb. Luckily I’m not alone. Lots of smart people get drawn into watching these [...]

Review: The Golden Compass

Dude, I really liked it. See, I HATED the Narnia movie and really felt let down - obviously the people who made those movies didn’t care about those books as much as I do. When I saw the Golden Compass, however, I felt totally understood. It was great. The little girl Me would have loved [...]

Review: Strange Wilderness

It seemed like a good idea. And then it got dumb really fast. It’s a Police Academy movie for stupid people - if you can imagine that. Maybe they got confused about their target demographic and ended up with a movie with G rated jokes that just happen to include drug orgy jokes. I didn’t [...]

Review: Semi-Pro

God help me I loved it! I’m sure this means that there’s something wrong with me but I laughed more during Semi-Pro than Anchorman (impossible!) plus it’s about BASKETBALL!!!

Review: Hurlyburly

So I’d heard about this movie for the last decade but I’d been putting off seeing it because I assumed it was going to just annoy me. Last week, though, I decided to buckle down and bring home a bunch of the movies that I’d been putting off seeing and Hurlyburly was first on my [...]

Review: Be Kind, Rewind

I loved it. Be Kind, Rewind was weird and clever and surprising and funny and beautiful. Of course, I have a soft spot for independent video stores…

Review: Charlie Bartlett

I can’t tell if this movie was some jaded industry type’s method for capitalizing on the rebellious desires of multiple generations of paying customers or if the writers were just really really lazy. Whatever the personal failings of the people involved, it was awful. And the problem is that it had potential. I mean the [...]