Life in a Day – A Movie in a Sentence
(image via AceShowbiz.com) Remember when the internet asked people to turn on their video cameras and record the events of a single day of their lives?…
Reviews
The Change-Up – If There Were a Fountain, I’d Wish to Be in a Different Theater…Maybe
Confusingly, The Change-Up fluctuates between a decently acted film that boarders on endearing, and the dumbest, trope and cliché-ridden film that I’ve seen in a…
Burning Man – To Be or Not to Be a Terrorist
(image via Woodland Trust) 1995 offered numerous options for the American kid who preferred outrage over sloth. There were corporate scumbags in America to loathe….
Time of the Wolf – A Post-Apocalyptic Pre-Apocalypse Film
While it falls behind Funny Games, The Piano Teacher, Cache, and The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke’s Time of the Wolf is certainly worth a look…
Captain America – Perhaps It’s Best Not to Know Who Went Before Steve Rogers
In an earlier post, I tackled the connection between Steve Rogers’ transformation into Captain America as a government sponsored PED initiative, and while I still stand…
Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Clever Homage or an Experiment With Motion Capture?
Should a 2011 prequel that resembles its 1968 sequel be hailed for paying homage to its predecessor, most notably with a cultishly referential line like…
Crazy, Stupid, Love – Not to be Confused with Eat, Pray, Meh
Take a couple that has been married for twenty five years. Add a dash of midlife crisis until it yields infidelity and divorce. Slather the…
Attack the Block – By Far the Best Alien Movie this Week
With the rash of alien-invasion films over the past few years, it’s not surprising that two such films battled it out for the top spot…
Gasland – Drink Bottled Water or Take Your Chances with “Some Bizarre Scientific Experiments”
There’s plenty to be said for Gasland, the Oscar-nominated, 2010 documentary from Josh Fox, who grew up and currently lives on the Marcellus Shale, “the…
Beats, Rhymes, and Life – An Iceberg Ahead
Thanks to True Hollywood Story and Behind the Music, watching music-centered biopics and documentaries is often akin to watching Titanic in that you are relegated to waiting for the boat…