Crazy Heart Review

ArchiveBy Graham ElwoodMay 11, 2011Leave a comment

Drinking whiskey, long drives to shit gigs, sneaking out of hotel rooms in the morning. Ah the road. What a wonderful part of being an entertainer. Hoping for free drinks and a comped meal to take back to the motel. Debating with yourself about life choices. Am I living a dream of freedom from a boring life? Or have I failed and become a broken down version of myself that wasn’t even real to begin with? When you’re successful it’s called being an eccentric artist, when you’ve failed it’s a big hot bowl of all your faults that you’ve got to jam down your rotten yap hole every day. That’s what Bad Blake shows us, or at least tries too.

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It’s Complicated Review

ArchiveBy Jackie KashianMay 11, 2011Leave a comment

Writer/Director Nancy Meyers, in another installment of “Mingling Wrinkles” (you’ll remember her first episode, Something’s Gotta Give, with Jack Nicolson and Diane Keaton); older people “get it on.”

 

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Youth In Revolt Review

ArchiveBy Neil WeakleyMay 11, 2011Leave a comment

Well, Michael Cera is making quite a career of being the quirky, sensitive nerd. Maybe too much of a career, in fact. You know how we’re all getting sick of seeing Will Ferrell over-saturating the comedy genre? Oh, you’re sick of him, you just don’t know it yet. Well, that’s the way Michael Cera is…

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The Book of Eli Review

ArchiveBy Chris ManciniMay 11, 2011Leave a comment

This one was a bit of a mind-bender. Was it an action movie? Allegorical religious drama? Science Fiction? A Mad Max/The Road/Fahrenheit 451 ripoff? Actually, yes to all of the above. The world has already ended. Again. I never thought I’d say this, but I’m getting tired of seeing the world end on screen. The…

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Daybreakers Review

ArchiveBy Neil WeakleyMay 11, 2011Leave a comment

Yet another entry in the long line of vampire related movies being made recently.  Can we stop with the vampires already?  Let’s move on to some other monster, but not werewolves, because that’s about to happen anyway.  Maybe the Incredible Shrinking Man?  Mmm, no.  How about The Invisible Man?  Uuh, no, no.  Maybe Food of…

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