Category Archives: Movie Reviews

Crazy Heart Review

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.

Youth In Revolt Review

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…

It’s Complicated Review

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.”

 

The Book of Eli Review

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…

Legion Review

Awesome: a group of people hole up in a diner in the middle of the desert because it turns out God has sent an army of angels down to wipe out the human race, and one of these people is pregnant with a baby that will be humanity’s salvation.  It’s gonna be war, man, war…

Daybreakers Review

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…

Avatar for Best Picture? Seriously?

  Now that Avatar has won a Golden Globe for best movie and it has been nominated for an Oscar for best movie, I feel I should explain why it sucks.  And, my God, are there a lot of reasons.  And don’t even get me started on Avatar being nominated for best screenplay by the…

Oscar 2010 Preview

Well, here we are again; it’s Oscar time!  It’s that time of year when the Academy rewards the best, most creative, most affecting, and certainly the best in the craft of film making of the past year.  Oh, wait, no, sorry, that’s what the Academy is SUPPOSED to do, however, this year, with the absurd…

Shine a Light on Buddy Guy

 As a long time fan of The Rolling Stones, I slipped Martin Scorsese’s “Shine a Light” concert/documentary into my DVD player, desperately wanting them to not suck. After all, rock and roll is thought of as a young man’s game, and their advancing age long ago became a stale topic for jokes. I was pleasantly…

Hey, ho, Let’s go! Rock ‘n’ Roll High School

  Roger Corman’s “Rock ‘N’ Roll High School” is one of the all-time best rock & roll movies. Corman is revered in Hollywood for shooting films on a shoestring budget, for never losing money on a film, and for giving some of the best filmmakers their start. The list includes Ron Howard, Francis Ford Coppola,…