Backcountry is a well-acted film with a familiar premis
Foxcatcher chronicles the tragic partnership of multi-m
Hell hath no fury like a fairy whose wings have been
Based on the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name, and typical of its author’s material, Filth offers a cynical, corrupt world replete with sexual emasculation and a seemingly endemic Scottish self-hatred. Anyone familiar with Trainspotting should recall that Scotland is not even good enough to be filled with Wankers. Instead they’re a country “colonized by Wankers.” […]
Danny Boyle’s film plays like a rave. And, if you’ve seen Kids, you know it can’t end well.
Being, seemingly, one of only two people across the globe who disliked Steig Larsson’s trilogy, I didn’t flock to see David Fincher’s screen adaptation. In part, there are certain plot points in the novel that just drive me a bit nuts, particularly the incredible progression of Blumquist’s discovery of a woman whose honeymoon fortuitously took place during […]
In what might be the most beautifully shot Best Picture nominee of 2010, 127 Hours establishes Danny Boyle as a king of symbology from the opening triptych sequence that gives offers examples of technology, religion, neon-laden businesses, devices of our consumption and a lone Aron Ralston (James Franco) driving a car. Solidly edited, the images pit Ralston’s sole […]
The first word out of my mouth after seeing a “great” movie is more often than not, an expletive. Followed by an exhale. I would’ve have thought with “The Social Network”, closing with The Beatles classic “Baby, You’re a Rich Man” would have evoked that emotion. It didn’t. It did however after Leo DiCaprio’s final line of […]
I caught a badass swine flu bug or something on Friday and was incapacitated on my couch for much of the past 60 hours. So all I did was sleep, watch some baseball, sleep, watch some movies and sleep. Here are some quick recaps of the eight flicks I watched, which ranged from atrocious to pretty good. […]
