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The World's Greatest Lover
POSTED on January 11th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
★★★★
January is always a strange month. After the hectic season of
holiday parties and year-end celebrations (where I'm usually the
entertainment), I spend the first two to three weeks of every year with an empty calendar. The upside is I'm able to give myself over completely to creativity. It's the perfect month to start new projects and fully realize bizarre songs dreamed up in a caffeine haze (see this week's B-Side). But most importantly, it's the ultimate month for watching movies. Believe...
The Debt
POSTED on September 9th, 2011 at 10:38 am
★★★
Women are terrible at making plans to see movies. I'm not blaming the opposite sex for my lack of reviews these past 5 months, but they definitely have had something to do with it. My silence is the sum of female indisicion and individual preference: I really like movies with aliens, robots, and vampires. After 4 days of negotions, a compromise was reached. Rather than see The Help , a feel good, civil rights tale about maids in the south featuring Emma Stone's hairpiece, or Fright Night ,...
Hanna
POSTED on April 10th, 2011 at 7:20 pm
★★
This is one of the strangest movies I have ever seen. Even in the most bizarre works of David Lynch, John Waters, The Coen Brothers, Spike Jonze, Tom Tykwer, and Charlie Kaufman, there's a consistancy of weirdness. Joe Wright's latest is mixed bag of nonsensical soft focus close-ups, slow motion action sequences, and chase scenes with an overuse of upside down photography, all set to a Chemical Brothers industrial house soundtrack. Everyone was gaga over Wright after his first 2 features,...
Limitless
POSTED on March 28th, 2011 at 7:28 am
★★★
Everybody loves a winner. We love winners so much, we will tolerate pretty much anything from them. Chris Brown's album is top 5 on iTunes despite violent outbursts in dressing rooms and on a women's face. Charlie Sheen had a drug fueled, manic depressive episode on National TV, and booked a 22-date speaking tour with a $100,000 per night guarantee on the back of it. Side note: does anybody find it odd that Good Morning America has become the nexus point for all things terrible and bizarre?...
Unknown
POSTED on March 9th, 2011 at 6:13 am
★★★
I gotta say I was excited for this one. A couple years ago, Liam Nesson came roaring back from the world of leads-who-have-become-character-actors with the B-grade action flick, Taken . In it he brought new meaning to Sally Field's proclamation, Not Without My Daughter . After 93 minutes of Liam tracking his kin across Europe with a variety of far-fetched methods (identifying perps by the way they say "Thank You" in Albanian), and watching him single-handedly take down the Parisian Human...