Review: The Young Victoria
The Young Victoria continues the trend of successful royalty based period films that feel fresh and cotemporary and historically intact all the same and it is all grounded by a great turn by Emily Blunt as the title character. The film opens as a political battle of posturing and manipulation surrounds the British thrown as the only heir is in fact →
Review: Edge of Darkness
Mel Gibson with Martin Campbell returns from a long drought of staring in a picture with the revenge thriller Edge of Darkness which allows Gibson to do some nice work but falls flat pretty much everywhere else. Gibson plays Craven, a Boston police detective, whose daughter almost instantly upon her return home for a visit is almost instantly killed by in →
Review: When in Rome
It didn’t take long to get a huge stink bomb of a movie this year in 010 and that movie is When in Rome. The movie is so poorly written, is almost devoid of humor, is absolutely absurd, and gets nothing out of a decent slate of talent that made the unfortunate decision of taking on a role in →
Queue Review: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The newest animated tale from Sony Pictures Animation is an entertaining and fun adaptation of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs that successfully appeals to all audiences but doesn’t do anything particularly special to launch itself into the upper echelon of animated works, especially this year. Our story follows Flint Lockwood a loner scientist who has spent his whole life inventing →
Suggestion Box (Jan. 18 – 24)
Glee News – Neil Patrick Harris is going to appear in an episode this spring, and it just so happens to be the same episode that Joss Whedon is directing. Why so excited? Well the last time they worked together we got some Dr. Horrible magic. If you still haven’t checked that out then you really need to, and you →
Queue Review: Sugar
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s second picture is another low budget indie effort that is all at once a fantastic portrait of both the Dominican baseball path, the pressures of the minor leagues, and immigrant life in America. Sugar is a member of the Kansas City baseball school that farms players into their minor league system with hope of finding the →
Gaming Review – Gears of War
Side note – Because I am so popular… Okay, because I have one other friend that has this game, I have yet to just play it by myself so everything I say is in response to the co-op campaign mode of the game. I may have made a mistake by playing the sequel to this game first, but Gears of War →
Rental Review – A Perfect Getaway (Unrated Director's Cut)
My idea of a perfect getaway may not involve suspicion, violence and gore, but it sure makes for a suspenseful film. A Perfect Getaway follows a couple, Cliff and Cydney Anderson, honeymooning on the Hawaiian Islands. While taking in the scenery of the great outdoors during an 11-mile nature trek across one of the islands, they come across a group →
Spike Jonze Short Film – I'm Here – Updated
UPDATE: Hit the jump and watch the trailer and hit the link to Aint It Cool News for a new pic and a website is live as well at ImHereMovie.com. It's called, I'm Here, and will premiere at Sundance this year, now I have to find out how the hell I am going to see this. Here is a cropped image of →
Suggestion Box (Jan. 11 – 17)
Final Fantasy XIII International Trailer – I am not one with the patience to play a turn based RPG, but I will sit next to someone and watch them play the whole game if it is anything like this trailer. Check it out here. Mass Effect 2 Planetary Exploration Dev Diary – Here are just some more ways that the sequel →
Now Playing Review – Daybreakers
It’s hard to believe that there once was a time when vampires were not the subject of a multitude of TV shows and films. Heck, even Buffy had to mix it up and slay demons from time to time because the vampires did what they did best and lurked in the shadows. However, now that the slayer has →
While I Was Streaming: World's Greatest Dad
Bobcat Goldthwait’s latest film is a pitch black comedy revolving around the struggle of a writer who wants to be famous and the revisionist history nature of high school and the results are a solid effort that tells a touching if a bit disturbed story of family. Goldthwait’s film revolves around a single dad, Lance, and his annoying douche of a →
Review: The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
Werner Herzog in spirit sequel to the 1992 film Bad Lieutenant is a trippy, darkly humorous, detective story with Nicholas Cage’s Terrance taking us on a wild ride into depravity that we can’t really predict. During the mayhem of hurricane Katrina Terrance and his partner watch a prisoner trapped in a cell as the water is slowly rising around him, Terrance →
James Cameron's New Film – Laser Cats 5!!!
Ok, so maybe it's just the new digital short on SNL, but it is fantastic! [vodpod id=Groupvideo.4488590&w=625&h=515&fv=allowFullScreen%3Dtrue%26] Laser Cats 5!!!
Review: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Terry Gilliam’s latest is a bizarre and imaginative tale that while a bit scatter shot and unclear at times it is still rather entertaining and allows for a great ensemble to have a lot of fun. Dr. Parnassus is an old man, centuries old in fact, and he is involved in an elaborate betting game with the Devil that has gone →
Review: Daybreakers
The Spierig Brothers get a bit of money to work with and create a wonderfully realized world in which vampires make up the majority of the earth’s population and while things may get a bit corny and convenient at times the film remains entertaining and solid due to its great work from its three great lead actors. The world is populated →
Review: The Book of Eli
The Hughes Brothers post-apocalyptic adventure doesn’t bring a whole lot new to the table but has a good lead cast that keeps the film entertaining to a point but will have you scratching your head at the logistics of the film and make you a bit restless with not a whole lot going on. Following a lone wander, Eli, through the →
Rental Review – Jennifer's Body
Screenwriter Diablo Cody is back with Jennifer’s Body, following up Juno with another film about a foreign being taking up residence in a high school girl’s body. This time around she goes the demonic route with a darkly comedic “horror” film that sadly fails to live up to its full potential. Though the title may apply more to the idea →
The Decade’s Best: 2000-09 – Part 3 – 32-1
Ok, final part of the list, before I get into it I am going to give a couple other films some attention that I think might have deserved to be on the list but for whatever reason aren't and also rattle off a couple of random awards that come to me in the moment. With that said, hit the →
Review: The Lovely Bones
Peter Jackson’s latest adaptation is visually stunning but feels like a cliff notes version of the novel and on its own right doesn’t go deep enough into these characters relationships and feelings to connect us as emotionally as possible with the rich material. The story follows the path of Susie Salmon a 14 year old girl that is murdered and raped →
The Decade’s Best: 2000-09 – Part 2 – 65-33
Ok, part 2 of my Best of the Decade 2000-09 and before you head on to this portion of the list make sure you read Part 1 100-66. On with the list... 65. Road to Perdition Sam Mendes follow up to his heralded debut is a graphic novel adaptation that dives into the mobster world of Illinois and the survival of a family →
The Decade's Best: 2000-09 – Part 1 – 100-66
Let it be know that this list is by no means definitive nor correct, just one person’s opinion. The reality of putting together something like this is borderline stupid, put I am going to try none the less. You see, this list isn’t a statement of the decade’s most finely crafted films, nor the most re-watchable, and not →
Free Conan O'Brien!
Read his statement from yesterday after the jump. People of Earth: In the last few days, I've been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I've been getting paid to do what I love most and, in a world with →
Wes Anderson's Stop Motion Acceptance of NBR Award
This is why I love Wes Anderson a brilliant way to accept the award of this brilliant movie. Hit the jump to see the video! [vodpod id=Groupvideo.4488640&w=425&h=350&fv=] Thanks to I Watch Stuff for the embed.
