Internet Film Critic Society: 2011 Year End Awards
I vote for these, even if I didn't get to see quite as much as I would like, but I felt pretty confident I wouldn't change much come February when I write up my year end list. For now this will have to hold you over till then as to where I fall, and I will say I don't agree →
Review: The Descendants
Alexander Payne returns from a seven year hiatus with the marvelous film, The Descendants, that is easily one of the best films of the year. George Clooney stars as Matt King, a successful lawyer who is the head of his family’s long held land trust which owns the largest plot of undeveloped land on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. The trust →
Review: The Ides of March
George Clooney's latest directorial effort, The Ides of March, is sharp, timely, and impeccably executed by his actors and team behind the camera. This political amalgamation is meant, I think, to open the eyes of average Americans to the cluster fuck that is the political theater going on behind the scenes in this country. Clooney uses the opportunity to not only →
Now Playing Review – The Ides of March
It’s very hard for me to get into anything involving politics: the news, debates, conversations, etc. Yes, I am one of those people. Just try to get me involved; I will give myself 5 minutes tops before the blank stare completely takes over my face as the droning noise of speech is washed away by thoughts of something more appealing →
For Your Renting Pleasure
This week I apparently decided to go with slightly older creature features (also reading Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, which both stays in the same vain and explains why I have only gotten two movies in). Both films wear their age in similar ways; however, From Dusk Till Dawn rises above this in other ways by creating a fun B-Film, while →
Review: The American
The second feature effort from Anton Corbijn is almost as good as his first and is a quiet, deliberate, and sexy thriller lead by the great George Clooney. Clooney stars as Jack/Edward, a hit man that is loosing his drive for the profession though is still as sharp as ever. After a too close for comfort encounter with some enemies he →
Eastern Promises 2 To Hit Screens Next Year?
David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen will be teaming up for a fourth time it seems, after their upcoming Sigmund Freud biopic shooting this year, and it will be for a sequel I am dying for, Eastern Promises 2. If you haven't seen the first film stop reading, go out and see it, and come back and read this. The film sets →
Review: Up in the Air
Up in the Air is a painfully honest film that not only looks into the lives of our three main leads but will cause a number of viewers to reflect back on their own in these troubling times. Jason Reitman adapts the novel by Walter Kim into a funny and sad tale that takes us all across the country and into →
Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson returns to the screen with a film that fits into his little world only this time with a bunch of talking animals from the wonderful fable by Roald Dahl. Mr. Fox was always a daring individual, and stole live stock for a living before he met Mrs. Fox and was planning on having a child with her. He →
Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats
Grant Heslov’s feature debut is an inspired, weird, odd, and fun tale that has some wonderful origins that far surpass an aimless plot that occupies the other half of the film. The plot surrounds a journalist, Bob Wilton, who is looking to maybe win his ex back by going to Iraq during the early stages of the second Iraq War to →
Review: 'Burn After Reading'
The Coen Bros. latest is an exercise in pitch black humor and absurdity that, after a bit of adjustment, is a solid comedy with some great work by the actors involved. Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) is a recently demoted CIA agent who decides quit and writes his memoirs instead. His wife, Katie (Tilda Swinton), is cheating on him with Harry (George →
Review: Leatherheads
George Clooney's latest directorial effort is a pretty entertaining affair, if you know what to expect going in. And what should you expect you might ask? The movie is a throwback homage to the screwball comedies of yesteryear and does an excellent job of capturing the spirit and fun of those films. Set in the 20's where college football →
Review: Michael Clayton
This is the kind of movie we need more of, intelligent thrillers, that keeps you guessing, constantly engages you in the picture, and doesn't take the audiences knowledge for granted. Tony Gilroy, writer of the Bourne movies, makes his directorial debut here and does a fantastic job and he made his job a lot easier by getting an amazing cast. George →
