Category Archives: Reviews
Review: Zero Dark Thirty
Storytelling is, by its nature, manipulative, and plenty of great movies are so because they know how to twist your perceptions to their purpose. A well-crafted, emotional workout, whether thrilling, tear-jerking, or comical, makes for one hell of an experience, and the degree of pleasure you get from letting a movie works its magic on …
Review: Argo
Ben Affleck’s Argo is a very good new movie about a very fake old movie, one “made” in Iran during the volatile infant months of the Iranian Republic. Animated storyboard sketches at the beginning of the film offer a colourful crash course on Iran’s revolutionary history up to late 1979 -the waning months of the …
Review: Looper
Has the future started yet? I was wondering that yesterday, when I pulled out my iPhone (4 not 5, i’m not that hip), and watched as a little blue dot representing me on a GPS tracked my progress to a theatre, where I’d see a movie using a ticket I had purchased out of thin …
Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Originally Posted June 25th, 2010 It’s Christmas Eve in Stockholm, and disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist is given an intriguing proposition: learn what happened to the heir of the industrious Vangar family, who disappeared forty years ago, in exchange for the proof that can restore his name. A hesitant Mikael accepts, but before long, he becomes …
Review: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Originally Posted August 14th, 2010 When you’ve grown up in a word of arcades and consoles, it’s sometimes easy to forget how weird many of the basic concepts of gaming are. Mario is a series about an overweight plumber jumping on the heads of giant mushrooms and turning them into coins. Pac-man has you guiding …
Review: The King’s Speech
Originally Posted December 28th, 2010 Albert Frederick Arthur George did not have an easy life growing up. He was plagued with health issues and was constantly tormented by his older brother Edward. His father, who left him in the care of various nannies, expected greatness from him, even though Albert’s older brother was likely to …
Review: The Expendables
Originally Posted August 25th, 2010 Come on. We all knew this was how it was going to turn out. No matter how badly we wanted to believe they could do it, too much time has passed. When we all heard that Sylvester Stallone was going to unite the biggest action heroes of the last thirty …
Review: The Kids Are All Right
Originally Posted August 17th, 2010 Arriving just in time to send the summer off in style, the year’s biggest art-house flick not involving Swedish goth hackers is The Kids Are All Right. The film, about the mounting struggles two women in a domestic partnership face when the biological father of their children reenters their lives, …
Review: Recount
Originally Posted July 20th, 2010 When major decisions are determined by thin margins, it’s easy to ask oneself, “What if…?” Take, for example, the presidential election of The United States in 2000, a race that was, at one time, separated by less than two hundred votes. What if the machines in Volusia County hadn’t gone …
Review: The Losers
Originally Posted July 23rd, 2010 In 2010, a crack commando unit was accused of a crime they didn’t commit. Hunted by law enforcement, they promptly escaped to the underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you …
