00s movies
Movie Review: Creed
3.5 stars out of 5 So, there’s this new installment in a long-running movie series, started in the ’70s, good vs. evil, iconic music. But people are especially psyched for this one because it consciously connects back to the “classic era.” Of course, I am referring to Creed, the latest chapter in the Rocky saga. […]
Movie Review: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
3 stars out of 5 For recent vintage coming-of-age movies set in Pittsburgh, Adventureland (2009) is—in my not-so-humble opinion—far and away the best. Coming in second: 2012’s The Perks of Being of a Wallflower. Taking the bronze from the Iron City? Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. In a nutshell, our teenage protagonist befriends […]
Movie Review: Aloha
3.5 stars out of 5 Cameron Crowe had a hell of a run early in his directorial career: Say Anything…, Singles, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous. Since then, he’s still out there trying, doing decent work, but hasn’t quite reached the same heights: Vanilla Sky (compelling), Elizabethtown (underrated), We Bought a Zoo (didn’t see it, but […]
Movie Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel
4 stars out of 5 You know I’m a big Wes Anderson fan, right? Since I’ve been ranking movies on here, The Fantastic Mr. Fox was my No. 5 film of 2009, and I thought Moonrise Kingdom was 2012’s best movie. Oh, and Rushmore is one of my all-time favorites. So let’s say that I […]
Movie Review: This Is the End
3.5 stars out of 5 Wow, that Seth Rogen really enjoys the marijuana, doesn’t he? OK, we get it. Can we retire that as a comedic concept now? Thank you. That being said, Rogen and his buddy Evan Goldberg have slapped together a very entertaining, consistently funny movie with This Is the End. Not as […]
Thank You, Siskel & Ebert
It must’ve been 4th grade. Mr. Skadden asked the class if we watched anything on PBS. Ooh, me. I watch Sneak Previews. I recall being the only one who chimed in with that response. (I was already a bit of an oddball.) And I have no idea why I was watching. Basically all of I […]
Movie Review: A Good Day To Die Hard
3.5 stars out of 5 I’ll keep seeing Die Hard movies as long as they keep making them. They’ll wheel out Bruce Willis, it’ll be “Yippie-ki— wait, what was I talking about?” and I’ll be sitting there in the virtuo-theater munching eCorn. But if they expect me to remember anything from film to film, they […]
Movie Review: 56 Up
4 stars out of 5 First of all, this is not a quickie sequel to This Is 40, and thank goodness for that. It is, however, definitely a sequel, the 8th installment in Michael Apted’s fascinating “Up” documentary series. (Apted was an assistant on the first one, Seven Up!, back in 1964, and has been […]
DVD Review: Margaret
4 stars out of 5 I don’t know whether to include Margaret in my end-of-year list of best films, and there are a few reasons: 1) I saw this on video, not in the theater, and I generally only consider first-run films. 2) I have no idea what the official year of release is for […]
Movie Review: The Bourne Legacy
3.5 stars out of 5 I saw the first Bourne movie on a plane, and liked it a lot. The second one, I watched on-demand at home, and also enjoyed quite a bit. Vowed to see the third one in a theater, which I did, and by gum, very satisfying once again. Had the fourth […]
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