10s movies
Movie Review: Top Five
4 stars out of 5 I am always fascinated to see the publicity machine at work. Chris Rock had a movie coming out, that movie was aimed at me as an audience member, so suddenly, Chris Rock was EVERYWHERE i might possibly look: magazine covers, TV shows, radio interviews, etc. (His very funny Letterman appearance […]
Movie Review: Inherent Vice
3.5 stars out of 5 Twenty years ago, maybe a little more, I picked up a used copy of V. by Thomas Pynchon. I tried to read it, I really did. I like to see things through, you know? But it was really tough going; hard to understand. At some point, I put the bookmark […]
Movie Review: Big Eyes
4 stars out of 5 The commercials looked… frothy. Had Tim Burton gone soft? (Hmm, and he has been making kids’ movies….) And then there was news that he’d split from Helena Bonham Carter. Frankly, I was a little worried about our beloved modern-day master of the macabre. I should not have been concerned. Big […]
Movie Review: Dumb and Dumber To
1.5 stars out of 5 It’s weird to think how much has changed since I saw the original Dumb and Dumber for the first time, which was about two weeks ago on Comedy Central. You see, back in 1994, I avoided Jim Carrey movies. I’d enjoyed him in the short-lived 1985 TV series The Duck […]
Movie Review: Foxcatcher
4 stars out of 5 On March 24, 2006, I was face-to-face with director Bennett Miller and was pretty pissed at the guy—but I’ll save that anecdote for another time. For now I’ll say that, personal feelings aside, I’m a big fan of his work. All four of his features range from very good to […]
Movie Review: Gone Girl
3.5 stars out of 5 This was a rare instance where I was thinking “I am not really enjoying this movie” and then later, thought, “No, wait, I am enjoying it.” Now, I didn’t read the book Gone Girl. Truth be told, until the movie came out, I didn’t even know there was a book […]
Movie Review: St. Vincent
3 stars out of 5 I should’ve waited till Thanksgiving. This is the perfect see-with-the-folks-on-Thanksgiving movie: not good, not bad, but not offensive, and eminently watchable. Maybe I’ll see it again, if it’s still playing. Bill Murray does something interesting in St. Vincent: He acts. This is not necessarily a good thing: Like George Clooney, […]
Movie Review: Birdman
3.5 stars out of 5 I was very excited to see Birdman. I was really intrigued while watching Birdman. Now I’m just trying to decide how much I actually liked it. You’ve got Michael Keaton basically playing Michael Keaton. Actor who starred in superhero movies and walked away is now struggling to be relevant. I’m […]
Movie Review: Revenge of the Mekons
3.5 stars out of 5 I ♥ Mekons. That was the title of their album the first time I saw the band. But I really do heart them. I guess I’d first heard of the Mekons when I was in college and have hearted them ever since. Anyway, there was no doubt I was going to […]
Movie Review: The American Side
4 stars out of 5 Spare and gritty, The American Side is modern noir with a sharp comic twist. It stars Greg Stuhr, and you might be asking yourself, “Who is Greg Stuhr?” What, you weren’t hanging around Carnegie Mellon University during the turn of the ’90s? Well, I was; what’s wrong with you? Since […]
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