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P.S. I Love You

Rating: 2/10
This film certainly takes the cake for worst title of 2007. No guy would be caught dead buying tickets to see or renting a movie called P.S. I Love You. It is, however, clearly your typical chick flick. You’ve got an American girl Holly (Hillary Swank) who meets an Irish guy Gerry (Gerard [...]

Meet Bill

Rating: 3/10
I tend to enjoy movies about midlife crises. You can build a wonderful story around a character whose well-established life is falling apart. You can keep the audience on their toes because in the midst of a crisis, it’s not always clear in which direction a character will go. “Meet Bill” falls under the [...]

Blu-ray Is Golden

As the resolution of TVs has increased, normal DVDs just don’t cut it anymore. For a feature length film, a standard DVD provides a resolution of roughly 720 x 480 pixels. High definition video, however, has a resolution of around 1920 x 1080 pixels. That is roughly 6 times the resolution of normal DVD video.
Scientists [...]

Transformers

Rating: 4/10
Disclaimer: I am not a fan of the blockbuster. By definition, it’s designed to reach the biggest movie-going audience possible, compromising any artistic credibility. It has to be violent without being too violent, sexy without being too sexy, serious, yet funny, non-offensive, and so on. Most importantly, a blockbuster has to be big, intimidating, [...]

Just Like Heaven

Rating: 5/10
On the one hand, I had to see this movie to check out Jon Heder’s Napoleon Dynamite follow-up. |’m also a huge fan of Mark Ruffalo’s work in You Can Count on Me. Just Like Heaven’s premise, however, a leap of faith romantic comedy, and a Reese Witherspoon lead were major drawbacks.
Witherspoon plays overworked, [...]

The Number 23

Rating:1/10
Yikes. Everyone already knows this movie is ridiculously awful. I thought Jim Carrey was pretty good in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and am willing to give him a chance when it comes to a non-comedy genre. This movie starts with Carrey’s character, Walter Sparrow, an animal control officer, trying to catch a dog. [...]



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