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 [...]
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, [...]
Rating: 6/10
The latest pairing of the Farrelly Brothers and Ben Stiller is a loose remake of a 1972 film of the same name — a tale of a honeymoon gone very wrong. In the Farrelly version we have Eddie, played by Stiller, a 40-year-old catching a bunch of slack from his father and best friend [...]
Rating: 7/10
Being a huge Joy Division fan, I was quite torn when I heard a movie was being made about their tragic story. Or rather, the tragic story of their frontman Ian Curtis. After all, the remaining members went on to fame and fortune as New Order — one of few bands to overcome the [...]
Rating: 2/10
Walk Hard is a portrayal of fictional music legend Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly). He’s slept with 411 women, married three of them, spawned 22 children and 14 stepchildren. He starred in his own 70’s TV show, befriended Elvis, The Beatles, a chimpanzee, has taken all drugs known to man, and has tried to [...]
Rating: 6/10
“The Savages” seems to follow a recent trend of creating thoroughly miserable motion pictures. I mean, who enjoys watching a story about two siblings watching their father slowly deteriorate and die? A show of hands please. That’s right, no one.
Any glimpse of entertainment value is salvaged by the dead-on interplay of the sibling pair [...]
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