Rating: 6/10
“Revolutionary Road”, the first post-Titanic reunion of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, is first and foremost a showcase of some pretty amazing acting. Kate and Leo play a married couple with two kids trying to make good on the hopes and ideals they held during their courtship. The story carries a nuclear amount [...]
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: 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 [...]
Rating: 3/10
When you’ve got hind quarters like Jessica Alba, acting skills are optional. In Into the Blue, she plays Sam, a young woman living in the Bahamas with her diving instructor boyrfriend, Jared (Paul Walker). Together they scrape together a humble life on an old house boat. For Jared, being a diving instructor is just [...]
Rating: 3/10
Harsh Times, directed by the David Ayer, writer of Training Day, is the story of a former army ranger. Jim Luther Davis, played by Christian Bale, readjusting back to civilian life. Davis is one majorly conflicted guy. On the one hand he’s got his best friend Mike Alonzo (Freddy Rodriguez) and a penchance for [...]
Rating: 4/10
Street Kings is advertised as being directed by the writer of Training Day, which in my opinion, doesn’t say a whole lot. The ability to write a good film does not automatically make you a good director. Furthermore, Street Kings is not even written by David Ayer, the writer of Training Day, just directed [...]
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: 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 [...]
Rating: 5/10
An up and coming public prosecutor with a near perfect record takes on what looks like a cut-and-dry attempted murder case. Only problem is, it’s actually not really in the bag. Even after a hasty confession, the accused has done a great job covering his tracks. The bullet is lodged in his comatose wife’s [...]
Rating: 6/10
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