Category Archives: Recommended

The A-Team

Posted on June 13, 2010

Joe Carnahan’s ‘re-imagining’ of the ’80s TV series keeps enough of the original to connect with the built-in audience and adds enough smarts to justify the big screen leap. This movie, for me, epitomizes the mindless summer action comedy with … Continue reading →

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Kick-Ass

Posted on April 20, 2010

Saw this hit graphic novel adaptation last night with a buddy and walked out confused. One the one hand the script totally demolishes the normal human superhero genre (such as Batman), delivers some great laughs, captures the teenage condition almost … Continue reading →

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Surf's Up

Posted on April 27, 2008

Sony Film is attempting to establish a beach head in the computer animation space to complete against Pixar/Disney and Fox but hasn’t made a great deal of progress yet. Surf’s Up is their third major release, better than either Open … Continue reading →

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Reign Over Me

Posted on April 19, 2008

There have been a number of movies in the last few years focused on people dealing with the emotional devastation of 9/11 and, for the most point, I tend to avoid them as too painful or too likely to be … Continue reading →

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Advise & Consent

Posted on April 19, 2008

When I was about 10 or 12 I started reading Allen Drury’s Cold War tales of political intrigue in Washington, D.C. He had such an imaginative way of retelling what the real life pundits and politicos tried to warn us … Continue reading →

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Next

Posted on April 7, 2008

Nicholas Cage has starred in many big action movies over the years but given his physical and emotional natures has been a poor choice for the roles (e.g., Gone in 60 Seconds, Face/Off, Con Air). Characters that are a bit … Continue reading →

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Spartacus

Posted on March 30, 2008

This 1960 movie is one of those classics I’m willing to bet most people under the age of 60 have never watched but still feel they know all about. I admit I was one of them until the other day. … Continue reading →

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Shoot 'Em Up

Posted on March 22, 2008

After a career mostly spent writing children’s animated dinosaur movies and writing and directing fluffy romantic pics, Michael Davis steps up and, in my book, scores a near bullseye with a misunderstood satire of the recent Jason Stathem/Vin Diesel ultra-violent … Continue reading →

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Definitely, Maybe

Posted on March 22, 2008

Love, Actually is one of our (my wife and I) favorite movies, which we watch every New Year’s Eve (or Day), and Ryan Reynolds is turning out to show up pretty well most times too so when we saw a … Continue reading →

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Fight Club

Posted on March 1, 2008

Nearly a decade after its release I finally saw this 1999 Brad Pitt/Edward Norton cult classic that, more than anything else, reminds me of a dramatic version of Office Space. Both are highly negative looks at the life of a … Continue reading →

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