Category: Movies & TV
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Spider-Man 3
We saw Spider-Man 3 on Friday, as we’re big fans of the first and second installments. The second is one of the best comic superhero films out there, so the expectations were very high. It was a lot of fun, and they packed tons into the film. It’s a very entertaining and thrilling flick, but…
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300, the Film
Frank Miller’s 300, the comic, is a gorgeous fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae. It is a hyper-epic, in the way that Sin City is a hyper-noir. The battles are visual essays on unrelenting force, the grace and power of a body forged to fight with weapons deriving their energy from human motion, and…
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This is How It Should Work
I just heard on NPR about scientists questioning Gore’s documentary An Incovenient Truth that says, basically: …after the talk, a couple of [the scientists] came up to me and said, you know, “He didn’t exactly get the science right.” And this is exactly what should happen in a scientifically-oriented, scientifically-conscious society.
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Casino Royale
I’m a bit late in posting this, as we rushed out to see it on opening night, but here it is now for posterity: Casino Royale is the best Bond film and is one of the coolest action movies I’ve ever seen. No more crazy supervillains who want to carve their names on the moon…
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Children of Men
The film opens with the death of the world’s youngest child, a boy saddled with celebrity and the focused emotions of millions, if not billions. His death is the result of an enraged autograph seeker. The opening of the film is a slap in the face to the fame-obsessed, drawing clear parallels to the death…
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Little Miss Sunshine
LIttle Miss Sunshine is a great film. The dialogue, characters, acting, all of it is dead-on and effortlessly poignant, and often hilarious. Go see it now, it’s absolutely worth it. MPAA Review: Language, some sex and drug content. Ad Exec Reviews: “Where’s Olive?”, “A family on the verge of a breakdown”, “Everyone just pretend to…
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Path to What?
After, for a few days, hearing vague inklings about a furor over an ABC/Disney fictional drama called The Path to 9/11, then seeing it get mentions on some of my favorite sites, I decided to find out what the hubbub was all about. Y’know what ABC and Disney? Nobody needs a fictionalized version of the…
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The Illusionist
Eisenheim the Illusionist’s angular Jugendstil chair sitting on a bare stage is emblematic of this film’s style and is a potent set piece in establishing Eisenheim’s own approach on illusion. Alisa and I had been looking forward to seeing The Illusionist for some time, so we made our way downtown to check it out yesterday…
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Superman Returns
We’ve seen Superman Returns twice in four days now, and I can definitively say that it is not only a great Superman movie, but a fun, solid film. (I should note that I saw the film twice more out of circumstance than a strong desire to re-watch it, but I did go back for the…
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Dun dun dun, dun DUN DUN, dun DUN DUN
Straight from the official site: This September: Original Unaltered Trilogy on DVD In response to overwhelming demand, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release attractively priced individual two-disc releases of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Each release includes the 2004 digitally remastered version of the movie…
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