This Japanese import is an engaging and effective look at the struggle of feeling trapped by a countries traditions and cultures, that minus an odd 20 minutes near the end, is pretty solid all around. The Sasaki’s are an ordinary middle class family living a rather normal existence in modern Japan. Composed of mom, dad, […]
Read more "Review: Tokyo Sonata"Pete Docter’s – Monster’s, Inc. (2001) Pete Docter’s Pixar debut was a heartfelt and hilarious look into the world of monsters and what they do on the other side of our closet doors. Sully, a tall and furry blue monster, is the leading scarer at Monsters Inc., a company that harvests children’s screams to power […]
Read more "The Decade’s Best – Monsters, Inc. (2001)"Duncan Jones makes his feature debut with this fantastic sci-fi film that digs into the psyche of the mind and what it means to be human and it is all fueled by a marvelous performance by Sam Rockwell. Helium-3 has saved the earth’s energy problems. A world on the verge of destroying itself through pollution […]
Read more "Review: Moon"For everyone who swooned over the last 2 films, this addition to the High School Musical franchise will satisfy the craving for more. But for the rest of the world, this is simply mediocre. Overall there is everything to be expected: singing, dance numbers, teenage drama and love. And though there is nothing wrong with […]
Read more "Rental Review – High School Musical 3: Senior Year"If Hancock had a brother, he would be Clark Kent. Okay, different dads or something, but still, there are too many similarities not to draw the comparisons. They could compete in challenges of strength, flight, etc., make up stories about where they really came from, reminisce about their memories of breaking needles in hospitals, Clark […]
Read more "Rental Review – Hancock"Michael Mann is back with a period biopic that chronicles the life of John Dillinger in his glory days as a criminal and the results are superb technically but it is missing that special something to make it an absolutely amazing film. Now, what is that special something? I don’t know. But as we pick […]
Read more "Review: Public Enemies"Sergei Dvortsevoy makes his narrative feature debut out of Kazakhstan is an interesting look into a sheep herder’s life and the battle between the young and old school’s of thought in society in the country. The film opens with the attempted arrangement of Asa, a young soldier looking for a start to his new life, […]
Read more "Review: Tulpan"Woody Allen returns from Europe and heads right back to New York City in this “classic Allen” tale that allows Larry David to be exposed to a bigger audience then HBO for the hilarious and brilliant man that he is. Boris Yellnikoff is a genius, a self proclaimed genius at that, and was once almost […]
Read more "Review: Whatever Works"The third film in the trilogy is superior to the awful second, but doesn’t have the heart and all around quality of the first film in the series; and it utilizes the use of 3-D fairly well in a couple of key action scenes. Diego, Manny, and Sid are all living together in there own […]
Read more "Review: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs"The latest documentary to come around to educate us about what we eat is more of a call for regulation mixed with education on the subsidizing and corporate environment of our food in this country and it does it entertainingly without grossing you out. Our guides for this education lesson are a pair of prominent […]
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