Rental Review – Religulous

As soon as I finished this movie I got into a lightweight debate with my mom, and it went a little something like this: Sister: So did you like the movie? Mom: It was okay. I don’t really like him though. And I don’t think that it was appropriate to go around making fun of […]

Review: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

David Yates returns at the helm of the sixth and second to last adaptation in the Harry Potter series and the result is a character driven story that sets up the final chapter that lacks a lot of action, as the source material dictates, that makes it a bit of the odd duck in the […]

Review: Departures

08’s winner for best foreign language film at the Oscar’s, Departures is a very engaging, funny, and thoughtful look at death and letting the living come to peace with it and it is all wrapped around the wonderful story of a man finding himself and coming to grips with his past. Daigo Kobayashi is an […]

Rental Review – Push

I will admit that after my first viewing I was slightly confused by the story of Push because it was a little hard to follow for me. However, after rewatching it once more (okay, twice if you count once with the commentary track), I can finally say that I think I get it. Push creates […]

The Decade’s Best – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

David Fincher’s – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) David Fincher’s 2008 film stands up with any of his best films by telling a wonderful story, getting fantastic work out of his actors, and utilizing ground breaking special effects that are so good you don’t even know you are watching them much of the […]

Review: Brüno

Sacha Baron Cohen is back at it with his follow up to 2006’s Borat which chronicles his homosexual Austrian fashion expert character, Brüno, is an often hilarious series of bits and skits that doesn’t overstay its welcome and is not nearly as groundbreaking do to the actor’s previous work. Brüno is the biggest fashion expert […]

Review: I Love You, Beth Cooper

Chris Columbus will have a tough time picking up the pieces of his career after this atrocious and unwatchable mess that everyone involved with should be ashamed of for participating in or even letting it get to production. I am not going to sum up the plot because it doesn’t matter, if you see this […]

Now Playing Review – (500) Days of Summer

In the beginning of (500) Days of Summer the narrator lets the audience in on a little secret by telling us not to get our hopes up with his “this is not a love story” jab to the heart. Not wanting to believe the worse, my internal monologue told me to ignore his bout of […]

Rental Review – 12 Rounds

If you are looking for an action packed movie then look no further. If however, you like a little substance with your explosions, you should probably try elsewhere. Sure the plot is entertaining, but that is about all this movie has. From a writing, or rather, dialog, stand point this movie failed horribly. In fact, […]

Review: Tokyo Sonata

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, […]