Under The Dome
Cloud AtlasI highly recommend Dreamhost.
A Good Day to Die Hard (GDDH) follows the adventures of John MacClaine as he tries to get his son out of some gangster-related trouble in Russia. The film makes knowing winks toward the other films in the series, mostly along the lines of “I’m too old for this shit.” There is one moment where [… Read More]
Silver Linings Playbook and Midnight in Paris Silver Linings Playbook tells the story of two troubled people, unsure of themselves and having difficulty working through traumatic events in their past (plus mental instability), who come together and find their way to a silver lining. Ahem. Midnight in Paris follows a writer obsessed with the artistic [… Read More]
Burke and Hare and 30 Minutes or Less Burke and Hare is the latest of the regular re-tellings of the real and amusing tale of two bumbling business men who turn to murder in order to meet the corpse needs of the royal Edinburgh Medical College. 30 Minutes or Less tells the tale of a [… Read More]
That sounds like a show I’d watch. I was trying to figure out the best way to write about our summer television viewing, which included three separate shows, when I decided to do a “double review,” but in augmented form. Here we go, a triple review! True Blood: Season 5 develops its main thread around [… Read More]
I use the semi-random sorting method of “the last two movies I watched” to decide what I should write about in my double reviews. I find that forcing myself to consider two movies as though they were intended to be viewed together makes for interesting insight about storytelling and movie making as a whole. That [… Read More]
The Dark Knight Rises and Hanna The third film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises follows the final adventures of Bruce Wayne and his alter ego, Batman (or is it Batman and his alter ego, Bruce Wayne?) as he battles mysterious criminal Bane for the life of Gotham City. Hanna follows a [… Read More]
The Amazing Spider-Man The Devil Wears Prada / Wedding Crashers Normally, I do double-reviews of films, but while traveling recently, I saw parts of both The Devil Wears Prada and Wedding Crashers. Instead of reviewing these films separately, I’ll review them all in one big hot mess of commentary and silliness. Watch out. The Amazing [… Read More]
The Big Year and The Net I usually don’t put movies I’m re-watching in these double reviews, but I last saw The Net in the theater, in 1995, so it’s almost like seeing a new movie. The Sandra Bullock thriller follows the terrible adventures of Angela Bennett, who becomes the target of a malevolent criminal [… Read More]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Alice Okay, I’m cheating a little since Alice is actually a 3-hour Syfy mini-series, but I watched it as a single movie rather than as a two or three-part show, so I’m reviewing it like it’s a movie. Deal with it. Alice follows the adventures of its eponymous [… Read More]
Brave and Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino’s recent film follows two stories in Vichy France, tracking both a renegade group of Nazi-hunting Jews dropped in occupied France and a young woman who gets a chance to avenge her family’s murder by burning down a movie theater full of Nazi bigwigs. Pixar’s recent film follows two stories [… Read More]
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted and Dr. Bell & Mr. Doyle: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes Sometime in the distant past, I rented Dr. Bell and Mr. Doyle and liked it a bit. But it was a while ago, and apparently not with Jenny, as she has no memory of it. So we watched [… Read More]
Battle Royale and Drive This review focuses on two controversial films. Battle Royale is controversial in a conventional way, driving people to ask whether it’s a good thing to make a film in which children murder one another. Drive causes controversy by being made in an unusual way, by making a movie that doesn’t [… Read More]
Hard Boiled and Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead Today’s movies are from the early 1990s, (1992 and 1991, respectively). Hard Boiled is often cited as the preeminent early John Woo film, a blood-soaked thriller about a badass cop who teams up with a badass undercover cop to take down a badass Triad boss. Did [… Read More]
The Avengers and Men In Black 3 In the summer I tend to see the big blockbusters, and so far this one is no different. Perhaps the two biggest SF blockbusters so far are The Avengers and MIB3, and as of last weekend, I’ve seen both. The Avengers follows the team-up of the Marvel superheroes [… Read More]
The Pirates! and Dark Shadows Both films under discussion today are part of the modern habit of telling tales about villains (pirates and vampires are both nominally villains, no?) whom we enjoy and empathize with. The Pirates! follows the adventure of the lovable Pirate Captain and his crew as they seek treasure and the fame [… Read More]