Under The Dome
Cloud AtlasI highly recommend Dreamhost.
emusic Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Ultimate Collection [Live] – a fine collection of nostalgic big-band swing music. It’s good, but there’s nothing here that stands out for me, perhaps because it’s too nostalgic. I am very fond of his rendition of “Summertime Blues,” though. They Might Be Giants, Nanobots – TMBG are very good at [… Read More]
In watching Jumanji with my kids last week, I realized (belatedly) that Jonathan Hyde plays both Sam Parrish and the creepy man hunter Van Pelt. This got me thinking about a similar move made by the creators of the recent live-action Peter Pan film, to have Jason Isaacs play both Mr. Darling and Captain Hook. In [… Read More]
Over the weekend, I saw two movies with my kids, one an old favorite, the other a new film in theatre. Here, then, is my double review of Jumanji and The Croods. In case you haven’t seen the films, here’s a brief summary. Jumanji tells the story of a magical board game that releases violent [… Read More]
Having written my review of Evil Dead yesterday, today is the rants, delights, and nit picking session. Needless to say, Spoilers ahoy! I will hand it to Alvarez and Sayagues that they didn’t fall into the stereotypes as deeply as one might expect. This isn’t Cabin in the Woods. But leave it to the hipster [… Read More]
What happens when five young folks go to a cabin in the woods for some good old fashioned junkie detox? Nothin’ good. Especially if they find a book full of ancient, horrible spells and drawings or something. And then they read from it. (I also like the idea that at some other cabin there are [… Read More]
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]
These things come in waves. This serves as a follow up to my essay from last week about the economics of copying and David Lowry. Sam Adams crafted this piece on Slate a couple days ago. Here’s a key paragraph: But is it the dawning of a new day or the end of an era? [… 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]
Last November, Universal Studios sued a porn company for its plans to make a 50 Shades adaptation without permission. According to Universal, the film is a direct adaptation and not parody, a fact supported by quotes from the movie’s producers saying things like “The film will be very true to the books.” The response to [… Read More]
The Bourne Legacy and Flypaper The Bourne Legacy is the fourth movie in the Bourne series. This film follows the travails of a new experiment subject, Aaron Cross, a man with a distaste for authority and some kickass punching skills. When Jason Bourne exposes all the CIAs dirty experimental projects to scrutiny, the other programs [… 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]
Check out the bottom left option in this “related to I Sell the Dead” screen. Weird, eh? I suspect all Chaz Palmenteri or Drea de Matteo films end up in the zombie list, just because.
See No Evil Hear No Evil and Larry Crowne Larry Crowne tells the hopeful story of a middle-aged man who loses his job because he never went to college, and then finds hope and love in his experience in college. See No Evil Hear No Evil follows the adventures and mishaps of a blind [… 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]