| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
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| Valentine's Day - PG-13 | February 10, 2010 | N/A | ||||
| The Lovely Bones - PG-13 | January 24, 2010 | N/A | ||||
| Date Night - PG-13 | January 24, 2010 | N/A | ||||
| Robin Hood - Unrated | January 24, 2010 | N/A | ||||
| Clash of the Titans - Unrated | January 24, 2010 | N/A | ||||
| Gulliver's Travels - Unrated | January 24, 2010 | N/A | ||||
| The Wolfman - R | January 24, 2010 | N/A | ||||
| The Sorcerer's Apprentice - PG | January 24, 2010 | N/A | ||||
| Max Manus - Unrated | January 24, 2010 | N/A | ||||
| Up in the Air - R | January 24, 2010 | N/A | ||||
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - PG-13 | January 24, 2010 | N/A | ||||
| Edge of Darkness - R | January 24, 2010 | N/A | ||||
| The Book of Eli - R | January 24, 2010 | N/A | ||||
| Legion - R | January 24, 2010 | N/A | ||||
| The Reaping - R |
Effectively unsettling mix of Southern gothic and Old Testament, with shades of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby.
A forensic science professor investigates a Louisiana small town understandably spooked with exodus-like plagues. Director Stephen Hopkins knows how to make audiences jump, jolt and jar and Peter Levy's cinematography is, with lush and startling overhead shots, the red river winding through the speckled green of bayou country, especially fine. Hilary Swank compelling as ever, projecting toughness and resolve but also deep wounds of loss and grief, with Anna Sophia Robb's menacing silence and piercing blue eyes. |
December 14, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Green Mile - R | Sweeping and sumptuous fable with a core of genuine honesty and sadness that uneasily fuses childlike whimsy with cruel horror into a marvellously good tale, delivering laughter, wonder and tears. Comparison to "The Shawshank Redemption" is unavoidable, the period prison setting and similarly melancholic tone, as well as Frank Darabont's filmmaking, though adapted this time from a Stephen King serial novel rather than a King novella, it stretches a crucial point: that even the best of men do bad things. There is no mistaking the atmosphere of menace, sadism and fear that Darabont so effectively builds to spellbinding, gothic intensity, the three electrocution scenes are gruelling, and to the inexorable fate that ties its characters together. "The Green Mile" poses the darkest of questions in a paradoxical, metaphorical vision of the world. | November 28, 2009 | N/A | |||
| 2012 - PG-13 |
This is a fantastic production based on the infamous prediction coming out of the fascinating civilization of the Mayas, the Earth's destruction-- their long count calendar, it is theorized, ends in 2012, suggesting our world also. The prediction has been minutely examined, discussed and analyzed over the years during which archaeoastrologers asserted it, metaphysicists supported it, and geophysicists found it dangerously plausible, even government scientific experts have been forced to consider the terrifying assertion.
2012 takes that and builds out of it a hulking near 3 hours of entertainment. It is a tour de force of special effects-- as tectonic plates begin sliding into the Earth's mantle, setting off myriad earthquakes, destroying Los Angeles and the rest of civilization, in the process, tracing a certain author, Jackson Curtis and his family as they throw themselves wholeheartedly, as do millions of others, into a desperate race for survival. John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton and Danny Glover in the cast all do fine work. |
November 23, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Beethoven - PG | Affable, old-fashioned and surprisingly effective family comedy in which Charles Grodin plays an impatient, stressed-out dad whose loving suburban family persuades him to let them adopt a cute puppy. When it grows into an oversized, slobbering St Bernard the inevitable havoc ensues. A sharp script and a cast of oddball characters including an ingratiating yuppie played by David Duchovny keep the film fresh. | November 22, 2009 | N/A | |||
| A.I. Artificial Intelligence - PG-13 | Heady, enchanting sci-fi fantasy fable in three-acts that tone-shifts from ambiguous joy to delirious terror to bravura ending, and which benefits from the blend of styles from Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg. Despite obvious parallels with the fairy tale Pinocchio, it manages to create a world of its own, alternately rich, strange and savage. Jude Law is never better than his picaresque 'mecha' Gigolo Joe, but Haley Joel Osment astonishes with a talent that carries the film to its rousing completion, the quiet dignity of which is quite stunning to behold. It might make you cry watching it or it might give you the creeps thinking about it afterwards. | November 21, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Encounters at the End of the World - G | November 21, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Beethoven's 2nd - PG | Charles Grodin comically sputters and fumes, and generally displays indignation better than anyone in the movies, and he is frequently hilarious, but the film's focus is on the dogs, with an off-the-wall approach that has the house invaded by four St. Bernard puppies, and which allows Grodin the opportunity for even more doubletakes and outrage. The jokes are alternately amusing, silly and vulgar, and there are also a couple of set-pieces calculated to get big laughs, as when Beethoven pulls down a beach house balcony. | November 21, 2009 | N/A | |||
| El Cid - Unrated | Glorious, great epic, classic in terms of script and spectacle, and extraordinary representation of the famous epic poem, stately and thrilling, with everything crisp and simple on the widescreen. Sobriety and restraint are perhaps the keynotes of the film's success, with the result that a potentially risible finale in which Cid's corpse is borne into the realm of legend, strapped to his horse as it leads his men to battle, becomes genuinely stirring. Great acting from Charlton Heston, aptly heroic in the titular 11th-century patriot lead, and Sophia Loren. Miklos Rosza's superb score perfectly complements the images. | November 15, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Antz - PG | Sophisticated, funny, and joyously subversive animated bug epic, complete with the cute ants themselves voiced by the ultrafamous, Woody Allen providing the voice of the formicary lead. It's a healthy balance of individual initiative and cooperative teamwork on one level. On another level, the movie is a healthy dose of perspective busting, in one fantastic sequence, the ants on their outdoor jaunt fall into the sugary vastness of a doughnut and get stuck on acres of chewing gum wadded to the bottom of a sneaker; only to have to climb a skyscraper-like shoelace to escape. A dazzling delight, with deadpan witticisms, heart-stopping shifts of perspective, it's completely entertaining, a kids' movie that will leave grown-ups quoting the lines to one another, sharp and funny, that's not exactly a children's movie, but one of those hybrids that works on different levels for different ages. | November 8, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Beetle Juice (Beetlejuice) - PG | A veritable wellspring of imagination, removing ghosts from the horror realm and putting them in the slapstick world of the wisecracking title character, a con artist who specializes in expunging the living from the homes of the dead. The effects are first-rate for their time, and include such wonderful oddities as a snake creature that slithers through the dunes of an afterworld purgatory, and a dead waiting room occupant with a head shrunk to the size of a prune. | November 8, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Ratatouille - G | Family film in the full sense offering something to viewers of all ages, and provides solid entertainment with rodents that emphasize the creatures' "cute" aspects - continuing the trend of A-level animated pictures raising the visual bar. The chase sequence during the second half that takes us through the streets of Paris and onto boats floating on the Seine is so exquisite that it's impossible to believe it was conceived and realized within a computer. There are plenty of action sequences and most of the comedy is universal. Peter O'Toole gives ominous depth to his character. At nearly two hours in length, it rewards those with patience, regardless of age. | October 27, 2009 | N/A |
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