| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
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| Made in Britain - PG-13 | Really neat flick featuring the debut of Tim Roth. He's a skinhead, which is supposed to be the selling point, but it's really more about his being an angry young man who doesn't want to conform to the system. He's definitely a confused little bugger as he runs around the whole movie with a black kid, so yeah, his allegiance to white power is a tad befuddling. Solid performance. There's one scene in here that nails everything you ever want to explain to troubled kids that makes up the best 10 minutes of film I've seen in ages. | November 5, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling - R | Way better than expected. Sure it's totally self-indulgent (Pryor wrote, directed, and starred in what is essentially his own biopic), but it's also a great window into what Pryor thought about his life. | November 3, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard - R | A typically silly, over the top comedy with some top notch R-rated humor. Not an award winner by any stretch, but who doesn't love a movie where a trampy saleswoman keeps trying to fuck a 10 year old boy? | November 1, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Scum - R |
I'd never heard of Alan Clarke before stumbling across this flick tonight, and now I need to see everything the man's done. Scum served to shine a light on the batshit insane abuses in the British borstal system (think juvenile detention, only with poor dentistry). Think Lord of the Flies, only the kids were criminals and in the real world it went on like this for decades. Really powerful flick with some haunting moments that will definitely stick with you. Kind of feels like a cross between Brubaker and Chopper. It's a film with a message and a shit ton of brutality. Awesome, awesome movie. |
October 27, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Michael Jackson's This Is It - PG | October 27, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Land of the Lost - PG-13 | October 25, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Year One - PG-13 | October 25, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - PG-13 | October 25, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Thor - Unrated | October 25, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Bon Cop, Bad Cop - Unrated | The first 20 minutes made me think this was going to be unwatchable, but I'm glad I suffered through it. By the halfway point -- once it got through all of the ridiculous "ontario vs quebec" humor that was mostly for shit -- this turned into a pretty solid buddy cop flick. | October 25, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Adventureland - R | Decent coming of age flick with some fun scenarios and solid writing. Good, not great. | October 25, 2009 | N/A | |||
| I Love You, Man - R |
Paul Rudd, consider your shark jumped. While there were some great moments here and there, this was a surprisingly uncomfortable flick from the Apatow-universe of comedy. Jason Segel, as always, stole the show. Anytime he wasn't on screen though was kind of rough to watch. |
October 25, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Invention of Lying - PG-13 | October 25, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Astro Boy (AstroBoy) - PG | October 25, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| City on Fire - R |
The more I see of Chow Yun Fat's earlier work the more I like him. This time around he's an undercover cop infiltrating a murderous gang of jewelery thieves while at the same time trying to outrun some cops that don't care he's one of them. Good story, good action -- good all over. Definitely lived up to it's reputation. I've always wanted to see a man slide the metal between two escalators and avoid the bumpy pieces of plastic, and now I can say I have. Thank you, Ringo Lam. City on Fire is constantly referred to as "the movie Tarantino stole Reservoir Dogs from," but that couldn't be further from the truth. There are some similarities, but really, Tarantino took inspiration from 30 seconds that happened near the end of the film and crafted a totally unique masterpiece. They're two very different films, and totally worth watching for different reasons. That being said, I've got a real hankering to watch Dogs after watching this. The copy I viewed was sadly a shitty dubbed version. Normally that would be a total dealbreaker for me, but in this case the movie was so good it survived the terribly written and acted English dialogue. If you like 80's Hong Kong action flicks, you'll like City on Fire a great deal. |
October 25, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Saw VI - R | October 25, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter and Under the Hood - R | Watchable? Sure. But that's about it. Black Freighter was decent enough and SUPER creepy -- really captured the vibe of the EC comics it was paying homage too -- but Under the Hood was a HUGE disappointment. Filling in the back story is a great idea, and I loved the 60 minutes style framing of it, but overall it bored me to tears. | March 27, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Quantum of Solace - PG-13 | It's no Casino Royale, but as far as traditional Bond flicks go it's a high point for the series. Best boat chase since Last Crusade. LOTS of action. The ending was a little infuriating, but the ride to get there was well worth it. | March 27, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Big Stan - R |
If you like Rob Schneider (yes, there are still some of us who think Deuce Bigalow was Oscar-worthy thank you very much) Big Stan is an absolute must see. It's about a guy who does everything he can to keep from being prison-raped. Now THAT'S a formula for hilarity. Don't believe me? Check out The Accused. Now add prison. See? HILARITY. It's non-stop sillyness from beginning to end. Definitely enjoyable for anyone who likes Big Rob. |
March 27, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Punisher: War Zone - R |
The writing and acting were TERRIBLE, but as far as Punisher movies go it had a lot of what a die hard fan wants -- brutal, unforgiving, gory violence. The gore factor is so over the top that it becomes laugh out loud funny. Some really memorable action moments and, for the first time ever, a visually perfect casting job for Frank Castle (even if the acting was kind of shitty). It's just a shame that they ALWAYS mess with the origin when they put The Punisher on film. Vietnam, Cop, Dead Family. That's it -- hit all three points and you have a winner. But all three films have cherry picked what they liked. This was the worst offender of the bunch. Garth Ennis made perfect sense of it -- yes he fought in Vietnam, yes his family was killed, and yes, it's 2009. That means he's well into his fifties and has been fighting his war on crime for about a quarter of a century. If anything it builds the mystique -- so why fuck with it every time? |
March 13, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Watchmen - R | As a comic book fan I couldn't have hoped for a better adaptation. Perfect casting, well-paced, and fantastically faithful to the source material. My only complaints (and let's face it, I'm being nitpicky) were with the parts of the film that were clearly "Zack Snyder." The action was gorgeous and straight out of 300, but there was just way more of it than was necessary -- and with the exception of the final piece, the gorey moments just didn't seem to fit with the rest of the film. Those small complaints aside though, it's everything I hoped it could be. Right on, Mr. Snyder. If Alan Moore ever watches anything that's adapted from his work, it should be this. | March 6, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Religulous - R | It focused a little more on Christianity than most people are saying, regardless of this it was a great ride for athiests and in a weird way sort of the ying to "Expelled"'s yang. If I had to recommend the two though, I'd have to say that Expelled opened my mind a little while Religulous just confirmed my long-standing beliefs (and made me want to start watching Real Time). | March 6, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Doctor Who: Shada - Unrated | March 6, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest - Unrated | March 6, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Comic Relief: Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death - Unrated | March 6, 2009 | N/A |
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