“The People vs George Lucas” on IMDB
Documentary, 70 Minutes, 2011
[This is the fifth review for this edition of my semi-regular “my-wife-is-visiting-relatives-so-I’m-watching-loads-of-crappy-movies” film festival. Consider this a palette cleanser between the schlock.]
Horror/Comedy, 70 Minutes, 2011:
[This is the fourth review for this edition of my semi-regular “my-wife-is-visiting-relatives-so-I’m-watching-loads-of-crappy-movies” film festival.]
“Mongolian Death Worm” on IMDB
Horror, 89 Minutes, 2010
[This is the third review for this edition of my semi-regular “my-wife-is-visiting-relatives-so-I’m-watching-loads-of-crappy-movies” film festival.]
Horror, 101 Minutes, 2011
[This is the second review for this edition of my semi-regular “my-wife-is-visiting-relatives-so-I’m-watching-loads-of-crappy-movies” film festival.]
Horror, 128 Minutes, 2011
[This is the first review for this edition of my semi-regular “my-wife-is-visiting-relatives-so-I’m-watching-loads-of-crappy-movies” film festival.]
Comedy? Drama? Horror? Documentary?, 82 Minutes, 2010
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Horror / Comedy, 77 Minutes, 2011
While far from good this was actually, amazingly, pretty good. While you’ll get a lot of laughs from the acting (all bad but some was truly, horribly, hilariously bad) you’ll also get some from the actual script from things the writer wrote down then made his friends say on camera. You laugh at things actually intended to be funny. None of it is genius but just the existence of competence at this level goes a hell of long way.
“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” on IMDB
Comedy/Drama, 124 Minutes, 2011
Movies about old people tend to be really good. They just are. “On Golden Pond” [IMDB], “Coccon” [IMDB], “Grumpy Old Men” [IMDB], “Driving Miss Daisy” [IMDB], “*Batteries Not Included” [IMDB], “Second Hand Lions” [IMDB], “Red” [IMDB] – and the list goes on. They’re all great.
“Jeff, Who Live at Home” on IMDB
Comedy, 83 Minutes, 2011
This is a surprisingly brilliant little movie. While there is a rather hippy-dippy message at the core the wrappings are so charming even somebody as jaded as myself can forgive it.
“Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” on IMDB
Action/Mystery, 129 Minutes, 2011
Being a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes I was incredibly worried about the first film but happily surprised by the result. While it added an action-movie physicality to the characters it lost none of the cleverness and brains-over-brawn mentality that makes the character so beloved by skeptics and mystery lovers everywhere (who, if I may speak for the group, hate nothing more than a simplistic “it’s magic” answer to a mystery). The movies have happily stayed grounded in reality exactly where they belong.
