Tag: Drama

Movie Review: Family Weekend

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IMDB, Family Weekend“Family Weekend” on IMDB

Comedy, 96 Minutes, 2013

I looked forward to this.  I really like the cast and the “kids take over” premise enjoys an eternal life.  Like most it’s often done badly.  Sometimes very badly.  Still, periodically, it’s done so right that you always extend it at least the benefit of the doubt.

In this case Olesya Rulin [IMDB] plays Emily, a teenager so fed up with her parents self-absorption that she, with the help of her three siblings, imprisons them for a weekend of forced family therapy.  Of course highly controlling, power-broker Mom (Kristin Chenoweth [IMDB]) and hippy-dippy, stay-at-home artist dad (Mathew Modine [IMDB]) are resistant to the concept.   As time goes on, and more and more goes wrong, extreme measures are resorted to.

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Movie Review: The Lone Ranger

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IMDB, The Lone Ranger“The Lone Ranger” on IMDB

Action/Drama, 149 Minutes, 2013

As a big fan of both classic serialized heroes and westerns, I was actually looking forward to this quite a bit.  Sure, I may have been the only one, but I thought that it would at least be a nice, meaningless, popcorn lark.  Something well-done, over-the-top and forgettable.

But then they had to go and throw in all that genocide.

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Movie Review: Gravity

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IMDB, Gravity“Gravity” on IMDB

Drama, 91 Minutes, 2013

This movie is, plain-and-simple, a God-damn achievement.  IMAX was invented in 1970 and spent all that time waiting for this movie.  You can tear them all down now, all the IMAX theatres.  Nothing will ever be so perfectly matched to the format again.  It was also the first time that I didn’t feel ripped off by the $15 ticket price.

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Movie Review: Lincoln

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IMDB, Lincoln“Lincoln” on IMDB

Historical Drama, 150 Minutes, 2012:

This is an excellent historical drama.  There are some amazing performances, notably by Daniel Day-Lewis [IMDB] and Tommy Lee Jones [IMDB].  Focusing almost exclusively on the little understood, but intensely interesting, fight to pass the 13th amendment it’s a movie that every American should watch and understand.

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