Drama, 91 Minutes, 2010
[This is the seventh selection in my irregular, “My Wife and Kids are Visiting Relatives and I’m Home Watching Movies” film festival.]
Tag: Drama
Movie Review: Wrong
Comedy/Drama/Something, 94 Minutes, 2013
[This is the sixth selection in my irregular, “My Wife and Kids are Visiting Relatives and I’m Home Watching Movies” film festival.]
Movie Review: Knightriders
Adventure, 145 Minutes, 1981
I had admittedly totally forgotten about this movie until I was reminded by a hilarious Cracked.com article, “5 Insane Moments from the Manliest Movie Ever Made“. Once reminded I felt obliged to track it down and relive the majesty.
Movie Review: Bumblefuck, USA
Drama, 91 Minutes, 2011
The basic idea here was very good. Alexa (Cat Smit [IMDB]) is a pretty Dutch girl whose gay friend has killed himself. To discover why, she travels to his small hometown in Iowa and interviews people about their experiences being gay in middle-America.
Movie Review: The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle
“The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle” on IMDB
Comedy, 98 Minutes, 2009
At the risk of starting out with a spoiler: this is a movie about little, blue butt-fish. It may, indeed, be about more than that but what will stick with you and what you’ll talk about with people that haven’t seen it is little, blue butt-fish. This may be considered, in fact, the official anthem movie for little, blue butt-fish.
Movie Review: Death Sentence
Thriller, 105 Minutes, 2007
The poster says “from the author of ‘Death Wish'” and you should probably take note of that because for all intents and purposes this a remake of that classic. Not in the details, mind you, but in the broad strokes this is soooooo “Death Wish” [IMDB].
Movie Review: Cloud Atlas
Drama/Sci-fi, 172 Minutes, 2012
I had been attracted to this by the trailers but lost track of it until I noticed it available on Amazon Instant Video. I couldn’t honestly remember what about it attracted me. I knew that Tom Hanks [IMDB] seems to pick scripts well and that I’d never been completely disappointed by the Wachowski’s. We ended up watching it, my lovely bride and I, without bothering to get any more information on it.
We loved it. Both of us. We didn’t understand shit. Neither of us.
Movie Review: The Perfect Family
Comedy/Drama, 84 Minutes, 2011
This was a nice little movie. Kathleen Turner [IMDB] plays Eileen Cleary, a fanatically devout catholic woman. She’s active in the church and community and by all impressions as model a catholic as anybody could want. Of course, if it all ended there this wouldn’t be much of a movie.
Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty
Drama, 157 Minutes, 2012
This was a great movie. Incredibly well acted, incredibly well paced, incredibly well written. It deserves all the accolades it received and more – moreso because it could have so easily been a self-aggrandizing, America – fuck yeah! anthem but instead delved much deeper and much more honestly.
Movie Review: Kill the Irishman
Crime, 106 Minutes, 2011
I’ve been waiting for some time for Ray Stevenson [IMDB] to start getting the A-List lead roles that he clearly deserves. He’s been featured in some of the best TV on TV (HBO’s glorious “Rome” and Showtime’s “Dexter” to name two of my favorites). He’s flexible, committed and charming has hell (even when playing an evil sonofabitch). So, while I missed this when it came out, I was thrilled to see him taking the lead in a major (if lower-budget) motion picture.
The good news is that Stevenson is great. The bad news is that the movie… isn’t. While far from “bad” it does rely almost exclusively on gangster movie clichés and has some pretty serious pacing issues. It often plays as a series of vignettes rather than a cohesive story and we unfortunately never really get to truly understand the characters.