Horror, 93 Minutes, 2011
[Wife and kids are away visiting for the holidays. I’m staying home with movies. Just call me “Scrooge”. The fun one, with the Muppets.]
Tag: Indie
Movie Review: A Bag of Hammers
Drama, 94 Minutes, 2011
The movie revolved around two friends in an eternal bromance bonded over their mutually shitty childhoods. They make a good living stealing cars from mourners at funerals. Their baggage makes them unable to keep other relationships intact. They begin to empathize with the child of the woman renting an apartment from them and it eventually changes their lives forever. It’s difficult to discuss specifics without spoilers but it’s probably not to hard to see that this is about finally growing up, cobbling together families that shouldn’t work but do and finding out what’s really important in life.
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Movie Review: Picture Day
Comedy/Drama, 93 Minutes, 2013
We gave this a shot because, after watching the excellent BBC America series “Orphan Black” [IMDB] we became very impressed with Tatiana Maslany [IMDB]. Her turn as an entire group of clones, all with radically distinct personalities, is truly impressive. Very highly recommended.
This movie? It’s fine.
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Movie Review: Video Game High School
“Video Game High School” on IMDB
Sci-Fi, 123 Minutes, 2012
[This isn’t technically a movie. Rather it’s a web series whose first season has been cut into a movie for distribution on NetFlix. I’m going to treat it like a movie. So there.]
This entire thing is unabashed, shameless pandering to the video game crowd. In this world video games are king. Good players are the rock stars and every teen wants to go to “Video Game High School”. Brian D is an everyman schlep who accidentally frags the school’s star, “The Law”, and gets a scholarship for his trouble.
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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.
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Movie Review: The Mill and the Cross
“The Mill and the Cross” on IMDB
Drama, 92 Minutes, 2011
Although not completely necessary it might be a good idea to become at least passingly familiar with Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 1564 painting, “The Procession to Calvary” [wikipedia] before watching this movie. I’ll wait.
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Movie Review: Pete Smalls is Dead
Comedy, 95 Minutes, 2010
In a good way this reminded me a lot of “The Big Lebowski” [IMDB]. Not in story but in sensibility and pacing. It’s not as good – Lebowski is an acknowledged classic from master filmmakers after all – but fans of it should like this. A subdued kind of depressiveness permeates the entire thing but is offset by moments of deep optimism and emotion.
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Movie Review: Control Alt Delete
Drama/Comedy, 93 Minutes, 2008
[The third and last movie in our unexpected Tyler Labine [IMDB] film festival. After watching two in a row by accident, we decided to hit up our good friend NetFlix for others and this floated up.]
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Movie Review: The People vs George Lucas
“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.]
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Movie Review: Jeff, Who Lives at Home
“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.
