“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.]
Tag: Review
Movie Review: Metal Tornado
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.]
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Movie Review: Bat $#*! Crazy
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.]
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Movie Review: Rubber
Comedy? Drama? Horror? Documentary?, 82 Minutes, 2010
Um.
Erm.
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Movie Review: Orcs
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.
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Movie Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
“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.
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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.
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Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
“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.
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Game Review: The Mass Effect Trilogy, Part 4
Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 at Amazon.com
Rated Mature; Reviewed on PS3 and PC
Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this series covered my impressions of the Mass Effect games as a whole. This last section will focus on the controversial end game.
[Story spoilers will be sprinkled liberally throughout this discussion.]
As we’ve explored, the Mass Effect trilogy provided an engaging experience within a complex framework of racial and social tensions against an amazingly deep historical context. Exceptional gameplay and characters kept players moving through the story and excited for each installment. While there were flaws that marred the experience most were ironed out by the third game making them easily forgiven and forgotten.
Until the ending came along and punched you in the face, slapped your ass and left you naked and cold in the woods.
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Movie Review: Prometheus
Sci-fi, 124 Minutes, 2012
This is difficult to review. It has to be considered a stand-alone film (because that’s what Ridley Scott’s been screaming at anybody who’ll listen) but dammit, it isn’t a stand-alone film. It’s a prequel to Alien [IMDB]. Telling people to forget it doesn’t change it. So, as a stand-alone film? Not a bad popcorn flick, but tremendously flawed intellectually. As a prequel to “Alien”? Well… then it sucks and blows.
