Action, 115 Minutes, 2003
This was a pretty standard action movie. A tough, straight DEA agent goes rogue after a cartel attempts to kill him and murders his wife in the process.
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Movie Review: The Switch
Romantic Comedy, 101 Minutes, 2010
Meh.
This is the same basic, cookie-cutter, rom-com recipe that seems to draw Jennifer Aniston in like a fly to honey. Jason Bateman’s career hasn’t been doing nearly as well as his talent deserves so he can be forgiven nearly any sin at this point, but Aniston is really driving herself into a nice, comfortable, completely unchallenging rut.
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Movie Review: Thor
Action/Adventure, 115 Minutes, 2011
Good movie. Took my son, he enjoyed it as well.
I never personally read Thor (or many Marvel comics, being a DC Universe kind of guy) so I had very little background to go on, but I believe they struck the right tone here. For fans of the other Avenger movies (“The Hulk”, “Iron Man”, etc) there are plenty of inside-jokes and the ever-suffering Agent Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. is given his largest role yet.
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Movie Review: The Green Hornet
Action/Comedy, 119 Minutes, 2011
I really (REALLY) wanted to like this. In the end I just couldn’t.
I’m not sure why but more often than not Seth Rogen just has this ability to drain the joy out of things. I noticed it first and most dramatically in “Observe and Report” but also in “Funny People” and “Zach and Miri Make a Porno“. It’s odd because I actually would say, if asked, that I’m a fan of his. I like that he pushes the envelope; that he doesn’t go for the easy laughs. But just as often as this works, it fails and sometimes spectacularly so.
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Movie Review: Punching the Clown
Comedy, 91 Minutes, 2009
Loved this.
The “mockumentary” style has been a little overdone lately but this is nicely refreshing and has some genuine, laugh-out-loud moments. It’s far from perfect but it has a depth that allows it to overcome its problems. In all the best ways this reminds me of genre classics like “Best in Show” or “Comic Book: The Movie”.
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Movie Review: Pelt
Horror, 88 Minutes, 2010
Pure crap.
This is actually listed as “comedy/horror” on IMDB and the only way that works is if you find it funny that anybody would find this scary and are horrified that anybody would find it funny.
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Movie Review: Primal
Horror, 80 Minutes, 2010
Not bad for the genre really, but if you’re looking for any explanation at all you’re not going to get it. I’ve been fairly impressed with the quality of B movies coming out of Australia recently – this is on par with any of the American B-level theatrical releases recently (movies like “The Descent” or “The Hills have Eyes” come to mind).
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Movie Review: Prowl
Horror, 81 Minutes, 2010
I did like this, although it was pretty grotesquely stretched and still only hit 80 minutes. It would have worked much better as a short-form film or within an anthology.
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Game Review: Auditorium (PS3)
This is one of those rare games that’s instantly engaging and completely engrossing. Most puzzle games have a varying period of total confusion and frustration until that “aha!” moment when whatever arbitrary rule set being imposed makes sense. With Auditorium there’s oddly no ramp up at all: the mechanics are introduced so slowly and easily and with no imposed time limits. You’re free to play with each of the tools and explore their effects on the environment and while you’re definately learning it just doesn’t feel like work.
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Resistance: Fall of Man Contest Entry
Authored September 2006
To promote the (then) unreleased Playstation 3 game “Resistance: The Fall of Man” a short fiction contest was run. The instructions were simply to create a “War Journal” with the alternate history (a 1950’s war between British and American forces and an alien horde) of the game as a backdrop.
