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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012The Artist dir. Michel Hazanavicius Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell Five out of Five Stars The Artist takes a step back in time to a different age- filmed entirely in black and white, and is 99% silent. In a Hollywood where every explosion has to be bigger, dialogue is crammed in and [...]
The Ides of March… Beware of Reality
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012The Ides of March dir. George Clooney Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, George Clooney Three and a half out of Five Stars If there is anything good to be said about The Ides of March, it’s that it isn’t at all a bad film. It is certainly interesting, and entertaining, and a good way to [...]
Payne delivers again with The Descendants
Sunday, January 29th, 2012The Descendants dir. Alexander Payne George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller Five out of Five Stars Alexander Payne’s new film is in much the same vein of his previous outings, beautifully-crafted character pieces that are only flawed in that their characters are also flawed. With films like About Schmidt, Sideways, and now The Descendants, he [...]
The Mysterious Case of Harriet Vanger (also starring a girl with a dragon-shaped tattoo)
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo dir. David Fincher Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård 4 out of 5 Stars David Fincher’s last film, the near-masterpiece The Social Network (check out my review of it here), set a bar that sadly, this film fails to clear. The man is certainly capable of directing [...]
Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Good Movie Gone Wrong
Monday, January 16th, 2012Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows dir. Guy Ritchie Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Jared Harris 3-1/2 out of 5 Stars After a fantastic outing in the original Sherlock Holmes, Robert Downey Jr. (Holmes) is back with his mostly-unwilling sidekick Dr. Watson (Law) in the sequel to the mostly strong first chapter (mostly, because, well… [...]
Movie Review: Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Saturday, December 24th, 2011The one thing that needs to be said about this fourth Mission Impossible film is that finally the true appeal of the television show is begining to be seen on the silver screen. It sure took them long enough. The latest foray into a modern and revamped depiction of the loved 1960′s television show, Mission [...]
Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011The 2nd in what well looks to be a string of movies based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s deductive slueth features Robert Downey Jr. in the titular role and Jude Law as his right hand (at times literally) man Dr. Watson. Like the prior film it is a period piece, and filled with the British [...]
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