There’s nothing better than an uplifting movie to please the masses that’s released just in time for the holidays. And if it involves sports, score! In fact, this year there are two to pick from, both focusing on a person who inspires others to achieve athletic greatness: The Blind Side starring Sandra Bullock and Invictus [...]
The long and winding road leads… well, I don’t know where. In The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy’s recent short novel, it seemingly leads to hell.
McCarthy’s writing is also the basis for the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men; his latest work is more like “No Old Men in the Country,” with most of the weak and infirm having perished after an undefined apocalypse. There’s a shared bleakness in both stories, a belief that evil exists in the world, and it is on the verge of invading your life.
Better than the first one. Still sucks.
That’s the distilled version for those who are sick and tired of hearing about “The Twilight Saga” and vampires (other than True Blood, of course) and debates over which side you play for — Team Edward or Team Jacob.
When it comes to the word precious and movies, it’s tough not to think of a kidnapped girl trapped in a hole trying to lure a small dog over the edge. ”Here Precious,” she calls out in The Silence of the Lambs, a movie still terrifying today. While vastly different films, Precious is just as frightening, and the title character suffers just as much as that poor, kidnapped woman. In fact, it’s arguably worse to watch Precious’s plight, for she’s a captive of not just one lunatic, but her family, a city’s bureaucracy, and her own, crippling self-doubt.
I am beginning to question my commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Director Richard Kelly had an avid fan after Donnie Darko, but his most recent follow-up, The Box, just doesn’t deliver. See, The Box would be really interesting if it wasn’t so boring. That may seem obvious, but something about the movie should be since most of it is a garbled mess.
When you take all the kid stuff out of Disney’s A Christmas Carol, it’s quite a good film. But those meddling kids…
As one of the most oft-told holiday stories, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol hardly needs any summary: crotchety old man gets visited by three ghosts and sees the error of his ways. Been there, seen it. Maybe even read it.
As the vampire-version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Willow liked to say, ”Bored now.” Maybe that’s not completely true for every minute of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, but it certainly applies more often than not.
It feels like the fun wonderment of Where the Wild Things Are has been clobbered with a dirt clod and killed. What was once a fun and light-hearted story – at least to my childish mind – has been completely turned around to be a sad, melancholy story of losing innocence and growing up.
