Movie Review: How To Train Your Dragon
I’m reviewing this movie pretty late in the game, and that is entirely my fault. To be fair, I’ve been hyping How To Train Your Dragon on my twitter account since seeing it a few weeks back. And now I’m reviewing it on this blog. How To Train Your Dragon is by far one of […]
Movie Review: Iron Man 2
I saw Iron Man 2 last Friday with a group of friends, praying that it would live up to its hype and be able to follow its predecessor without falling into the gutter. Hollywood is not all that great at producing sequels. Transformers 2 was an utter disaster, and numerous other sequels in Hollywood have […]
Quickie Movie Reviews (2010): Volume One
I love having a library that lets me borrow movies for free, especially when they carry some really interesting titles. Such as the following: Torturing DemocracyPossibly one of the most important, and sadly relatively unknown, documentaries ever made on the U.S./War On Terror torture issue. It follows, moment by moment, the beginning of the programs […]
Movie Review: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
You’ve probably never heard of this movie. More than likely, it’s not even playing in your local movie theater. What is it? Well, for starters, it’s the last movie to feature Heath Ledger, which became a problem for the director because they hadn’t finished filming (which explains why Jude Law, Johnny Depp, and Colin Farrell […]
Rewatching My Shelf: Volume One
I’m starting a new feature called Rewatching My Shelf. I own quite a few DVDs and have started rewatching some of them. In doing so, I’ve found myself either disliking films I previously loved, or enjoying, yet again, those classics that made me clamber to buy them on DVD in the first place. So here […]
Quickie Movie Reviews (2009): Volume Nine
Yet another batch of old movies viewed and reviewed. Some interesting ones this time, but also some really bad ones. Here goes: Wings of Desire (Peter Falk) Daniel, an angel who spends his days easing the mental suffering of human beings, falls in love with a young woman and must sacrifice his wings and immortality […]