Blips on Hits and Misses
Where the Wild Things Are
I do try to give films a good go of it when I try to enjoy them as art or simply entertainment. In terms of "Where the Wild Things Are," I tried to look at the picture trough the eyes of an unruly child, but I came up empty.
March 17th, 2010
The Ugly Truth
I think Gerard Butler is a fine actor in the right film and the right script. This was not that film.
January 27th, 2010
Personal Effects
The film is about an important issue; not exactly well constructed and not so well told.
November 14th, 2009
Year One
Basically it is the tale of two movies. The first film is the dealing of a modern Jack Black perception of dealing with Cave Man issues...
October 26th, 2009
Gigantic
Director Matt Aselton, who shares the writing duties with Adam Zagata, cast Zooey Deschanel as Harriet / Happy an eccentric free spirit, who cannot abide attachment to conventional relationships
October 21st, 2009
Management
Sue Claussen, a traveling salesman, who the socially impotent Mike takes a fancy to when she beds down for the night at the local Mom and Pop motel somewhere in small town, Arizona. Mike is smitten by "America's Sweetheart" posing as a corporate salesperson and he finally finds something worth attaining - but is he worthy?
October 8th, 2009
Camille
The sweetest, and possibly the most naive girl in Kentucky is getting married. Her name is Camille, and we, the audience, are invited to the wedding, and possibly, to witness the rest of her life.
October 6th, 2009
Fragments
Some films have great success in spite of themselves. This is very rare. Most films try to stress a point, an issue; communicate a series of thoughts, and bridge the gap between artist ...
September 27th, 2009
Observe and Report
Jody Hill, who wrote and directed "The Foot Fist Way," tried for an encore performance, with "Observe and Report," but fell just short of a repeat performance.
September 24th, 2009
The Informers
A multi-strand narrative set in early 1980's Los Angeles, centered on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con).
September 15th, 2009
Adventureland
A picture built on its leading characters' self discovery as they age toward some sense of maturation that still seems to be a fleeting concern.
September 11th, 2009
The Year my Parents Went on Vacation
He is dropped of at the pre-arranged location, but his grandfather does not pick him up and the parents have hurriedly fled. The grandfather has died only moment earlier, succumbing to a massive coronary, and the boy is forced to fiend for himself as he adjusts to a world without his parents.
September 8th, 2009
Mutant Chronicles
The world is ruled by four mega corporations that are bent on interminable fight amongst themselves. It is a world that is devoid of natural resources and the technology has reverted back to steam engines; however, Mankind still retains the ability to colonize Mars.
September 6th, 2009
In Tranzit
"In Tranzit" is the story of how these same women soldiers of Leningrad dealt with the tending of Male Wehrmacht prisoners nearly a year after the end of the war.
August 25th, 2009
Last House on the Left
This plodding, short on reasonable dialogue, remake of the Wes Craven film, released in 1972, is watchable if you love gore, rape scenes, long strung out vengeance battles between good and evil foes, with an eventual outcome that may leave you satisfied, and then again, it may not.
August 23rd, 2009
Hunt for Justice
This film dealt with the most significant issue of the Bosnian war - the war crimes of genocide of that civilian population of indigenous Bosnians and Croatians. It is the story the Justice by the prosecution of the most significant war criminals, such as Slobodan Milosevic', by interested parties, including the United States and Canada.
August 22nd, 2009
Confessions of a Shopaholic
A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy entrepreneur.
August 21st, 2009
Fanboys
The fan boys leave their small town for a cross country trek to steal the original print of the latest and highly anticipated prequel from the home editing studio at George Lucas's "Skywalker Ranch" in northern California. They are not wanting to take possession of the print for financial gain, they only wish to be the first ones to see it.
August 16th, 2009
Saving God
Convicted felon Rev. Armstrong returns back to his neighborhood a changed man looking to take over his father's old church which is in a small steel town; that is riddled with drug dealers, their overseer is a menacing minion of Hell.
August 15th, 2009
Haunting in Connecticut
The haunting takes place in a home that was once a mortuary, whose malevolent mortician's purposeful degradation of dead human bodies; supposedly to seal their spirits to his will from beyond the paranormal dimension between the spirit's life and their eternal hereafter.
July 28th, 2009
Push
These special people have the potential to do great harm to others with these special powers and to humanity as a whole. While the potential to do great harm to our civilization is always a potential reality, the picture concentrates on those folks with special powers doing great harm to each other, and the violence is copious.
July 20th, 2009
The Devil's Tomb
An elite group of soldiers on a covert mission to retrieve a scientist from an underground lab encounter an ancient evil in the facility.
July 18th, 2009
The Horsemen
The murders are committed by an eclectic group of committed idealists, who have fashioned themselves after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as represented in the Book of Revelation. They believe by committing these horrific killings, they will succeed in wresting the attention of a curious public and sending the message that all is not well...
July 16th, 2009
The Unborn
She is pursued by a dybbuk (Hebrew for a possessive spirit), who wishes not only to possess a special part of Casey, but to fulfill a blood oath to destroy all of Casey's maternal ancestors since her grandmother was interned in Auschwitz as a young girl.
July 13th, 2009
Outlander
Alien space traveler meets Grendel-like space monster, stowed away on the alien's spaceship, as it hurtles toward Earth and crashes into the world of 11th century Vikings, settled in their homeland of ancient Norway, is the over arching theme in this science fiction fantasy.
July 12th, 2009
