Movie Review: Looper
Looper is a wonderful motion picture. Writer/Director Rian Johnson, much like Christopher Nolan’s Inception, has been penning this script for a long time. The time …
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Movie Review: Project X
Project X uses horror’s found footage concept and applies it to the epic high school party. As a premise, this is not necessarily a bad …
Movie Review: The Raid: Redemption
The Raid: Redemption kicks ass. No broken bones about it. It is a wall-to-wall masterpiece of fight sequences. Keeping non-fight sequences to a minimum, writer/director …
Movie Review: The Master
Director Paul Thomas Anderson has crafted some of the most interesting movies of the past generation: Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, and Punch …
Movie Review: 21 Jump Street
The 80s have certainly been given primary treatment in 2012. Many movies have been resurrected from the past for a new generation of kids. There …
Movie Review: Princess Mononoke
It is a shame more people in the United States do not know the name Hayao Miyazaki. He is Japan’s version of Disney: his animations …
Movie Review: Lockout
Lockout is the poor man’s Taken, which is not a good start since Taken is the poor man’s Die Hard. It wastes its great premise, …
Movie Review: Compliance
I don’t think you will find a better subtle cautionary tale than Compliance. Based on a pretty accurate story that was repeated around 70 times, …
Movie Review: A Separation
A Separation is a wonderful combination of genres rolled into one: courtroom drama, family conflict, mystery, and a dysfunctional institution story. Director Asghar Farhadi sets …
Movie Review: John Carter
The original title of this movie was John Carter of Mars, which is at least an interesting title and puts the story in context. John …