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Marc · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 4:59 pm Post subject:

Shutter Island
That movie based on Dennis Lehane's mystery-thriller
novel starring Leo and directed by Martin Scorsese.
RATING: B

The Cry of the Owl
A women becomes attracted to a stalker who may
or may not have killed her ex-boyfriend. It stars
Paddy Considine (BackWoods) & Julia Stiles.
RATING: B-

Marc · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:53 pm Post subject:

Youth In Revolt
That teen alter-ego comedy starring Michael Cera.
RATING: B+

Alice In Wonderland
I always checkout Tim Burton's films.
RATING: B

The Book of Eli
Denzel Washington squares off against Gary Oldman
in this post-apocalyptic flick directed by the Hughes
Brothers (Menace II Society, American Pimp, From Hell).
RATING: B-

Marc · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:37 pm Post subject:

The Missing Person
A down on his luck private investigator is hired
to bring back a presumed dead man to his wife.
RATING: B+

Staten Island
Three Staten Islanders lives colide into each other
in this mobster driven drama.
RATING: B

Daybreakers
A vampire dominated world in 2019 tries to figure
out how to overcome a major shortage of blood.
RATING: C

Marc · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:47 am Post subject:

Unthinkable
An intense thriller about an interrogator who must
find out where three nuclear weapons ready to
detonate are located. Stars Samuel L. Jackson.
RATING: B

Don McKay
A man returns to his hometown 25 years later with
a mysterous secret. Stars Thomas Haden Church.
RATING: B-

The Eclipse
A Irish horror movie of sorts about a widower
who believes he is seeing ghosts.
RATING: B-

Hot Tub Time Machine
John Cusack returns to the 80s.
RATING: B-

Marc · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:45 pm Post subject:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The U.S. version isn't needed.
RATING: A-

Greenberg
That Ben Stiller dramedy directed and written
by Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming).
RATING: B-

Stoic
A prison flick written and directed by Uwe Boll.
RATING: F

Marc · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 6:56 pm Post subject:

A Single Man
A drama about a gay English professor in the 60s who
tries to go about his every day life after his partner dies.
Colin Firth's performance makes this worth watching.
RATIING: B-

Saint John of Las Vegas
Steve Buscemi stars as an ex-gambler who gets
a chance to get his life back on track when he is
promoted to a fraud investigator.
RATING: C

The Runaways
That bio-pic about Joan Jett's former all-girl band.
RATING: C

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Marc · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 5:56 pm Post subject:

The Ghost Writer
That Roman Polanski directed political-thriller.
RATING: B

The Losers
After being betrayed a group of CIA black ops
seek revenge in this comic-book based action flick.
RATING: B-

Death At A Funeral
A remake of the 2007 British comedy. It stars
Chris Rock and Martin Lawrence. Directed by
Neil LaBute (In The Company of Men).
RATING: C

Cop Out
That Bruce Willis-Tracy Morgan cop-buddy flick
directed by Kevin Smith.
RATING: C

Date Night
That Steve Carell-Tina Fey comedy.
RATING: C

Neighbor
A horror movie about a mysterious new girl
in a suburban neighborhood.Torture-Porn!
RATING: D

Pendragon · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 3:47 pm Post subject:

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Despicable Me
Deftly walks a fine line for a movie that is filled with super-villains. Not too many huge laughs, but keeps you chuckling consistently. Also not too schmaltzy, which is a trap that all-ages movies can fall into. Julie Andrews, as Gru's mother, is the scene-stealer.
Grade: B-plus

Dinner With Schmucks
I'm finally convinced to go give Dan In Real Life a try because Steve Carrell makes anything at least watchable. This entire movie hinges on his ability to pull off his character, Barry, and he delivers. Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis and Jemaine Clement are also very funny as The Straight Man, The Weird Guy and The Odd Foreigner, and lead a great supporting cast of comics and comic writers. (Okay, so maybe we're not stretching here, but good comedy doesn't have to be groundbreaking, just funny.) Stay until the end of the credits.
Grade: B-plus

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The Slammin' Salmon
Another movie from the Broken Lizard guys, who excel in a movie genre I love: stupid, funny movies that are smartly aware of how stupid they are. Sometimes it works(Beerfest, one of the great movies of this generation), sometimes it doesn't (Club Dred). This one isn't a laugh riot, but it's not terrible. Michael Clarke Duncan gets the most laughs as the ex-boxing champ/restauranteur Cleon Salmon.
Grade: C-plus

Hot Tub Time Machine
A silly comedy with a surprising amount of heart; not so much the crazed sex comedy it was promoted as so much as three guys owning up to their lives and getting their shit together with thanks to their unlikely second chance. It was nice to see longtime favorites Rob Corddry and Craig Robinson more than hold their own with John Cusack. I felt like they could have gotten a lot more out of Chevy Chase's character.
Grade: B-minus

Marc · Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 6:20 pm Post subject:

Pig Hunt
A group of friends on a hunting trip for a killer
3000 pound pig come across crazed rednecks
and a female hippie cult in this fun horror flick.
Les Claypool did the music for the film.
RATING: B+

City Island
An off-beat dramedy about a Bronx family.
RATING: B

Survival of the Dead
The latest George A. Romero zombie flick.
RATING: B-

Triage
A photojournalist returns home from a war zone
with a terrible secret about what happened there
to a colleague and him.
RATING: C

Triangle
A horror movie about a group of friends on a
boating trip that come across a mysterious ship.
RATING: D

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Batman: Under The Red Hood
One of the better entries from DC's direct-to-video library. Crisply animated and generally well-acted. Bruce Greenwood makes a pretty cool Batman.
Grade: B-plus

Pretty Bird
Billy Crudup and Paul Giamatti star in a fictional account of a start-up company that tried to sell the Bell Rocket Belt. Well-acted and paced, but the last half-hour becomes such a fuck-up that the overall movie is ruined.
Grade: D

Marc · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:18 pm Post subject:

The Killer Inside Me
Based on Jim Thompson's pulp fiction crime novel.
RATING: B

Bodyguards and Assassins
A martial arts period piece about the assassination
attempt of revolutionary Dr. Sun Yat Sen in Hong Kong.
RATED: B-

Chloe
A sexual-thriller about a women who suspects her husband
is cheating that hires an escort to test his loyalty to her.
Directed by Atom Egoyan (Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter).
RATING: C

MacGruber
That SNL skit based movie starring and written by Will Forte.
RATED: C

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Marc · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:53 pm Post subject:

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Marc · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:39 pm Post subject:

Casino Jack and the United States of Money
A documentary about lobbyist Jack Abramoff that looks
at the greed and corruption in politics caused by money.
RATING: A-

Ip Man 2
The sequel to the great martial arts flick about the
life of the man who went on to train Bruce Lee.
Stars the amazing Donnie Yen.
RATING: B

Frozen
Three skiers stranded on a chairlift are forced to
make life-or-death choices. Directed and written
by Adam Green (Hatchet).
RATING: C

Get Him to the Greek
That spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall
starring the overrated Russell Brand.
RATING: C

Marc · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 11:14 am Post subject:

Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie
A documentary about two men in Ohio who
are trying to prove that Bigfoot exists.
RATING: B

Ballast
A stark drama about how one man's suicide effects
three people's lives in the Mississippi delta.
RATING: B

Suck
A comedy about a vampire rock 'n' roll band.
Has cameos by Alice Cooper, Henry Rollins,
Iggy Pop, Moby and Alex Lifeson.
RATING: C

Marc · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:01 am Post subject:

This Movie Is Broken
A concert movie of sorts centered around a
romance and a Broken Social Scene show.
RATING: B+

Leaves Of Grass
The lives of two identical twins, one a professor
and other a pot grower, collide into each other.
Edward Norton stars as the twins.
RATING: B

As Good As Dead
Fundamental loyalists kidnap a man who may or
may not have killed their religious leader.
RATING: B

Jonah Hex
The comic is much better.
RATING: C-

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Date Night
Steve Carell and Tina Fey (and a bunch of good cameos) save a completely implausible movie. There are moments of heavy stuff in here, which they deftly weave in and out of with the silliness and chaos that's going on around them. Could have used a grander, more Blues Brothers-style scope... except for two scenes, this movie feels very small.
Grade: B

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
One of DC Direct's better offerings, from a voice acting, writing, and action standpoint, on par with Green Lantern: First Flight and Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths. Based on the artistic stylings of Michael Turner, which drags this movie down considerably. Granted, superheroes are supposed to look, well, heroic. Turner's art makes the males look like anemic supermodels (naturally this works better - albeit only slightly - for the females). There are some dialogue-driven scenes where'd you'd swear Superman(!!) just got back from a Botox appointment. Great job duplicating the artwork (which made the original "Superman/Batman" issues all but unreadable), terrible job in not knowing better.
Grade: C-plus

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Marc · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 3:31 pm Post subject:

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Totally does the comic justice.
RATING: B+

The Girl Who Played With Fire
Again no need for the American version.
RATING: B+

Centurion
A gory battle flick set during Roman Empire times.
Directed by Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dog Soldiers).
RATING: B

Holy Rollers
Jesse Eisenberg stars as an Orthodox Jew
in Brooklyn who becomes a drug smuggler.
RATING: B-

Winter's Bone
A girl from the Ozark Mountains tries to track down
her drug dealing father to save the family home.
RATING: B-

Predators
Based on Robert Rodriguez's old script it
has the same feel as the two 80's films,
but not quite as good.
RATING: B-

Grown Ups
That Sandler, Rock, Spade & Schneider comedy.
RATING: C

Marc · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:53 pm Post subject:

The Disappearance of Alice Creed
A kidnap for ransom flick.
RATING: B

I'm Still Here
That Joaquin Phoenix mockumentary.
RATING: B

Whiteout
A female U.S. Marshall tries to solve a murder case
before six months of darkness in Antarctica. Based
on Greg Rucka's excellent graphic novel.
RATING: B

The Last Airbender
This M. Night Shyamalan directed film
was better than I expected.
RATING: B-

Vampires Suck
A spoof of the recent vampire craze.
RATING: B-

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Marc · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 6:39 pm Post subject:

Marc · Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 8:31 am Post subject:

Easy A
A high school girl pretends to lose her virginity
to advance her own status in this well done
black comedy starring Emma Stone.
RATING: B+

Going The Distance
That Drew Barrymore-Justin Long R-rated comedy.
RATING: B

Salt
That Angelina Jolie spy-thriller.
RATING: B-

Devil
Five people are trapped in an elevator and one of them
is the devil. Story by M. Night Shyamalan and directed by
John Erick Dowdle (The Poughkeepsie Tapes).
RATING: C

Wall Street 2
Oliver Stone misfires a bit on his sequel to his 1987 film.
RATING: C

Knight & Day
That Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz secret-agent flick.
RATING: C-

Marc · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 1:35 pm Post subject:

Catfish
That documentary internet-dating thriller.
RATING: B+

The Last Exorcism
A horror movie about an evangelical minister that
lets his last exorcism be filmed by a documentary crew.
RATING: B+

Machete
That Robert Rodriguez directed and written action
flick based on his fake trailer in the movie Grindhouse.
RATING: B

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