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Fresh off the heels of the late year push by Hollywood comes the mostly dreaded January and February releases. Although I find this unfair to some quality films, it is unfortunately the route most studios take. On one hand, I wanted to give Contraband a legitimate shot, but on the other hand, I was afraid it’d play out like every other New Year action film. [...]
20th Century Fox has released its latest family fun movie, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, on DVD and Blu-ray. Mr. Popper’s Penguins is a movie loosely based on a 1938 book. The movie stars Jim Carrey as Thomas Popper, a divorced father who is a successful entrepreneur/realtor with a stilted and awkward relationship with his kids and ex-wife (Carla Gugino), and definite daddy issues. When a box [...]
Thirty-five years after its initial release, Flatiron Film Company releases Blue Sunshine on DVD. Blue Sunshine was written and directed by Jeff Lieberman, known for his work on Squirm the year before and the TV series ‘Til Death Do Us Part in 2006. Blue Sunshine is an approximately 90 minute long psychedelic trip masquerading as a horror movie. Blue Sunshine is premised on the theory [...]
Wasting virtually no time, studio executives set out to produce an English adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s uber-successful best selling Millenium series. The first tale, titled The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was already made in native Sweden in 2009, but that didn’t stop Hollywood from creating an English version. While some may find the remake (I prefer the term re-adaptation) unnecessary, the people who care [...]
20th Century Fox has released another 2011 Sundance movie, The Art of Getting By, on Blu-ray. The Art of Getting By stars Freddie Highmore as George, a disillusioned high school senior who lives with the belief that if everyone dies alone, why bother looking for someone along the way. Things change, of course, when he happens to notice Sally (Emma Roberts), another disillusioned, but more [...]
Let me start off by saying the film is good. I say this first because I have a feeling this may come off a bit more critical than praiseworthy. In the end, though, the film delivers in a way that makes it worth the trip to the theater. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is the sequel to Guy Ritchie’s 2009 hit Sherlock Holmes. In [...]
Each year, filmmakers are pushing the stylistic envelope, finding ways to make films visually stronger. In the case of the Mission: Impossible franchise, where each film becomes visually better as the series goes on, this progression is easily noticeable. This isn’t to say that each film gets better, but the action sequences tend to. The same can definitely be said about the fourth installment, Brad [...]
The Last Mountain, the latest DVD released by Docuramafilms, is a roughly hour and a half documentary over the plight of a small town trying to protect the last intact mountain, Coal River Mountain, in the Appalachians of West Virginia from a coal company who have taken up mountain top blasting. The Last Mountain premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and now is being [...]
20th Century Fox is releasing the Sundance Film Festival hit, Another Earth, on Blu-ray. Another Earth is the little movie, filmed on miniscule resources, that blew audiences, including myself, away. Starring William Mapother, whom you may know from Lost, and Brit Marling, who both starred and co-wrote the movie, Another Earth explores the possiblity that a second earth could give you new possibilities and a [...]
Young Adult, for all the moments it works, is a movie I’d recommend to a film student, a critic, or an aspiring screenwriter. But for the feeling you’re left with when you walk out of the theater, like you’ve just witnessed a train wreck with no survivors, I wouldn’t recommend it to the casual movie goer. Go see The Muppets, or Hugo, and let your [...]
