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- Citizenfour – a fascinating and important topic, but a disappointing documentary
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- Laggies – a delightful little film about late-blooming misfits
- Two Days, One Night – it’s (almost) exactly what you expect it to be
- Whiplash – a disgusting, stupidly manipulative piece of absurdity.
- Still Alice – big stars, big production, but still just a Hallmark movie of the week
- Wild – it’s surprisingly well-made and fun to watch
- Black Sea – diverting, but sadly predictable
- Birdman (Or the Expected Emptiness of Pretension)
- Mr. Turner – Planet of the Ape
- The Imitation Game – It’s an abomination
- A Brief Word on the 2014 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts
- Kill The Messenger – The important and tragic story of Gary Webb, the mainstream media, and the CIA
- This is Where I Leave You – the latest in a long line of “family reunion” movies
- A review of summer cinema – it was pretty grim!
- The Trip to Italy – It never should have been made
- A Most Wanted Man – Superficially entertaining, but poorly-made and overrated
- Magic in the Moonlight – It’s pissing me off!
- The Purge: Anarchy – Surprisingly, it’s rather good
- I Origins – ambitious and entertaining
- Boyhood – a bit one dimensional, but its one dimension is lovely, impressive and fun to experience
- Obvious Child – cute, dignified and gutsy
- Snowpiercer – a fantastic, riveting science fiction action allegory
- Edge of Tomorrow – it’s fairly entertaining
- Begin Again – confronting the future of pop music head-on
- The Fault in Our Stars – not super-moving, but definitely enjoyable
- Hellion – a gritty tale of fucked up parents and children
- Night Moves – a cool, subtle portrayal of hippy-liberal activism turned violent
- Cold In July – an outstandingly fun and unusual film, and a paean for the 1980s
- Austenland – so horrible, I’m speechless
- Elena – 80 minutes of torture
- Lucky Them – Toni Collette takes center stage and lights up the screen!
- Belle – it means well, but God is it slow (and dull)
- Finding Vivian Maier – an okay documentary on a fascinating artist
- The German Doctor (Wakolda) – Diverting, but feels more than a little contrived
- Chef – it’s heart is in the right place
- Jodorowsky’s Dune – a bizarre and amazing documentary
- Hateship, Loveship – it goes down well
- Divergent – entertaining, but there’s a lot wrong with it
Author Archives: roguespirit
Farewell – what a disapointment!
I went into Farewell with my expectations way too high. I can see that now. My wife and I love (good) espionage thrillers and we were pretty damn bored in this film. We got duped by the preview, which was … Continue reading
Posted in 2009, 2010
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Salt – non-stop action (but not much else)
My wife and I saw Salt on opening night at the 19th street theater in Manhattan. We enjoyed it for what it was, both both agreed that it was a very surface-level kind of enjoyment. Angelina is pretty good in … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
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Chloe – illustrating America’s problem with sex
I knew from the opening narration in Chloe that we were in trouble: Amanda Seyfried, sounding like a dopey school-kid, describing how she services her clients as a high-end prostitute. Yeah, right! It’s the worst and most unconvincing opening scene … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
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Precious – a girl living a tough life
My wife and I finally caught up with Precious. Wow, what a great little movie! First off, let me just say that Mo’nique’s performance is so fucking amazing it took my breath away. I’m always a little skeptical when I … Continue reading
Posted in 2009
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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work – a terrific documentary!
My wife took me to see Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work at IFC in Manhattan. We both enjoyed it enormously and declared that Joan Rivers is our new hero! I know it sounds silly, but for some reason I … Continue reading
Inception – The Matrix meets 2012 meets Hot Tub Time Machine
Inception is an extremely fatiguing and boring movie. My wife was falling asleep, and that is saying something because the last two hours of the film is nothing but car chases, gun fire, explosions, people fighting in zero gravity, buildings … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
Tagged 2012, Christopher Nolan, Ellen Page, Hot Tub Time Machine, Inception, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Leonardo Dicaprio, Michael Cain, The Matrix
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My Life Without Me (2003): An Appreciation
Even casual readers of this blog will have noticed that I am always bitching about how current movies have no dialog, poor pacing, poor texture, poor incidental acting, make clumsy use of music, use narration as a crutch, and so … Continue reading
The Last Station – Booooooooring!
This gutless film put me to sleep. Basically, it’s boring in the first half, and REALLY boring in the second half. Waiting for Tolstoy to kick the bucket is agonizing. Everyone is blubbering and trying to act all broken up, … Continue reading
The Kids are All Right – Solid, but nothing special
My wife and I went to see this movie at the third avenue theater in the east village. It was showing every half-hour and every show was sold out. The line to get in to the 6:00 was all the … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
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The Girl who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden)
My wife and I saw The Girl who Played with Fire at Angelica in NYC and we both really enjoyed it, even more than the first movie, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The Girl who Played with Fire is … Continue reading
Posted in 2010
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