Category Archives: 2011

Warrior has great fight scenes! Gavin O’Connor is a marvelous director with a real flair for capturing action. The fight scenes in Warrior absolutely put to shame the CGI-laden, sped-up, craptastic “fighting” found in the action films of the last … Continue reading →

Contagion is a propaganda film, designed to sell the following ideas you should trust the government you should not trust bloggers and others on the internet unions are evil China is evil Chinese people are evil the rich and powerful … Continue reading →

Colombiana is a solid, entertaining action film. It’s no nowhere near as good as Taken, which it is often compared to because they share the same director. There was something so real and unmanipulative about Taken, and this straightforwardness made … Continue reading →

The Debt is entertaining enough – it’s not a terrible movie. But it really disappointed me and failed to leave me with much of anything. It’s really very average.  It’s just an average, Hollywoody political action film,  one that suffers … Continue reading →

Yellow Brick Road is bleak, but it is a somewhat decent movie up to maybe the last fifth of the film. The opening sequence with the photos and the old sound recording of the survivor is actually really effective, better … Continue reading →

I really wanted to like Main Street because it has a lot of actors that I really like: Colin Firth, the fabulous Patricia Clarkson, Amber Tamblyn, Orlando Bloom (yes, I think he has a nice, interesting quality on screen and … Continue reading →

So the two Black Swan girls are now trying to out-do each other in nearly identical Generation-Y comedies. First Natalie Portman teams with Ashton Kutcher in No Strings Attached, and now Mila Kunis teams with Timberlake in Friends with Benefits. … Continue reading →

In my opinion The Whistleblower is a must-see, and will probably wind up being among the year’s best films. I would not personally call it a great film, but it is very, very good, especially by the meager standards of … Continue reading →

Why would you make a film about the RECENT horrors of racism in the American south, and then have it be totally antiseptic, bland and completely nonthreatening? What is the point of doing this? Are we so fucking emotionally retarded … Continue reading →

Crazy, Stupid Love is a pretty fun movie, but I feel that it took the formulaic way out at too many junctures in the story. Basically, without Steve Carell’s warmth and charisma this film would have been in trouble. He … Continue reading →