The best way to parody a certain genre is to be committed and nonchalant. Movies such as Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans spend so much time making poorly deliberate jokes that they fail to establish any grounds for themselves. The characters in these failing films even know that they’re in a foolish and embarrassing [...]
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Movie Review: MacGruber
Posted in Movie Review, tagged Kristin Wiig, Movie Review, Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer, Will Forte on May 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Inception (Posters)
Posted in Poster Impressions, tagged Christopher Nolan, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine, Movie Poster on May 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
These new posters for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming cerebral thriller, Inception, give some insight to the characters’ specific roles. Great stuff. Click to enlarge.
TV Review: LOST – “The End”
Posted in TV Review, tagged Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Daniel Dae Kim, Evangeline Lilly, JJ Abrams, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Matthew Fox, Michael Emerson, Naveen Andrews, Nestor Carbonell, Terry O'Quinn, TV Review, Yunjin Kim on May 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
That long awaited final image of LOST…Would it be a sunken island? The death of our beloved LOSTies? The demise of the Man in Black? The reveal of something completely mysterious? Well, it was none of those… Instead we got an eye. It was that same eye that first captivated us 120 episodes ago. It [...]
TV Review: Community – “Pascal’s Triangle Revisited”
Posted in TV Review, tagged Alison Brie, Chevy Chase, Dan Harmon, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Joel McHale, Ken Jeong, TV Review, Yvette Nicole Brown on May 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes, Community makes odd decisions. What normally makes these decisions inoffensive, though, is the strong conviction that comes from the show’s writing and acting. Fashionably, the first season ends with an odd choice, but this time, it lacks courage to make any impact. For the entirety of Pascal’s Triangle Revisited, Jeff is confronted with the [...]
TV Review: Modern Family – “Family Portrait”
Posted in TV Review, tagged Ed O'Neill, Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julie Bowen, Sofia Vergara, TV Review, Ty Durrell on May 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Season finales can be difficult for sitcoms such as Modern Family. I say this because the show lacks an overarching narrative, and it must be forced to achieve a sense of finality out of nowhere. Season one was given the great opportunity to end with its perfect and surreal two-part family vacation (Airport 2010 and [...]
Movie Review: Kick-Ass
Posted in Movie Review, tagged Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, Matthew Vaugh, Movie Review on May 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For the past two months, Kick-Ass has amassed critical attention for its unrelenting violence and satirical splendor. Director Matthew Vaughn has been lauded for integrating several elements of the super hero genre to create a whole new experience of action, and several viewers have compared him to the likes of Quentin Tarantino. After finally seeing [...]
Inception (Trailer)
Posted in Trailer Impressions, tagged Christopher Nolan, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Caine, Movie Trailer on May 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Unbelievable!
The American (Trailer)
Posted in Trailer Impressions, tagged George Clooney, Movie Trailer on May 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Nothing clutches my attention more than the film noir genre. Cynicism, disillusionment, fatalism…I eat it all up. Since this breed of film rarely sees light these days, anything that remotely resembles it immediately peaks my interest. George Clooney’s upcoming film The American does exactly that. Ominous cinematography, dreary music, colorful contrasts…I’m eating it all up. [...]
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