Don Jon, which represents Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial and screenwriting debut, is not a message movie, but it does have a message. The idea behind the film, which has been buzzing around in the actor’s head for years, is an earnest but highly entertaining ...
I’ve never been impressed by Woody Allen. Personal life aside, I find most of his movies to be dramatically too dialogue heavy, and his situations presented to the characters to be morally objectionable nine chances out of ten. He’s a conflicting personality in that ...
David M. Rosenthal’s A Single Shot is a brutal and savage slice of crime cinema. It’s as moody as the Mississippi river and as poetic. While it offers nothing new to the genre, the thriller does make for some authentic backwoods film noir.. Starring Sam Rockwell ...
Any questions of whether writer/director Luc Besson could get his Fifth Element groove back after a subsequent run of disappointments are answered in the first half hour of his black comedy called The Family. Centered around a former Mob family stashed ...
Allow me to be blunt. Insidious: Chapter 2 is scary … scary bad. There, I said it, it’s comparable only to watching an awful student film that goes nowhere in 105 minutes. It is also completely unnecessary as it can’t find its way around a proper and ...
Jayne Mansfield’s Car, which represents Billy Bob Thornton’s long-awaited return to the director’s chair, is many things. The story, which he co-wrote with long-time writing partner Tom Epperson, is a meandering slice-of-life snapshot that is funny, sad, depressing ...
Despite trailers and a title that elude to a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller set in one of the world’s most CCTV-saturated countries in the world, Closed Circuit oddly has very little to do with closed circuit cameras, or even secret surveillance for that matter. Then again, ...
What grammatical fun to be had were Kick-Ass 2 to actually kick some ass. Any number of cunning bon mots come to mind. However, the sad truth is that it doesn’t kick ass. In fact, it barely even thumps ass, or perhaps just gently moves ass out of the way. Now, ...
The convincing “downtrodden” world of District 9 is echoed. Liberal ideas of “Free Health Care for all” is the message its good guys send. More liberal ideas regarding immigration laws are defended by its bad guys. Yet, it fails to make a substantial impact ...
Why is 2 Guns, a film that features cops with guns, Navy officers with guns, CIA Agents with guns, and hoodlums with even more guns, called 2 Guns? After all, there are far more just two guns. The answer lies in its two leads who pack enough firepower to ...
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