Category Archives: movie reviews and thoughts

I watched The Motorcycle Diaries a couple days ago. From the IMDB summary: “The Motorcycle Diaries is an adaptation of a journal written by Ernesto Guevara (Bernal) when he was 23 years old. He and his friend, Alberto Granado (de … Continue reading →

It’s been a while since I’ve seen a truly original film, and this one is no exception. While the plot and dialogue cover concepts such as monism, nihilism, and existentialism, the film fell just slightly flat of being something more … Continue reading →

Since I only had cursory knowledge of Ray Charles’s history and works, some events in this movie surprised me.

Frank Miller wrote the Sin City comic book, now Robert Rodriguez is making it into a movie. This could be good. Let’s see them do it with Max Payne.

Just watched Closer, which is beautiful, well acted, well shot, well written – and I hate it. Somebody else give it a review, I despise this thing the way the people who believe in the spirit of Christmas hate Bad … Continue reading →

I just finished watching The Terminal. It was ok, take the general plot and make bad guys and a bunch of heros from the local working class. The true story is both far more bizarre and far more sad. Tom … Continue reading →

I watched this movie the other day and found it surprisingly entertaining. The plot centers around a squad of British soldiers on a training exercise in Scotland who are ambushed by a pack of lycanthropes (not a spoiler, it’s pretty … Continue reading →

Finally got around to watching this film. Ok, blah blah blah, romantic comedy, etc. All that aside. It starts off slow, but with a lot of visual comedy – the things out of place or taken too extremes. That’s sort … Continue reading →

I picked up Badasssss! from Netflix while looking for award winning movies that I hadn’t seen yet. It’s suprisingly good, and I didn’t really understand the background until after I’d seen the film. It’s the actual true story of Melvin … Continue reading →

My movie workin’ brother has started a blog about that wild and crazy hollywood life.