Kind of like Rocky for the modern, MMA-loving era Warrior tells the story of a down-on-his-luck father and husband who is running out of money and opportunities to help his family when he decides to do the one last thing that can make money: fight. He used to do it in his youth but now [...]
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Warrior
Posted in Film, Reviews, tagged Film, Films, Joel Edgerton, Movie, Movies, Nick Nolte, Review, Reviews, Tom Hardy, Warrior on September 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Apollo 18
Posted in Film, Reviews, tagged Apollo 18, Film, Films, Horror, Movie, Movies, Review, Reviews, sci-fi, science-fiction on September 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Apollo 18 is one of those movies trying to capitalize on the success of Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project before it and, in a way, it proves successful. Critics complain that this style of filming, using handheld cameras for a secret diary feel, is old and dated but its one of my favorite [...]
No Strings Attached
Posted in Film, Reviews, tagged Ashton Kutcher, Film, Films, Movie, Movies, Natalie Portman, No Strings Attached, Review, Reviews on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
No Strings Attached, starring the stupidly good-looking team of Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher, was a fine comedy about two friends who decide to have a relationship of just sex without any emotions attached to it or even the facade of a relationship. Of course, you’d think that they’d end up happily together by the [...]
Skyline
Posted in Film, Reviews, tagged Film, Films, Movie, Movies, Review, Reviews, sci-fi, science-fiction, Skyline on November 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The movie Skyline looked great in trailers, with the obvious money shot of thousands of human being sucked into the alien ship being the focal point and when that scene does come up it’s great visually but it’s a shame there was no movie to put that scene in. The script, what little there is, [...]
Due Date
Posted in Film, Reviews, tagged Buddy Movie, Comedy, Due Date, Film, Films, Movie, Movies, Review, Robert Downey Jr. on November 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Due Date is obviously based on the classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles but doesn’t quite reach that level of comedy gold. A buddy movie where the buddies aren’t really buddies at all, the movie starts with Robert Downey Jr. being put on the banned list at an airport due to an altercation with Zach Galifianakis’s [...]
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