Saturday, July 31, 2010
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
Friday, July 30, 2010
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Pre-digitally destroyed Zemeckis delivers a visually stimulating send-up of film noir genre. Hoskins and Lloyd lend credibility to a ridiculous concept with a mediocre screenplay. Clever effects maintain interest, as do constant cartoon character cameos. Wins points for being first film to do this and for not being Space Jam.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Inception
Another creative mental masterpiece from Nolan populated with talented cast of lesser-known actors. Revisits Memento themes and Delves into dense subject matter to pose deep philosophical and logical questions. Plot-holes and logic lapses are strangely unable to sink this intellectually stimulating puzzle, but does it connect emotionally? In your dreams.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Crazy Heart
Bridges nails washed up Dude as country singer role in Tender Mercies/Wrestler hybrid. More surprising than Bridges’ impressive singing voice is Colin Farrell going country western. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Sherrybaby again, this time as love interest. Mundanely poignant with an ending so emotionally mixed it’ll make your heart go crazy.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Predators
Sunday, July 11, 2010
The Blind Side
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Charade
Friday, July 9, 2010
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Invictus
Freeman and Damon perform excellently in another well directed Eastwood film. Handles racism topic extremely well and though Mandela’s dialogue is a bit too pointed, the film avoids being preachy. On the downside, the rugby matches are hard to follow, the story too direct, and the music cues overwhelmingly melodramatic.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
An Education
Sarsgaard resumes his frequent creepy guy role, this time enhanced by being convincingly British and in pursuit of impressively talented Carey Mulligan. A peppering of bigger stars in smaller roles support the story excellently, and beautifully written, witty dialogue prevents an otherwise endearing script from becoming too clichéd or preachy.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Toy Story 3
One of Pixar’s best and a satisfying follow-up to an overrated sequel. Phenomenal opening reintroduces characters and plays perfectly into emotional yet funny thrill ride. A few moments may be a bit too horrifying or emotionally disturbing for kids, but these instances are too perfect to omit. Es muy excelente.
Monday, July 5, 2010
The Lovely Bones
Jackson attempts return to Heavenly Creatures roots and succeeds in relevance to title, but not in quality. Continuity maintained between poorly shot Earth scenes and poorly digitally rendered heaven scenes through use of poor music video-esque editing. Tucci is sole saving grace with a performance that cuts through the editing.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
The Road
Bleak post-apocalyptic future peppered Hurt Locker style with big stars in small roles. Aragorn’s performance can’t match his previous roles despite enormous amount of screen-time devoted to emotional suicide discussions. Like No Country, exceptionally loyal adaptation of a McCarthy book. Should be titled The Day After the Day After Tomorrow.