(2005) dir. James Mangold
viewed: 11/23/05 at Loews Metreon Theatres, SF, CA
It’s movies like this that make me realize that I could never be a newspaper or otherwise widely read critic of films, reviewer of films for the mass of the world. Films like this, whose main driver are the notable performances by the actors, [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2005
Walk the Line
March of the Penguins
(2005) dir. Luc Jacquet
viewed: 11/28/2005
It’s that penguin movie that everyone was talking about for so long. I never got around to seeing it in the theaters, which in a way is good because I was going to take my four year old son to see it and I think it would have been too slow [...]
The Interpreter
(2005) dir. Sydney Pollack
viewed: 11/19/2005
The Interpreter is a political thriller with two of the more interesting Hollywood stars, Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman, in the leading roles. Penn doesn’t do a whole lot of acting and is usually quite compelling, not typically selecting garbage in which to appear. Kidman is in lots of [...]
Primer
(2004) dir. Shane Carruth
viewed: 11/18/2005
Pretty interesting little indie sci-fi flick made on the cheap. Its cleverness and inventiveness is almost done in in the latter part of the film where narrative elipses gape wide open to the point where it’s virtually impossible to follow what is going on. It’s a little Memento (2000)-esque, [...]
Serenity
(2005) dir. Joss Whedon
viewed: 11/05/05 at Loews Metreon Theatres, SF, CA
I felt like watching something fairly mindless and action-y. It was Saturday afternoon and I had the freedom to go see whatever tickled my fancy. I made a bad decision.
This movie is awful, even by made-for-television standards, which it seemed to have a [...]
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
(2005) dir. Steve Box, Nick Park
viewed: 10/15/05 at Loews Metreon Theatres, SF, CA
Nick Park’s work is always fun, and this film is no exception. I took my son Felix to see it. He’s four and I thought he would be pretty into it. I think he found it a bit frightening, which [...]
