(2009) dir. David Twohy
viewed: 12/30/09
Just a forwarning, it’s going to be impossible for me to talk about this movie without discussing major plot points and “spoilers” so if you think I’m going to ruin it for you, well, let’s just say I told you so.
Written and directed by David Twohy, one of the smaller names [...]
Archive of entries posted on December 2009
A Perfect Getaway
Overnight
(2003) dir. Tony Montana, Mark Brian Smith
viewed: 12/30/09
Overnight is the part two of my The Boondock Saints (1999)-themed double feature. And I recommend the opportunity to watch them together in that order. The film The Boondock Saints is a good indie film about two Irish brothers who go on a killing spree in Boston, taking down primarilly [...]
The Boondock Saints
(1999) dir. Troy Duffy
viewed: 12/30/09
The Boondock Saints is a cult film, gained popularity via DVD/video, and somehow I never managed to see it. It was part of the “Indie” movie craze in the 1990’s, following Quentin Tarantino’s Resevoir Dogs (1992) and Pulp Fiction (1994) (and others). And I’d heard about it, that it was supposed [...]
Mutant Chronicles
(2008) dir. Simon Hunter
viewed: 12/30/09
Bad science fiction. Gotta love it.
Actually, Mutant Chronicles doesn’t really entertain quite to the level of badness that it could. It’s still bad. Very bad. Yet somehow they got John Malkovich to show up in it. Outside of that the cast is made up of Ron Perlman, Devon Aoki, Thomas Jane [...]
The Brothers Bloom
(2008) dir. Rian Johnson
viewed: 12/28/09
The Brothers Bloom is the most recent film from director Rian Johnson, whose prior effort Brick (2005) was an interesting surprise. This film, however, kind of came and went from theaters without much hoopla, though I’d recalled that it hadn’t gotten bad reviews.
It stars Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo as the titular [...]
Beautiful Losers
(2008) dir. Aaron Rose
viewed: 12/18/09
This documentary covers the art and aesthetics of a group of non-professional DIY-inspired artists who evolved their work from shared influences of graffiti, punk, skateboarding, and other stuff and developed through into commercial success and influential status. This group doesn’t seem to have had such a “name” but centered around a New [...]
Avatar
(2009) dir. James Cameron
viewed: 12/28/09 at AMC Loews Metreon 16, SF, CA
James Cameron (Titanic (1997), among others) has finally unleashed his Avatar on the public. Long in incubation, expensively technological (nearly 70% Computer Graphics, including much motion-capture), and promoted as the greatest thing (this week or last) since whatever the last greatest thing was, this [...]
Dracula
(1931) dir. Tod Browning
viewed: 12/27/09
This is “the Dracula” in cinema. Heaven knows that there are many more, but this is the Dracula by which all others, if not measured, are at least compared. Directed by Tod Browning (Freaks (1932), The Unholy Three (1925), among others) and starring in his definitive and defining role, Bela Lugosi, who it [...]
Carriers
(2009) dir. Àlex Pastor, David Pastor
viewed: 12/26/09
A serious B-movie, this PG-13 rated contagion-based horror film strives for a slightly more significant meaning. Directed by brother team Àlex and David Pastor, it’s another end of the world via disease movie. This case, though, it only makes people sick, doesn’t make them homicidal zombies. And while there [...]
Sherlock Holmes
(2009) dir. Guy Ritchie
viewed: 12/26/09 at CineArts @ the Empire, SF, CA
Though I’d been liking the trailers since I’d first seen them in theaters some months ago, some early negative reviews of this film highlighting the “Guy Ritchie” factor led me to lower my expectations and even consider skipping this film. While that wouldn’t have [...]
