movie reviews: 2011

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

  • Starring: Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Neve Campbell
  • Summary: Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger.


 

Thursday, April 7, 2011

White Irish drinkers

Screenwriter and Director John Gray hollow in its own context to create the ardent and atmospheric white Irish drinkers, a semi-autobiographical look at two brothers grow up in the section of the crest of the Bay of Brooklyn, in 1975. Gray, known for the CBS Ghost Whisperer series, avoids any trace of the supernatural here. The fence, intimacy good of this film is so real that it bites.
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Nick Thurston nails every nuance as Brian Leary, 18, a wannabe artist who has to stealthily to paint in a neighbourhood of slapping claims away. Gray identifies deeply with Brian, not as a painter but as a boy who dreamed of being a filmmaker. The swaggering elder brother Danny (the excellent Geoff Wigdor) of Brian is a scammer of petit-rime which found acceptance more easily among his peers, laddie-boys who are proud to circumvent the stage of the drug for hard partying as white Irish drinkers.
What unites the brothers is a relationship of love/hate shared with their father longshoreman Paddy (a superb Stephen Lang), a boozehound with a penchant for spanking on Danny and his own too forgiving wife Margaret (Karen Allen, his eyes expressive is a mirror in emotional pain holder Margaret inside).
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The performances are uniformly terrific, find the specific details that create a universal truth. Something hidden in the past of the Paddy allows Brian to escape his father punched. The result for Brian is survivor guilt. He finds sexual comfort with Shauna (Leslie Murphy), a travel agent who shares his dreams of circumvention of Brooklyn. And he latches on a substitution in Whitey father (a splendid Peter Riegert), who hires Brian to work on his movie theatre. Plot that pivots on a scheme of Whitey jackpot to call for a favour and have the Rolling Stones room at his theatre during one hour before take a concert at Madison Square Garden.
Photos: Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp and more men on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine
Gray builds tension as gears Whitey for his big night and Danny gives steal the box office.  But the soul of the film lies in the legacy of violence and the dynamics that can connect to a family or overwrite. Gray, white Irish drinkers is one of the battered heart.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Winner winner

Director Tom McCarthy is a kind of Wizard. In his hands, take simple stories (The Station Agent, the visitor) about the grainy texture and life emotional heft as he lived, pas profiled by Hollywood. Win Win, which he wrote with Joe Tiboni, is more recent McCarthy, hilarious and heartfelt gem with a hard core which pushes all things Sappy Records. Paul Giamatti gives a master acting as Mike Flaherty, a New Jersey lawyer who specializes in the care of the elderly and, more recently, in the corners of the Cup. With the economy squeezing the life of Mike with wife Jackie (the wonderful never Amy Ryan) and their two children, he took guardianship of Leo about dementia (Burt Young) without having the intention of winning its monthly fee. When Ohio, Leo junkie daughter, Cindy (Melanie Lynskey), Tomb Leo cash research, Mike revolt.
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But who is more selfish? Mike uses the son alienated Kyle (Alex Shaffer), Cindy, to boost his case and the losing team to catch the high school that he coaches with his friend Terry (a superb Bobby Cannavale). Newcomer Shaffer is an expert wrestler, and it shows; It is his natural talent. His scenes with Giamatti floor you. Nothing fancy - which is not the style of McCarthy. Neither is drum rah-rah. This film earns you more, head and heart, without cheating. It is almost perfect.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Limitless

Do you know how science said that we can access only 20 percent of our brain? Well, Eddie Morra, blocked writer Bradley Cooper played with valve of humour and heart bruised in unlimited, ups the ante to 100%. And suddenly, it is a typewriter, a linguist, one against, a wolf of Wall Street and a man owned. Thanks to a small pill jagged called NZT. It is illegal, well understood and rare even at $600 a pop push near OD level and pieces of your memory go poof! Try to go the cold Turkey, and your head will threaten to explode. Unlimited strikes you as an adrenalin which will have you saying: "I'll have what he has."
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It is the thing on a thriller of corn blown that really POPs. You are way less than 20% of your brain and warm current, collective hedonistic. Cooper out swinging, extending from charm and sex appeal on the monster becomes Eddie. And Director Neil Burger (the illusionist) corresponds to its intensity. Working from the spiky script Leslie Dixon carved novel by Alan Glynn The Dark Fields, 2001, Burger rides this fantasy escape in high style and hard. Robert De Niro, in an expensive haircut which does not hide quite smile of a thug, adds threat as Carl Van Loon (the name of love), a business mogul who wants to know where Eddie gets his mojo. And Abbie Cornish combines love found and lost in one lovely package. Again, this is show of Cooper, and the hangover Star treats Eddie as a role to feast, he done with enthusiasm. It intercepts all excess drab of a writer in New York, infamous for its failure to launch. The NZT ensured by a friend who is quickly murdered is her ticket, as long as supply lasts. Enter the NARCS, followed by the superior forces wishing to exploit the next big thing. The script sets up a premise of mind that a few real-world cultural wunderkinds may have their own NZT. I have never said that you, Mark Zuckerberg.
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OK, unlimited has its limits. The plot touches some nasty speed bumps, and the end is rote. But getting there is tremendous, Bending fun. Watch Eddie flex its brain cells takes a kick tied with Spider-Man to test his skills with small jumps and jump until it is leaping across rooftops. Note: the pill is not magic, it can only highlight the smarts you already have. The real housewives of Nip/Tuck USA will still have a struggle. What does unlimited a powerful provocation for the age of Adderall. It is a dream of wet for anyone who has never dreamed to make a step ahead on the information highway. The worst side effect is that you will not believe a word of the thing done in the morning. Fair exchange.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Sucker Punch


Looks are not everything. Example: Sucker Punch, a dazzling visual design that will not have the ear every time he opens his mouth dumb or makes the claims of depth. Zack Snyder, who led the guardians, 300, the legend of animation of the guardians: the OWL Ga'Hoole and a better decent restart of Dawn of the Dead, flounder evil in this action-fantasy on babes in bondage. Script Snyder, written with Steve Shibuya, is a recipe for a torrid hellzapoppin rated R' that pussies in this PG-13 security zone.
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The film, original first Snyder, comes offshore a tease that police on its premise of poor quality but kinky. Take Babydoll, protagonist put-upon film, played with a perpetual pout and undies black by Emily Browning. Snyder Babydoll outfits in gear fetish, but supplies no Browning character to play. Just surface. The time is the 1960s. The place is insane asylum of Lennox House, where Babydoll - shaken by the death of his mother - is sent by her stepfather when she rebuffs his advances slobbering. Did I mention that Eurythmics "sweet dreams (Are made of This)" plays with poor sledgehammer Babydoll irony is used and abused? He did so.
Photos: Leading ladies on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine
In the loony bin, Babydoll is tortured by blue (Oscar Isaac him portrayed as a personified rictus) with the help of Mrs. Gorski (Carla Gugino), a Professor of dance with a scandalous focus and stilettos to mark his personality. At night, blue contributes to the High Roller (Jon Hamm, fire your agent) transform Lennox in a brothel where Babydoll may sale-dance for the delight of male creeps.
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What is Babydoll do? Liaison with other girls like her, of course. There is brunette Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens miles of High School Musical), sassy Rocket (Jena Malone), reliable Amber (Jamie Chung) protection and Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish, a fine actress he touches). Real girls or unbridled imagination of Babydoll? Believe me, you keep. After they make Rockette unnecessary dance numbers and natter as releases of Sex and the City.
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The five fantastic defeating their male exploiters? No, but they fantasize about it. At the first sign of nudity, easy censor the camera cuts to dream scenes of girls in Warrior made drag goes medieval on the donkeys of giant snakes, Samurai with Gatling guns and the orcs that serve as dragons ("" not awake mother""). Scott Glenn plays the wise to help turned to the battle. I'm not this. Snyder was leaving shy inconsistency of the ravages of the head to ours. Talk about a film derived from punch. Only a sucker would buy it.
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Friday, April 1, 2011

Take Me Home Tonight

What you say about a film coming of age established in 1988, shot in 2007 and released just now? I mean, besides the WTF? To begin, I would like to say that Take Me Home Tonight just enough heart and mind of retro party to hold the line before the familiarity breeds contempt.


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Producer-star Topher Grace, moving from a decade of this show of the 1970s, plays Matt Franklin, a grad MIT working at Suncoast video all decide what to do with his life. The decision? Party hearty. In a Mercedes stolen by his pal Barry (Dan Fogler), Matt hits a blowout of the labour day filled with blow (drug use delayed the release of the r-rated film). He was invited by school secondary unrequited crush Tori Frederking (Teresa Palmer), now an investment banker, who is impressed when Matt is that it is rising stars at Goldman Sachs.


Photos: Head of men on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine


The film, directed by Michael Dowse, is a night noisy, a torrid, American Graffiti filtered by Dazed and Confused and films Shermer high part of John Hughes. For spices, add Anna Faris as Matt binoculars in a relationship with Chris Pratt as the tonnage of jock ready to put on a ring. Matt finally boinks "The Frederking," Barry slobbers on ta-tas of a redhead with his date to watch, coke is snorted, property is damaged, and the soundtrack of the movie explosions Eighties covers ("Don ' T You Want Me"). Take Me Home Tonight captures a moment in time with sly affection. You keep waiting for the engine to rev up, but is not blocked on the idle.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The adjustment Bureau

Beware of men in hats, including John Slattery in a fedora Mad Men. They may be the personification of fate. Hats gives them the hoodoo you prevent from running with your babe of choice. At least this is what is happening to David Norris (Matt Damon), the Member of the Congress of bad boy who met the Ballerina Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt) at night it concedes defeat in her New York Senate run. His love, but fate conspires to keep them apart until David is his own hat and begins to allegorical kicked ass.
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Welcome to the Office of the adjustment, freely and loosely adapted from 1954 short story Philip k. Dick fit team by screenwriter George Nolfi (The Bourne Ultimatum, twelve Ocean) in his directing debut. Writing science fiction by Dick has led to several fine films, including Blade Runner and Minority Report. But the adjustment Bureau misses by a mile. Despite heroic efforts by Damon and beautiful Blunt to construct a plausible love story, the film dissolves in stupidity. That Dick has made powerful, Nolfi makes it absurd.