Posted in Remakes, tagged Jude Law, Micheal Caine, mystery, remake on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is nice to see Jude Law go from sure of himself to a sniveling, groveling shell with no stops in between.
This was a head-scratcher of a movie. It was stylized, well lit and moody. But it wanted to have lots of clever plot twists and it failed at that aim. I never saw the original and I still [...]
Posted in 2008, Thriller on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OK, let’s be clear – this is a movie about a complicated conspiracy, told from several different view points. So, if you hate seeing the same thing repeatedly, or have trouble suspending your disbelief over large bizarre conspiracies – then clearly this in not the movie for you.
If you can suspend your disbelief (or [...]
Posted in 2008, Movies, Sequels, horror, tagged george romero, Reviews, zombie movies on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think I learned two lessons from this movie. The first is that not only have the dead risen, and they are blood thirsty, but in this modern age, they also love the internet. That is the only explanation I can come up with for the this movie moment: A man uploads film to his [...]
Posted in Biopic, tagged Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgewick, Hayden Christensen, Sienna Miller on March 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I didn’t know too much about Edie Sedgwick other than she was one of those “It” girls back in the ‘60s and she hung around with Andy Warhol. And watching Factory Girl doesn’t add a lot in terms of Edie’s personal accomplishments, but it does paint a portrait of a happy on the surface / [...]
Posted in '07, Sci-Fi, Thriller, tagged Alex Garland, Cillian Murphy, Danny Boyle, movie review Sunshine on March 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A sci-fi movie set in the not too distant future in which a team of astronauts is on a mission to the sun. Well, not actually to the sun, but very close to the sun. Close enough for them to launch the “payload” which is a nuclear device intended to re-ignite the sun and save [...]
