In Movies – Just Like In Baseball – Being ‘Good On Paper’ Will Only Take You So Far.
Category: reviews
Only films I see in a theatre get a full-on review. Other titles seen on dvd and the like are covered in the “Reactions” section. My take on spoilers is that they pertain to the crux of the filmgoing experience – so while my posts aren’t what I’d call “spoilerific”, consider yourself warned.
All films are rated from one to four stars.
Nicholas Winding Refn Gets Hollywood Actors and a Hollywood Budget, but Sticks to His Grindhouse Guns.
Brendan Gleason Brings Some Cheeky Irish Humour to End Off My Summer.
Yet Another Life Less Ordinary.
Soderbergh Unleashes a Plague, and Shows Us That The Disease is Just The Beginning of The Danger.
Judging It as a Piece of Schlock Cinema – It Succeeds. Now We Need to Decide How Much Stock We Put in Schlock.
Something Seemingly So Predictable Turns Sweet, Honest, and Truly Surprising.
A Buddy-Film Throwback That Holds the Cheese
Bromantic chemistry pulls a silly concept back from certain doom.
Could the on-screen pairing of James Bond and Indiana Jones possibly deliver the joy of either franchise?
Two Solid Hours of Apple Pie.
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