COP OUT (2010) backpedals, gives the slip, has an alibi, revokes, uses pretext, welshes, withdraws
Dir. Kevin Smith
Alamo Drafthouse Village, 3/7/10, 5:00pm
Kevin Smith’s most recent film, his first with a script that is not his own, is his best film since Clerks 2. That hilarious statement is much funnier than most of the jokes in this film that is part pastiche, part homage, and all train wreck.
The pretzels may make you thirsty, but the chemical weapons will make your town turn into THE CRAZIES (2010)
Dir. Breck Eisner
Alamo Village, 2/15/10, 11:00am
I really enjoyed this film, a remake of a George Romero film that I started and couldn’t finish this past weekend. In this film, a town is contaminated with a biological weapon and the community is set in quarantine. The result of the outbreak? People become what [...]
Is it weird that I want to live in the vampiric society of DAYBREAKERS (2009)?
Dir. The Spierig Brothers
Alamo Drafthouse Village, 01/10/10, 7:00pm
With their blood-soaked horror polemic Daybreakers, The Spierig Brothers have provided us with a very promising start to the year 2010 in cinema. In fact, I would go so far as to say that, for the remainder of the year, few films’ opening acts will be as [...]
There is more grave than gravy about A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2009)
Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Alamo Village, 12/10/09, 3:15pm
One could hear a collective groan from moviegoers everywhere when Robert Zemeckis announced that he would be making yet another motion-capture animated film (after his disappointing efforts with The Polar Express (2004) and Beowulf (2007)), that it would be yet another in an endless slew of cinematic Christmas Carol renditions, [...]
NINJA ASSASSIN (2009)
Dir. James McTeigue
Cinemark Tinseltown 15 (Beaumont, TX), 11/29/09, 2:35pm
Don’t see this movie.
Allow me to explain just what it means for me to type that particular phrase. I’m generally against discouraging people from seeing any film simply because I myself didn’t like it. After all, by doing so I would be preventing someone [...]
