NINE (2009) goes 0.5 too far
Dir. Rob Marshall
Cinemark Tinseltown 15 (Beaumont, TX), 12/29/09, 11:30am
I have managed to see two astonishing misfires at the cinema in recent weeks. The first was Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones at Butt-Numb-a-Thon, and the second is Rob Marshall’s Nine, a remake of Federico Fellini’s masterpiece, 8 1/2. Many who have seen Nine do [...]
Downey Jr. has eye on second franchise in SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009)
Dir. Guy Ritchie
Cinemark Tinseltown 15 (Beaumont, TX), 12/26/09, 10:35pm
Watching Robert Downey Jr. play the title role in director Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, I couldn’t help but think of Harrison Ford, or, more specifically, what appears to be Downey Jr.’s ambitions toward becoming the new Harrison Ford. Having already played the greedy, self-preserving but ultimately [...]
FANTASTIC MR FOX (2009)
Dir. Wes Anderson
Cinemark Tinseltown 15 (Beaumont, TX), 12/02/09, 7:35pm
Earlier this year, Daniel and I had a discussion about Pixar’s latest film, Up. He felt that the film too often panders to children, and that Pixar’s proven abilities for storytelling and character development are wasted whenever the film allows for childish humor or action sequences. [...]
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 [...]
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (2009)
Dir. Spike Jonze
Cinemark Tinseltown 15 (Beaumont, TX), 11/26/09, 7:25pm
This is a review of my third (that’s right, third) viewing of Where the Wild Things Are, which should give you an idea of how much I adore this film. What can I say about director Spike Jonze? He has made only three feature-length [...]
