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 [...]
One last thought on THE ROAD (2009)
Yesterday while I saw Up in the Air (review forthcoming above), they ran a trailer for Crazy Heart which features Robert Duvall in a supporting role. That reminded me of the character Duvall played in The Road. He was a traveling old man, similar in his positive morality to the two heroes of [...]
THE ROAD (2009) is not really worth the schlep
Dir. John Hilcoat
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 12/30/09, 2:05pm
After much goading by Stephen, I finally saw a matinee of this post-apocalyptic thriller. Was I disappointed? Although I had very low expectations for this picture, I was still let down. The allegory about a destructed civilization and the survival instinct left me pining for [...]
THE ROAD (2009)
Dir. John Hillcoat
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 11/25/09, 1:50pm
My journey toward really loving this movie spanned two screenings, and I can talk a bit about both of them here. I first saw The Road at the 2009 Austin Film Festival, and it was easily the film I was anticipating the most. Director John [...]
Stephen’s Thanksgiving Week Plans
Movie plans for this week:
Tuesday: Thirst on DVD, since I failed to take advantage of a number of opportunities to see it in theaters.
Wednesday: Take the parents to a movie here in Austin before heading out of town for Thanksgiving. The Messenger is playing at the Regal Arbor, but its strongly positive word of [...]
