I’ve probably said this a million times by now, but Doomsday is what you get when you take films such as 28 Days Later, The Road Warrior, The Warriors, and Escape from New York and combine them with a dash of Excalibur. So yeah, the film is not that original and that is probably its…
Over the years we’ve seen Will Ferrell play a soccer coach (Kicking and Screaming), Nascar Driver (Talladega Nights), and a figure-skater (Blades of Glory). Now, we get to see him as a basketball player. I will be first to say that this brand of Will Ferrell humour is starting to get old. While I did…
I first heard of this film in May 2006 and I thought it’s premise of making homemade remakes to popular films sounded good on paper. Also, it was directed by Michel Gondry, who always brings a unique vision to his films and music videos (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind being one of my favourites)….
Vantage Point is a sad example of a film that I personally enjoyed, while many of the other people in the theatre obviously didn’t. Based on what I overheard from my fellow movie patrons, the reason for this dislike is how the film is structured. The film centres around one incident, which is repeated in…
Before I continue with the review, I should make a correction from yesterday’s Movies of the Moment post. I said that The Eye was the latest J-Horror remake, when it actually the remake of a Hong Kong horror film. That said, the Asian influence wasn’t as evident in this film as films like The Ring…
I never saw any of the previous First Blood/Rambo films, but it know well of their reputation of being synonymous with action films. I would say the forth film, with follows the similarly eponymous Rocky Balboa, lives up to the series’ hardcore action reputation. Sylvester Stallone does not hold back with the action scenes and…
I had really mixed thoughts as I left the theatre after seeing the J.J. Abrams-produced monster film Cloverfield. One one hand, I liked it’s unique take on monster films. It’s far from a simple Godzilla clone and I believe that the hand-held Blair Witch-like cinematography was a smart idea. One the other hand, that same…
Not content in watching a super stripped down version, I skipped the Golden Globes last night. However, I did check the results online late last night. I got 7 out of 14 of my predictions correct, which is down from last year, but still a fair number (50%). My biggest surprise was reading that Atonement…
There Will Be Blood sticks out from the rest of Paul Thomas Anderson’s films for the very fact that it is a period piece and that it has an overall darker mood than his previous films. The films features Daniel Day-Lewis as an oil baron, who is consumed by greed over a 24 year period….
Back in my December movies of the moment column, I listed Walk Hard, Aliens vs Predator: Requiem, and this film as films that I was unlikely to all see. While it’s true that I never managed to see them all in December, it is now January and here I am with the final of those…
