Salt (review)
*Salt* works. As in breathless-nonstop–action-intensity works. Oh, sure, it’s nutty-as-a-fruitcake insane at the same time, but being this hugely entertaining goes a long way toward making you not want to laugh at it.
reviews by genre
Moon movie review: eclipsing the genre
Someday, Rockwell will get his Oscar due, I have no doubt. But I bet that when that day comes, lots of movie lovers will look back and say, “But it should have happened for Moon.”
‘Life on Mars’ blogging: Episode 1
DCI Sam Tyler has an accident in 2005, and wakes up in 1973. Has he fallen down a rabbit hole, or is he following the Yellow Brick Road?
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Ark in Space”
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode unless you don’t care to have it spoiled for you.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (review)
Lo and behold and WTF, here’s adorkable Jay Baruchel getting molested by dancing mops as the literal replication of a 70-year-old cartoon forces its way into a movie where it clashes tonally, interrupts the plot, and just plain makes no sense.
Inception movie review: quantum cinema
My mind is blown. It is. Just not quite as blown as I was expecting it to be.
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (review)
I debated with myself for quite a while: Should I endure *The Human Centipede (First Sequence)*? I knew I wouldn’t be able to unwatch it afterward…
The Greatest (review)
First-time writer-director Shana Feste has made a wise, insightful movie about family, grief, and how awful and how wonderful it is to discover that life goes on after someone you love dies.
Cyrus (review)
Behold mumblecore! It’s just like regular-movie-core, but with hipster cred. Except it’s just more of the same old shit roughed up around the edges…
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “An Unearthly Child”
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode unless you don’t care to have it spoiled for you.
