End of Watch (review)
David Ayer has pulled off an all-new LAPD cop action drama with a vibrancy so electric that the screen seems to sing from the film’s opening moments, and keeps ringing long after the film ends.
Michael Pena
End of Watch (trailer)
I am very much looking forward to this, and fully expect it to be the same sort of brutal, depressing shit about rampant corruption and general awfulness that David Ayer always brings.
Tower Heist movie review: Bastille on the Hudson
For a film critic, there are few pleasures more satisfying than ripping into a bad movie. But one of those few is discovering that a film that you were expecting to hate — a movie that you had no doubts whatsoever would turn out to be utterly awful — turns out to be wonderful.
Tower Heist (trailer)
It’s funny cuz the black guy is the criminal. It’s funny cuz the Hispanic guy is stupid…
Battle: Los Angeles (review)
Battle: Los Angeles may be about invasion, but it’s not about aliens: it’s about us. This isn’t science fiction: It’s a bleak fantasy about karma being a bitch. It’s about collective cultural guilt. Looked at from that angle, it’s fascinating.
Observe and Report (review)
‘I thought this was gonna be funny,’ says a character at one vital point in *Observe and Report,* ‘but it’s actually kinda sad.’ Bingo!
DVDs and screeners received: ‘Dennis Potter: 3 to Remember,’ ‘Holly,’ more
I receive more DVDs in the mail than I can possibly ever review, and here I run them down once a week. This are all Region 1, though I’ll note if they’re available in Region 2, too. (And as an aside to all those British DVD publicists out there, I’m totally open to checking out … more…
