Plane movie review: ‘Sully,’ but make it badass
Entertainingly ridiculous? Or ridiculously entertaining? The slick of wild nonsense slapped over an uninspired undercoat is enjoyable enough while you’re onboard, and then it’s instantly forgettable.
Tony Goldwyn
All I Wish (aka A Little Something for Your Birthday) movie review: sassy birthday
It’s too predictable and too disingenuous about the realities of what it means to be an “older” woman. But Sharon Stone is totally charming.
The Belko Experiment movie review: team-killing exercise
A one-note scenario that never ups the ante on itself, and never even bothers to use its extreme situation to send up office politics or corporate policies.
Divergent review: girls just wanna do everything
No, it’s not wildly different than other science fiction, hero’s journey, and adventure movies. Sometimes we call such stories archetypal. Mythic, even.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Mar 09-15 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
terrible movie quotes: ‘The Mechanic’
“I’ve put a price on your head so big, when you look in the mirror, your reflection is gonna wanna shoot you in the face.” –Dean (Tony Goldwyn)
The Mechanic (review)
The auteur who gave us Con Air, The General’s Daughter, and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is back, extending his cinema terrible of violent, unthinking nihilism and brutal, pointless action. Oh, and misogyny for fun. Hoorah!
trailer break: ‘The Mechanic’
Oo oo oo, Tony Goldwyn is in this. That will make enduring the thuggishness that is Jason Statham slightly more tolerable.
a few thoughts on ‘The Walking Dead’: “Days Gone Bye”
So, I’m not really seeing so much that’s new in this The Walking Dead thing yet. Except that it’s pretty gory not only for TV but also for some zombie movies I’ve see. Seems to be lots of lingering on head shots and blood spurting out in slow motion. Monty Python’s Sam Peckinpah would be proud.
The Last House on the Left (review)
Actually worse than all the other horror flicks of recent vintage that assume that the audience is a vicarious sexual sadist.
