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Adventureland - Film Review

Posted on19. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.

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It’s the summer of 1987, and James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg), an uptight comparative literature grad from Oberlin, can’t wait to embark on his dream tour of Europe with his best friend. But when his parents renege on the trip’s subsidization, James has little choice but to get a job, and spend his last summer before [...]

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Fast and Furious - Film Review

Posted on14. Apr, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist Fast & Furious recalls a time in movie-going history when audiences had yet to determine the A-list action stars from their lesser competition – and because of that, it’s intensely hard to dislike. In the 1980s and early ‘90s, there were all sorts of aspiring heroes trying to win your hearts while [...]

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I Love You, Man - Film Review

Posted on30. Mar, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon He wrote and directed 1998′s Safe Men, which played at the Sundance Film Festival, but it was filmmaker John Hamburg’s rewrite of the 2000 mega-hit Meet the Parents, and subsequent work with Ben Stiller, which brought him fame and industry clout, and has since formed the thematic spine of his work. That [...]

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Duplicity - Film Review

Posted on21. Mar, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon Duplicity, the second film behind the camera from Michael Clayton writer-director Tony Gilroy, would have you believe it’s a spry little battle-of-the-sexes con movie — a two-handed theatrical holdover for the same audiences that have flocked to Ocean’s Eleven and its sequels, until the schedules of its Hollywood heavyweights can be coordinated to crank out another installment. It [...]

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Watchmen - Film Review

Posted on25. Feb, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist, photos courtesy of Warner Brothers Director Zack Snyder’s Watchmen is an easy film to admire, but a less easy one to enjoy. An adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel series, the film is thoughtful without being didactic, glossy without being slick, and ultimately, cohesive without being entirely compelling; in other [...]

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Coraline - Film Review

Posted on09. Feb, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon Based on the 2002 children’s book by Neil Gaiman, and adapted and directed by Henry Selick – who also helmed The Nightmare Before Christmas, a movie many people erroneously credit to Tim Burton – Coraline is a multi-dimensional show-stopper, the first stop-motion animated feature conceived and photographed in stereoscopic 3-D. If last [...]

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Gomorrah - Film Review

Posted on09. Feb, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist Not unlike when Timur Bekmambetov’s Night Watch garnered acclaim by combining the broader conventions of science fiction films with the specificity of Russian culture, Gomorrah aspires to transcend its Italian setting (not to mention language barrier) by fusing it to the familiar iconography of Hollywood crime movies. Co-written and directed by Matteo [...]

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Fanboys - Film Review

Posted on09. Feb, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon The cinematic equivalent of Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy – a project delayed so long that many began to doubt its actual existence – Fanboys is about a group of passionate Star Wars geeks who set off on a road trip to try to see the latest film in the series before [...]

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The International - Film Review

Posted on09. Feb, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon The Bourne Identity was released in the summer of 2002, and owing to both the changes in the real world post-September 11 as well as the commercial success of that film and its subsequent sequels, since then every spy thriller worth its salt has had to ground itself in grayer times. Even [...]

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Slumdog Millionaire Movie Review

Posted on20. Dec, 2008 by Administrator.

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Words By Brent Simon From Shallow Grave and Trainspotting to Millions and 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle’s filmography is littered with many different types of movies, but they’re all marked by a similar intensity and forward-leaning energy. It’s somewhat strangely appropriate, then, that for his latest film, the bristling, underclass love story Slumdog Millionaire, the [...]

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