Archive for May, 2009
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Monsters vs Aliens
Here is a movie with something for just about everybody. Decent animation, funny characters, lots of things to keep every age group amused. Take a scene from just about any alien or monster movie from Mothra to Star Wars, include ET and Close Encounters (my favorite part of the movie), add a touch of disco [...]
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Rant on subtitles
I started out enjoying, if hat’s the right word, Gomorrah. There seemed to be a good building of several story lines, some good characters, and I liked the gritty photography. Why did I leave 37 minutes in to the film? White on white subtitles!
I like foreign films and I have no problem reading a movie. [...]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Sunshine Cleaning
What a difference a week makes! Two movies, similar themes - family owned cleaning business, marital infidelity, suicide - and there the similarities end. Sunshine Cleaning is about people who may be at the bottom, or close to it, who make life happen. The characters in this movie are flawed, vibrant, plucky, and likable. Instead [...]
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Two Lovers
I was not disappointed in Two Lovers, probably because I had been warned that the Joaquin Phoenix character should have just drowned in the opening scene and been done with it. Well, I wouldn’t have wished that on him but he and most of the characters were pretty shallow and I could gain no sympathy [...]
