Archive for January, 2010
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
An Education
An Education is the story of growing up in the early 1960s, a simpler time before drugs, cell phones and the Beatles. It portrays the conflicts of a young girl confronted with choices that she is not equipped to make and how an education, both scholarly and in the rudiments of life, changes her and [...]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
The Road
Depressing? A little. Inconsistent? Yes. Stupid? Very. Viggo, ya should have boogied earlier or joined your wife. As far as post-apocalyptic movies go, I would give this a C. I could see Kevin Costner in this movie in Viggo’s place. When Robert Duvall’s character shows up, I didn’t recognize him but thought to myself, that [...]
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Precious
I was overwhelmed by Precious. There have been many movies about the poor kid who gets a good school teacher to mentor him or her and goes on a to wonderous future. Akeela and the Bee ran along those lines in a middle income, family friendly home. Precious, however, has a documentary feel that is [...]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Fantastic Mr Fox
Fantastic Mr Fox is … well … fantastic. It is in a different animation style than most animated movies this days, definitely not a Pixar type, but there are times when the animals go wild! and Looney Toons shock scenes pop out of nowhere. There are at least three distinct styles of animation, maybe more, [...]
