Hot Tub Time Machine is a mid-life crisis movie. Three friends and a nephew go on a ski excursion when Lou attempts suicide to cheer him up. The dilapidated resort town of their youthful conquests is deserted and run down. As the situation degenerates into a train wreck situation, they find the hot tub in [...]
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Kick Ass definitely blew me away (but not all in a good way). It takes the classic story of a nerd transforming himself into a super hero and deconstructs it in a modern, information technology-driven society where reality and real life can be blurred by personas created online. Our hero, to be known as “Kick [...]
The Hangover is a must see comedy. Four guys throwing a bachelor party in Vegas wake up with a massive hangover, no recollection of what happened, and lose the groom. The opening scene alone was priceless. The movie had all the stock cliches of a Vegas movie but the chemistry of the actors and the [...]
In any literature class they teach you the importance of establishing conflict. Conflict is what drives a plot and makes it interesting. The problem is that in the 21st century it’s hard to define conflict. Morality is a lot more loose and hard to define. Even in super-hero movies, the line between good and bad [...]
Michael Jackson’s death was definitely an unexpected shocker. Even though his life has long degraded into a media circus of scandal and freakish behavior, his final demise ironically allowed us to see the man behind the mask for his true artistry and talent. Michael Jackson created the MTV era. He was the first artist to [...]
I really can’t say much for this film other than the fact that it was an excellent vehicle for Will Smith to make a major breakthrough as an actor and to be taken seriously for his talents. His physical transformation in itself is an awe-inspiring feat. However, the film itself leaves much to be desired. [...]
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a Woody Allen film from his Scarlett Johansson phase. Two American girls visit Barcelona. Vicky is a practical girl engaged to a successful businessman and finishing her masters degree in Catalan identity. Cristina is aspiring visual artist that just finished filming a short that will get her no where. In Barcelona [...]
The film opens in an Indian interrogation room. Jamal who’s on the verge of becoming an instant millionaire is being tortured by the police on the suspicion of cheating the popular TV show, “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”. “How can a slumdog like you know the answers?” asks the inspector to which he spits [...]
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button tells the story of a man born old and aging backwards, living a peculiar life of hardship that gradually blossoms into success and youth but also loss of his loves. One thing that stands out is the amazing computer graphics for their under-stated effects on the story (mainly allowing [...]
A girl from the streets with attitude problems and troubles at home gets one shot at making things good by enrolling in a prestigious arts academy on the strength of her potential as a dancer. The school’s most popular hunk and scion of the sponsoring family takes an interest in the girl as the girl [...]