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Stand Up for Pain in the Oblivion of Pines
I watch so many movies I often get swept up in the effort to write about all of them in an effective and coherent way. Monday to Wednesday and I’m already behind, by Friday I’ll be right back here scrambling. This time I’m micro-reviewing, a handful of celluloid with the films Oblivion, Pain & Gain, Stand Up Guys and The Place Beyond The Pines. Continue reading
Posted in Blu-ray, Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves
Tagged above the line, al pacino, Alan Arkin, blue valentine, Bradley Cooper, Brian De Palma, bucket list, christopher walken, crazy stupid love, Derek Cianfrance, Die Hard, Joseph Ruben, Le Mecanisme de cineaste du jour, limitless, made for TV forgettable, michael bay, Mikael Salomon, miss it, moon, Movie Mechanic, oblivion, Pain & Gain, Paul Verhoeven, practical movie reviews, rory dean, ryan gosling, see it, silent running, stand up guys, the place beyond the pines, tom cruise, Wolfgang Petersen
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Crazy, Stupid Love (2011) Blu-ray
Crazy, Stupid, Love is decisively straight forward and surprisingly well-mannered for a film about the turbulence of people in love and the collateral damage of romance. That’s where the filmmakers ultimately succeed, gathered around familiar heartache with their characters, sharing the collective bumps and stumbles of Crazy, Stupid, Love. Continue reading
Posted in Blu-ray, Blu-ray Elite for Warner Home Video, Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, On DVD
Tagged above the line, analeigh tipton, Blu-ray Elite for Warner Home Video, comedy, crazy, dan fogelman, drama, emma stone, hopeless romantics, jonah bobo, julianne moore, love, practical movie review, rory dean, ryan gosling, steve carell, stupid, Warner Bros. Entertainment
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Ides Of March (2011)
George Clooney writes, directs and stars in this fine and impressive ensemble of talent with some of the brightest stars in front of the camera and behind it. Ides Of March is well made and character driven and for the most part the film accomplishes its goal of poking the seething underbelly of political corruption with impressive results from a fine ensemble cast with George Clooney at the reins. Continue reading
Drive (2011)
Calculated and precise, flawed, a vision with cojones and Albert Brooks kills someone. You maybe don’t even realize how connected you are until the first scene ends, the first glimpse into this world holds your every second, turns you into the perfect hamster waiting at the cage door of your life for the next meal of gerbil bullets. Refn holds the bag and you start to salivate and then it dawns on you that you’re OK with waiting as long as Refn makes every movie for the rest of your life. Continue reading
Posted in Movie I've Seen, Movie Makers & Shakers, Movies You Should or Should Not See, On DVD
Tagged above the line, Albert Brooks, carey mulligan, dissave pictures, drive, fuel action, Hossein Amini, James Sallis, man and gun, movies of 2011, nicolas winding refn, omniscient god, practical movie reviews, Ron Perlman, rory dean, ryan gosling
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All Good Things (2010)
All Good things meanders far too long on the mundane, struggles to elevate ordinary and loses track of the role of engaging characters with redemptive pursuits. Further to that point, the story stumble-steps like snapshots, like memory without the benefit of caring about abrupt beginnings or endings; the film seems to stop so quickly that it too shutters without so much as a suggestion of finality. Continue reading
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