Archive for the ‘Movie Reviews’ Category

What I’m Watching at Home: Punch-Drunk Love

Viewed on December 22, 2012 on Netflix Streaming This was my third time watching this movie, and it’s still just as entertaining as the first time. Easily my favorite Adam Sandler movie. He’s played the troubled simpleton before, but never so interestingly. I’m actually invested in this character and would want to follow his life […]

What I’m Watching at Home: Sound of My Voice

Viewed on December 15, 2012 on Netflix DVD Such an interesting premise. A couple successfully manages to get themselves ingratiated with a cult, their goal to create a documentary that exposes the leader as a fraud. The cult is led by a twenty-something year old Maggie (played by Brit Marling). Maggie claims to be from the […]

Life of Pi

I’m going to try to be even-keeled here. I want to start this review with thunderous exclamations of how much I loved Life of Pi, about what a magical feat of story-telling this is,  about how beautifully it was filmed, about how much it touched me. I don’t want to look for flaws. I don’t want […]

Wreck-It Ralph

When you were a kid and you’d go to the local arcade, did you ever stop to wonder what the video game characters did after you finished playing the game? Probably not, unless of course you were a particularly imaginative kid. You probably just assumed they did nothing because they weren’t thinking beings possessing their […]

The Bay (Just a Small Review)

What’s it about? On July 4th 2009, the small bayside town of Claridge, MD experienced a strange epidemic. People suddenly began to break out in painful boils and rashes. Their bodies were being eating from the inside out. The town’s hospital quickly filled up with sick, screaming people. The only doctor there didn’t know what he was […]

The Sessions

You might not know the story of Mark O’Brien. I didn’t. He was a poet and a journalist, and as a child he had polio. It left him unable to move any part of his body below the neck. He still had feeling in all of his body; his muscles just didn’t work properly, which […]

End of Watch

Now this is what I’m talking about: an action(ish) movie with well-developed characters you can actually care about and whose well-being through the end is not a given. If you’ve read some of my reviews for action movies, you know that one of the biggest issues I have with them is how predictable they are. […]