Quality Assessment: Sherlock Holmes

Whereas Rob Marshall has become a bona fide *one trick pony* with the release of his musical Nine, Guy Ritchie has been happily living up to that term his whole directorial career. From his debut Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, to Snatch, to Revolver to Rock&Rolla, all of his movies have been a sort [...]

Quality Assessment: Nine

With Nine, Rob Marshall proves that you shouldn’t try to recreate your past triumphs because it just won’t work.  There’s a reason lightning doesn’t strike the same spot twice, but he tried anyhow and in doing so makes Nine look like nothing more than a Chicago wannabe or at the very least, the leftovers.

Ignoring the [...]

Video of the Week: “Somewhere Out There” from Fievel: An American Tail

Because my childhood called and requested it.

Quality Assessment: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Amazing! Wild! Awesome!  Believe the hype, Fantastic Mr. Fox truly is, well, Fantastic!

I can’t believe I almost didn’t see it–I can be a total idiot sometimes–on the grounds that I’m not a fan of George Clooney. He irritates me, which is something Up In The Air already has against it for when and if I [...]

Quality Assessment: The Blind Side

Sandra Bullock is indeed having an amazing year at the movies, and us the audience are enjoying it in return.
She could have played this on a silly note or gone the big/bold/cartoonish way but she doesn’t. She keeps the character grounded, honest and (for what I’ve heard) pretty close to the real life Leigh Anne Tuohy. It truly is a pleasure [...]

Quality Assessment: Ninja Assassin

There’s really not much to say about this movie. You know it doesn’t make much sense, there’s really no story or much acting require. But sweet Satan! if the amount of blood: buckets and buckets of stylized splashes and squirts of red heaven… doesn’t more than makes up for it all!  Anyone going to see [...]

Quality Assessment: The Road

3 weeks without watching a single movie was the equivalent of torture. Thankfully I put an end to it by finally seeing The Road today as a bit of a 3 months in NY anniversary. (such a short time and yet it still feels like I’ve been here for years now)
As you know, I’ve been dying to [...]

Quality Assessment: 2012

For the record, the world isn’t going to end on 21 December 2012.  Something is definitely going to happen, something major that’s going to reverberate through the years, sort of like the butterfly effect.  It will not be the end of the world, not quite anyhow.  There’s going to be an *event* that’s going to [...]

Quality Assessment: Precious: Base on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire.

Precious: Base on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire is this year’s Doubt: A perfectly good drama (at times right down brutal) with very good acting that unfortunately keeps getting “interrupted” by its director’s penchant for pandering, metaphoric images.  Will it get nominated for a best picture oscar? It certainly seems likely, specially now with ten spaces to [...]