Incoming: A Single Man

The debut film of fashion designer Tom Ford, A Single Man, which is an adaptation of a 1964 novel of the same name by author Chistopher Isherwood (I had no idea of that) has been garnering tons of praise and even if the film doesn’t connect on an emotional level–which I don’t think is the case here–it sure will look [...]

Quality Assessment: Gentlemen Broncos

I saw a screening of this last Wednesday but 1) I’ve been too busy to talk about it, and 2) this movie wasn’t good at all that I thought about not even bothering…..and yet, I couldn’t quite fully dismiss it, because it really think itself all that and some stale popcorn.

It isn’t that it has [...]

Incoming: Black Dynamite

I saw the trailer for this wild romp of blaxploitation yesterday while watching “Bronson” and I just knew I had to share the trailer with y’all cuz this shit is funny!!

Quality Assessment: Bronson

Holy.Shit.
I’m not too familiar with the story of Michael Peterson aka Charlie Bronson, Britain’s most famous and dangerous inmate, who is as of this writing still incarcerated and has not been giving a release date.  The movie as a whole doesn’t fully hold because it doesn’t show us any other aspect of Charlie Bronson other than [...]

Quality Assessment: Paranormal Activity vs The Blair Witch Project

(I’m a huge, HUGE horror fan, it is my favorite genre, so base on the fact that I’ve been looking forward to this one and the title of this post, you know Ima talk at length here so bear with me)
 
Taking is cue from THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY works overtime to ensnare you in that [...]

New York Film Festival 09

The 2009 edition of the new york film festival at Lincoln Center, (you can get all the info you need here) is currently underway and though this is exciting news, I’m completely annoyed by it and therefore I have to vent because that’s what blogs were created for.

I know some a-hole is going to comment [...]

Quality Assessment: Bright Star

Bright Star is in a way just another British period piece of love and class and therefore struggle, but unlike the other 99 percent of British period pieces, on this one, it is the male who doesn’t have any money not the woman.  Not that she is rich though not poor either.

It is mostly just [...]

Summer Movies Season Wrap Up

Well, the summer movies season has come to an end and what a ride we had!
There were so many good things: The Hangover, Star Trek, UP!, Moon, Bruno, The Hurt Locker… there were some middle of the road things that were mindlessly entertaining and yet I forgot all about them the moment I left the theater: [...]

Quality Assessment: Taking Woodstock

Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock is good in that small independent film kinda of way but at the same time, it doesn’t really tells us anything new about woodstock or shows us anything we haven’t seen before.  In fact, it doesn’t even show us the actual festival per se; we get glimpses but we are mostly [...]