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 [...]

Quality Assessment: The Box

A total creepfest.
This movie, in my humble opinion, is garnering a handful of bad reviews and it is completely unfair.

I may be on the minority but I though The Box was entertaining, interesting, highly creepy, funny at times, unusual for sure, and it keeps you guessing all the way to the end.  The concept may [...]

Quality Assessment: A Christmas Carol

Well, it took Robert Zemeckis 3 tries but he finally found a story that could utilize his obsession with performance capture technique in a good way.  Now, I’m not saying that the computer rendering of the movie is amazing in any way, shape or form, no.  What I’m saying is that his (and Disney’s, lest not [...]

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 [...]

Quality Assessment: Astro Boy

Fellow blogger Pace, over at About Writing had already warned me about this not living up to mine, and his for that matter, childhood memories of the beloved anime but I had to see it for myself…. and now I know.
I know that Hollywood has once again taken something closed to my heart and basically [...]