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 [...]

R.I.P: Brittany Murphy

This truly came as a shock. I wasn’t a huge fan of hers but I enjoyed several of her performances, specially on Freeway and Clueless.  Bless her soul.

Why a Movie Turns You Off When It Shouldn’t?

I’ve been asking myself that question lately. 
There are plenty of movies I don’t go see at the theaters or even bother to check out when they play on TV because I know–and it is clear–that they are nothing but crap or to be a bit more sensible: not my type or for me.  The Saw [...]

(Incoming) January: Dumping Ground for Bad Movies or Hollywood’s New Home For Hits?

Something rather strange happened a few weeks ago when I saw The Box–which I still think is a very creepy, interesting, solid movie no matter how many people supposedly hated it. Hopefully it would find its audience on DVD.  But I digress….
After 15 minutes of preview after preview one thing glaringly stood out to me [...]

Roger Rabbit Sequel….with Performance Capture? Is There Anything Sacred To Hollywood Anymore??

Yes, Robert Zemeckis directed 1988’s classic.. let’s go ahead and call it what it is: masterpiece Who Framed Roger Rabbit but does that means he has any right to mess with it by doing a sequel? With performance capture ala Polar Express (horrible movie!!), Beowulf (laughable!!) and countles other crap he’s been responsible for lately??  I [...]

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: [...]

The New York City Project

TEN DAYS.
TEN MORE DAYS ‘TIL NYC.
IT’S TIME TO START THE COUNTDOWN.
I think is hilarious that the first thing that always pops up in my head whenever I think of NYC (which has been always/all the time this past few weeks) is the scene in Gangs of New York where Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill “the butcher” Cutting [...]

Quality Assessment: Moon

Moon was not completely, but a bit different from what I was expecting it to be, and now, how glad am I for it.

I love Sam Rockwell.  He is so good at playing characters and completely underrated, and in Moon he gives one of his best performances ever.  As you already know by the trailer, he’s [...]