Posts Tagged ‘movie review’

Disaster Movie… where do I start?
IMDB is a good place. There, it has a rating of 1.5 and it is #2 in the all time BOTTOM 100! And that’s with 24,000 votes (only Battlefield Earth and Epic Movie have more).
So – universally hated, then.
Unfortunately it’s not quite that simple. IMDB votes generally work well as [...]

Choke is a film based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club among many others. So already, you know you’re in for a weird ride.
Directed by first-timer Clark Gregg you could call it a dark comedy, but I found it far more dramatic than comedic. It’s the story of sex-addict Victor Mancini [...]

W. Is a biopic of George W. Bush, directed by Oliver Stone. Right away you’d expect some harsh treatment of the subject because Stone is not known for his soft touch on his other projects (such as JFK and Nixon). But, surprisingly, the movie treats Bush quite respectably.
Stone reputably rushed this film on a budget [...]

After the apparent disaster that was Ang Lee’s take on the Hulk (personally, I quite liked it) Marvel must have thought there was more mileage in the character, so here we have The Incredible Hulk.
And they’ve raised the bar with this one. For a start, their intentions are made clear by casting Ed Norton as [...]

This movie is a satire on America’s involvement in countries such as Iraq, and also the influence of big business on the American government.
But don’t let that bother you – it’s a fun romp!
This stars John Cusack as Brand Hauser, a reluctant assasin. Here, Cusack perfects his downtrodden, angst ridden style. He’s perfect for the [...]

This movie, from the Wachowski Brothers, is perhaps the ultimate live action cartoon. I haven’t seen the early anime on which it is based but I don’t think you need to.
This is beautiful to look at, filmed almost entirely with vivid, primary coloured computer graphics, the only non-cgi elements are the actors themselves. The races [...]