Date Night (2010) Rated PG-13 Starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey Runtime – 88 minutes Even if a movie does what it intends to do, certain genres can only be so good. Date Night definitely meets the romantic comedy expectations (though it’s no When Harry Met Sally) and the addition of the action-movie twist makes [...]
Up in the Air (2009/2010) Rated R George Clooney Directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, The Office) Runtime – 1hr. 48 minutes Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 44 wins & 52 nominations The old DVD circuit has been pretty dry the past few months with releases that I had missed in the theater, and was glad [...]
From the same guy who did the 70-minute Phantom Menace movie review that took me 3 weeks to finish (but pretty worth it) now attacks Avatar in much less time. He’s a little weird, but for those who weren’t enthralled by the movie’s plot of message beating, it’s worth a watch. Maybe skim through part [...]
(500) Days of Summer Rated PG-13 Runtime: 95 minutes Directed by Marc Webb Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel Nominated for 2010 Golden Globe Best Picture – Comedy or Musical This semi-indie romantic comedy starts right off with the narrator saying “This is a story of boy meets girl. But you should know up front, [...]
I thought I’d do some quick reviews of movies that are available on demand for Netflix. The pickins are a little slim, but if you’re like me you forget to mail back the movies you just watched for about 3 weeks. I think I just mailed back a movie that I had gotten when it [...]
For almost every holiday or season, I have a movie tradition that sort of kicks it off. One of the few I hadn’t found one for was winter itself. This winter, in particular, I was needing some themed escapism while my face regained feeling. Christmas pretty much takes all the good movies for winter, so [...]
Avatar (Rated PG-13) Directed by James Cameron Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez Runtime – 2 hours 32 minutes Now on its way past $1 billion dollars worldwide, I finally caught Avatar 3D in a nearly packed theater on a Wednesday night. This is one of the few films that, more than 3 weeks into [...]
Funny People (2009) on DVD/Blu-Ray Rated R Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen Directed by Judd Apatow 2 hours 6 minutes Funny people, in a vacuum, is a decent movie. But taking into account what they were going for, how much of the film was really good, and who was in it, it ends up falling in [...]
Star Trek (PG-13) 2009 Run time: 2 hours 3 minutes Since I missed most of them this summer, I’ve been catching up on the big moneymakers on Blu-Ray the past few weeks. So far with Transformers 2 and G.I. Joe, I’ve been questioning that decision. Fortunately, Star Trek was next on the list and I [...]
Yes, they did team up/fight each other, no this post isn’t about that. However, combining the star ratings together of these two would actually give it almost a passable score. Transformers Revenge of the Fallen (Transformers 2) and G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra graced the screens this summer, and both are available now on DVD. [...]