Burn After Reading — movie review

Director: Coen Brothers
Starring: George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton
Genre: Comedy

Sorry this is so late…and we saw it early, too.. nuts. It’s hard for me to write mainstream movie reviews sometimes… especially if I feel lukewarm about the subject. Well, that just gave it all away, didn’t it? Well, [...]

You’ve Been Under a Rock!

Okay, in case you’ve missed out on some juicy celebrity gossip, here’s all you need to know to catch up quick:
Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Biel have the same taste in men. Rock-hard Ryan Reynolds called off his longtime engagement to Alanis Morissette in February and has quickly moved on to Scarlett Johansson who says things [...]

My Tutor Friend movie review

The Korean post-Sassy Girl romantic comedy is something of an oddity when compared to the American romantic comedy. A sort of strange synthesis of Nora Ephron naievete peppered with Three Stooges slapstick violence, more often than not the narrative involves a protagonist (male or female) who suffers a sizeable amount of humiliation or discomfort at [...]

Gantz anime review

Lonely as floating ice… in a good way
I’ve been a fan of anime since roughly 1993. I was in junior high and my gateway drug was AKIRA. I had previously seen American “adult” endeavors such as Heavy Metal, and the French film Light Years, and consequentially had been bored to tears, but this film from [...]

My Sassy Girl (aka Yeopgijeogin Geunyeo) movie review

TWO-AND-A-HALF HOURS OF SASSY
A few of my friends had recommended this film, and it received an 8.0 on IMDB, so I figured maybe it would be worth checking out. Boy was I wrong.
To be honest, I can’t complain about the technical aspects of the film. Shot compostions, lighting, camerawork, and even the performances of the [...]

Intolerable Cruelty — he-said, she-said — movie review — screener!

HE SAID: Ah, this review has been in the cooker for 3 days now. It’s always harder to review a film you’re sort of indifferent to. I’ll tell you straight out that Intolerable Cruelty is a funny film, though not as frenetic and quirky as O Brother Where Art Thou, Raising Arizona, or Barton [...]