Critical Movie Critic: General Disdain | Published on: January 29, 2012
Filed under: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 0 Comments
There are several factoids I learned after watching The Wicker Tree, the 39 years in the making sequel to cult favorite “The Wicker Man.” For one, nuclear power plants make all men who drink or bathe in its cooling source sterile (although on the flip side it also grants them the gift of being able [...]
Critical Movie Critic: Howard Schumann | Published on: January 29, 2012
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Foreign | 0 Comments
Our society has often been called “death-denying,” one in which grief is suppressed and the inevitability of death ignored. Author John Fowles said, “Death’s rather like a certain kind of lecturer. You don’t really hear what is being said until you’re in the first row.” The children at a primary school in Montreal are definitely [...]
Critical Movie Critic: sasori | Published on: January 28, 2012
Filed under: Comedy, Trailer | 0 Comments
Unable to sit idly by as the country degenerates into worthless, crass, reality show shit, one man decides to take a stand. Actually that’s one man and one teenage girl. Together in the dark comedy God Bless America, they zag and zig across this great land of ours killing off the selfish, self righteous and [...]
Critical Movie Critic: Mariusz Zubrowski | Published on: January 28, 2012
Filed under: Crime, Thriller | 0 Comments
Recently, as per my friend’s request, I skimmed through a snuff film he’d found online. “You know, the fact that I don’t bat an eye at this, but have to hold back tears during ASPCA infomercials is sick in and of itself.” “Congratulations, you’ve been desensitized to human violence,” he shot back. It’s true, like [...]
Critical Movie Critic: sasori | Published on: January 26, 2012
Filed under: Action/Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Trailer | 0 Comments
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is back in his latest kid friendly flick, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. He takes on the role of buff stepfather to Sean, the teenaged kid involved in the “Journey to the Center of the Earth” adventure. (Brendan Fraser couldn’t be bothered to make the sequel apparently). This adventure takes the [...]
Critical Movie Critic: Mark Zhuravsky | Published on: January 26, 2012
Filed under: Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 2 Comments
Joe Carnahan’s The Grey falls in line with an intimate, frequently grueling genre of films that serve as potent reminders of why humankind builds cities. Pitting eternally grizzled survivor Liam Neeson and a dwindling crew of compatriots against a vicious, unrelenting nature, the film gets off to a strong start before mooring itself in thinly [...]