Critical Movie Critic: David Ferguson | Published on: December 30, 2011
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Family | 0 Comments
Director Cameron Crowe has finally emerged from his cocoon — seven years after the abysmal Elizabethtown. Yes, he has had a couple of projects in that time, notably the Pearl Jam documentary, but he has avoided anything related to his dramatic film roots of which produced Say Anything, Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous. With We [...]
Critical Movie Critic: Howard Schumann | Published on: December 29, 2011
Filed under: Drama, War | 4 Comments
In Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, you will not find sexual addictions, murderous cults, criminal sociopaths, not even a single vampire. You will, however, find a compelling story of one boy’s incredible bonding with a high-spirited half-thoroughbred who becomes trapped in the nightmare of the First World War. Based on the 1982 children’s novel by Michael [...]
Critical Movie Critic: Charlie Juhl | Published on: December 28, 2011
Filed under: Action/Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 0 Comments
Even though there are now two films in Guy Ritchie’s vision of the Sherlock Holmes universe (the first aptly titled Sherlock Holmes), I am still getting accustomed to the athletic, street fighting Holmes as opposed to the merely cerebral genius who used to chase suspects by horse and buggy rather than bash their brains out [...]
Critical Movie Critic: Mariusz Zubrowski | Published on: December 24, 2011
Filed under: Drama | 4 Comments
A decade later and 9/11 has become the new “it” thing in Hollywood. Now, much like with homosexuality, movies — particularly late-winter melodramas — dealing with the terrorist attacks have become foolproof investments. As such there was no stopping Stephen Daldry’s latest film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, an adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s eponymous [...]
Critical Movie Critic: sasori | Published on: December 22, 2011
Filed under: Action/Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction, Trailer | 6 Comments
In the hands of an ordinary director, the hype surrounding Prometheus would amount to nothing more than a blip on the radar screen. In the hands of Ridley Scott, the man responsible for one of the best sci-fi horror flicks made (Alien), there is a tsunami of interest. In his latest, he explores the origin [...]
Critical Movie Critic: Mariusz Zubrowski | Published on: December 22, 2011
Filed under: Action/Adventure, Animated | 4 Comments
Georges Prosper Remi, better known by his pen name Hergé, was the revolutionary behind the Adventures of Tintin comic series, which he wrote and illustrated. Known for the meticulous research that went into each chapter, its vivid humanism, political satire and the “ligne claire” art style he used (and pioneered), which utilizes strong lines, cast [...]
