Reblogged from Film Reviews: 2010 DIRECTOR: David O. Russell NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? MAYBE Unfortunately, it doesn’t take you long before you find yourself making the comparison and thinking to yourself that this film is not Raging Bull (1980). But whether it’s…
Reblogged from Film Reviews: 2010 DIRECTOR: David Fincher May Contain Spoilers! Wow, just isn’t the word for this. Screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin speaking about writing this, claimed that even though it revolved around the creation of Facebook, this wasn’t really about the social network. This was about its troubled creator, Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and his relationships with the…
Reblogged from Film Reviews: 2013 DIRECTOR: J.J. Abrams Contains MASSIVE Spoilers! CINEMA REVIEW Will we be adding this to our collection? YES The 2009 reboot had established the relationship between Kirk (Chris Pine) and Scotty (Simon Pegg) and then ruined it by having a stupid sequence in which Mr. Scott is sucked up into a plumbing system. This is…
Reblogged from Film Reviews: 2012 DIRECTOR: Ryan Johnson Contains MAJOR Spoilers! “This year’s The Matrix”. “Most Exiting film of the year”. Both are quotes from the posters and both are very much overstated in my opinion. But don’t get me wrong, Looper is one of the genre’s most ambitious and bold films that I have…
Reblogged from Film Reviews: 2012 DIRECTOR: Steven Soderberg May Contain Spoilers! Not really what I was expecting. With quotes such as “Hilarious” on the poster and featuring a Matthew McConaughey in a role in which it is perfectly acceptable for him to have his shirt off, this was a much grittier affair that I was expecting. Yes,…
Reblogged from Film Reviews: 1979 – THEATRICAL VERSION 1979/2000 – THE DIRECTOR’S EDITION DIRECTOR: Robert Wise May Contain Spoilers! Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a much maligned entry into the Trek canon, seen as too slow, cold and lacking the heart of the original cult TV series, which had finished a decade earlier. But I feel…
Reblogged from Film Reviews: 2011 DIRECTOR: Joe Johnson May Contain Spoilers! Since Iron Man in 2008, The Avenger’s franchise has been building up momentum and this is the final act before the big one. Captain America, possibly one of the hardest sells in the comic world these days, is in the hands of Joe Johnson.…
