Archive | May 2012
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Suit up for a The Tailor of Panama review
This week, I’ll be featuring four films that were either directly or indirectly recommended to me by some of my favorite bloggers. Today’s suggestion comes indirectly from 5-Word Movie Reviews. Plot This is one of those films that stayed on the fence between “understandable” and “confusing.” I kind of knew what was going on, but [...]
The Legend of Bagger Vance is the story all about how a golf game got flipped, turned upside down
This week, I’ll be featuring four films that were either directly or indirectly recommended to me by some of my favorite bloggers. Today’s suggestion comes indirectly from Daniel Bean. Plot Flashbacks within a flashback? At least they quit doing that pretty early. This film is too cut and dry. Everything is laid out a little [...]
Tonight, on “I Seriously Have Never Seen This Before” Theater, a Men in Black review
In celebration of what was (so far) TIWAM’s best weekend, as far as views are concerned, here’s a bonus review! Plot They wasted a lot of time setting this movie up, especially with the long, drawn out training sequence that consisted of exactly two parts yet seemed to last 10 minutes. After things finally got [...]
Fight the break of dawn with an Eagle Eye review
This week, I’ll be featuring four films that were either directly or indirectly recommended to me by some of my favorite bloggers. Today’s suggestion comes directly from Cinemaniac. Plot Sadly, this didn’t turn out to be a biographical film about the singer responsible for “Save Tonight.”** There was a little too much reliance on “computers [...]
Get your Frozen Things ready, it’s a My Brother the Pig review!
Plot When the characters arrive in Mexico, things kind of stall for a while, but otherwise, this plot is about as silly and harmless as you’d expect. Characters Scarlett Johansson really gave it her all here…in a movie about a kid who gets turned into a pig. I’m not sure why Eva Mendes’ character needed [...]
Seven Years in Tibet felt like it was filmed in real time
Plot According to the back of the DVD case, this is a “soaring adventure and incredible true story of an Austrian prisoner of war who is transformed by his friendship with the young Dalai Lama.” I guess calling it a “soaring adventure and incredible true story of a guy who wanders around in the mountains [...]
Sorry, no witty title for the The Day My Parents Ran Away review
Plot Have I ever mentioned that the “parents leave home, kids throw a party” is my favorite sitcom scenario? It works in a 30 minute TV show, but not when it’s dragged out to an hour and a half movie. The proof is in the fact that the movie completely ran out of steam after [...]
Little Miss Sunshine is enough to make you take a vow of silence
Plot At 103 minutes, this is one of the shortest movies I’ve seen in a while, but it felt like one of the longest because it wasn’t paced very well and wasn’t quite focused enough. Any movie that can have four alternate endings included on the DVD probably wasn’t much of a story to begin [...]