In a scene early on in Guy Ritchie’s reboot of Sherlock Holmes, Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel McAdams start generating on-screen chemistry, only to be interrupted by a dog fart. The canine flatulence in question aptly sums up Sherlock Holmes. Devoid of mystery, entertainment or wit, Ritchie has delivered a true stinker. Read more »
Crazy Heart, the new romantic drama starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal, shares its protagonists modesty. Tracking the small humiliations of washed-up country-blues star Bad Blake (Bridges), Crazy Heart is a film grounded in music and tone. Read more »
I could’nt resist the List! And could’nt recall very many memorable comedies? Help me out guys. Anyways, here is my 10 best movies of the decade list:
12. Zodiac (USA, 2007)
I first heard of Paprika through Io9’s list of the 20 Best Science-Fiction films of the Decade (it came in #13). Mining some of the same territory as other recent journeys of the brain (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Avatar), Paprika is serious and surreal anime at its best. Read more »
Man did he write some winners and he did f/x for Star Wars. The horror and science fiction fans of the universe will miss you, good sir.
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In Avatar, director James Cameron takes the war against the modern viewer’s attention span nuclear. Can Internet and cable television compete with 3-D exploding dragons and a nauseatingly detailed alien jungle? The answer is no (or not yet). Avatar is the most visually overwhelming film of all time. Unfortunately, it succeeds in being a movie event without overly worrying about being a movie. Read more »
In The Box, writer/director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) conjures another period sci-fi philosophical mystery (a genre he has invented and laid claim to). Set in the 70’s and populated by aliens and a Satre-quoting Cameron Diaz, the Box fails as a movie but succeeds as a mind-fuck. Read more »
From the previews, Law Abiding Citizen looked horrible. Really, truly bad. Perhaps the nothing-to-lose expectations of a person attending a movie they expect to be atrocious helped, but I liked it. Somehow, both Jamie Foxx and Gerald Butler seem restrained, and the film chugs along, fueled by its B-movie moralities and bloody grandiosity. Read more »
The central question at the heart of The Men Who Stare at Goats, the entertaining yet somewhat directionless comedy starring George Clooney and Ewan McGregor, is: what would the Army be like if it were run by Lebowski? Unfortunately, although they milk this joke successfully, they never quite answer the question. Read more »
Is The Princess Bride the greatest family fantasy of the 1980s? I certainly think so. The epitome of a Hollywood style that has literally disappeared during the past twenty years, Rob Reiner’s 1987 adventure classic stands as a testament to the period during which it was created. Read more »
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