The moment the trailer for Seven Psychopaths was released, I could see the problem: the film had no idea what its plot was. It looked like a jumble of discordant threads held together by the single unifying fact that it was scripted by In Bruges’s [...]
Apparently this is a remake although I’ll confess to not having seen the original. So lovers of the ‘original’ ought to steer clear of my review because there is bound to be a fair amount of iconoclasm. The story is set somewhere nearLas Vegas, in [...]
Comedies today are terrible. I’ve seen dire comedy after dire comedy. Occasionally it’s been broken up by something like Bridesmaids (which was ok but about as deserving of its unbelievable acclaim as Marisa Tomei was of her Oscar) and films like Win Win and Cedar [...]
I see the primary point of these reviews as providing a conclusion as to whether or not I would recommend the movie to you, the potential viewer. With The Way Back, Peter Weir’s latest film, I was left wondering who, if anyone, would have enjoyed [...]
