Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Of all the positives that Alice yielded, the pacing was tops as it started, spanned and ended in very good time. My viewing was done in IMAX 3D but it only reinforced how well Avatar was done to take advantage of the technology. Alice does not need 3D to work, being a colorful, bright and beautiful movie that incorporated a lot of contrastingly dark landscapes to the bright animation. The 3D was a bit of a bonus on top of all this but had I seen it without I would not have felt as if I missed anything. Still it ...
Brooklyn’s Finest
Brooklyn’s Finest is a hardcore drama detailing the lives of three unconnected policemen of differing positions that eventually end up in the same place. The lives of these men lead them to a place of desperation, depression and anger where death is a welcome escape to the lives they live. Director Antoine Fuqua, the man behind the scenes in Training Day brings us back to this familiar ground of dirty police officers and enterprising ghetto gangsters. The effort is led by three brilliant actors who all played their roles beautifully as Tango (Don Cheadle), Eddie (Richard Gere) and Sal (Ethan ...
Shutter Island
After being bombarded by the trailer to Shutter Island for months now I was elated at the chance of watching it and putting the whole thing behind me. Not because I expected it to be bad… hell it has Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Sir Ben Kingsley, I just wanted the trailers to finally go away. Shutter Island ended up being nothing like the trailers suggested, it was a journey through a series of dark hallways leading to a typical conclusion. The journey however splits off somewhere near the end, leaving you pleasantly surprised as well as remorseful at your ...
The Wolfman (2010)
"Terrible things Lawrence, you've done terrible things" I am not typically a fan of remakes and new school takes to old school stories, but in cases like The Wolfman you have to keep an open-mind. You absolutely must see this if you are a horror/gore fan as Director Joe Johnston has given us a reason to fear the hairy monster once again. Benicio Del Toro is a perfect fit for the role of Lawrence Talbot and Anthony Hopkins steals the show with his clever lines, timely delivery and creepy visage. But it isn't the actors that will make you see this, ...
From Paris with Love
A beautiful movie in terms of cinematography, the shots shown in between the explosions and gunfire are absolutely gorgeous but sadly the rest of this movie falls short of setting the bar on anything. If there was a cookie cutter method to creating action movie, From Paris With Love is the result of it. All it seems to take is a shallow story, a super-human badass , a semi-normal sidekick in tow and a few hot chicks to deliver the sex. Mix in a host of bad guys with horrible aim and make sure lots of things blow up to ...
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