by Erik Schlittner | Jul 25, 2014 | Reviews |
I had been looking forward to this movie for months and I have to admit I’m a little disappointed. First off, things move slooow. I know John LeCarré’s books are all about procedure and details and characters, but I want a little suspense now and then. Outside of one...
by Erik Schlittner | Jul 22, 2014 | Reviews |
This movie should have been a lot more fun than The Purge (2013) but somehow wasn’t. The plot of both movies (lifted intact from Star Trek episode “Return of the Archons”) is the same: in the not-too-distant future, smoothly running society has set aside one day a...
by Erik Schlittner | Jul 18, 2014 | Reviews |
Richard Linklater’s latest is an odd duck of a movie. Spanning 12 years in the life of a Texas family, and filmed with the same cast for those years, Boyhood feels less like a movie and more like life itself. It meanders aimlessly with seemingly fresh starts that...
by Erik Schlittner | Jul 14, 2014 | Reviews |
I didn’t like this movie. There. I said it. Everyone else in the world liked this movie, but I did not. I thought it was earnest and joyless and pretended to be about Serious Issues while not having anything to say about them. Short version: monkeys live in Marin,...
by Erik Schlittner | Jul 10, 2014 | Reviews |
This aggressively crappy rom-com starts out promisingly enough. Keira Knightley is dragged onstage by her folky friend. She sings a song. Then she leaves the stage convinced that she is a failure. But Mark Ruffalo, record company guy, is in the audience and loves the...
by Erik Schlittner | Jul 8, 2014 | Reviews |
You won’t believe how egregiously awful Dinesh D’Souza’s America is. Or maybe you will – the walking pustule known as D’Souza has basically resurrected the 2012 Republican Convention in movie form: the golden hued montages of cornfields and purple mountains majesty,...
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