Posts Tagged ‘Brad Pitt’
Film Review – Ocean’s 8
The biggest flaw of Ocean’s 8 (2018) is the title. Not only is it numerically confused as a sequel to the Ocean’s trilogy (consisting of Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, and Ocean’s Thirteen), but it also has to carry the burden of being yet another spin off of…
READ MOREFilm Review – Allied
Here is yet another instance where trailers and advertisements promise one film and what we get is something else. We’re lead to believe that Robert Zemeckis’ Allied (2016) is a taut thriller about betrayals and lies. What we actually get is a sweeping love story…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Big Short
In addition to being an ardent film lover, I really enjoy financial scandals. (Reading about them, not committing them.) I have an MBA from the University of Washington, and most of our accounting class time was spent talking about people misbehaving with numbers. I graduated…
READ MOREAudacious Dames – Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise
Thelma & Louise, both the film and its titular characters, were jinxed at the Oscars in 1992, winning only one well-deserved award for Best Writing for a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen by Callie Khouri. Its parched vistas, greasy spoons, and asphalt veins of…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Age of Adaline
On a distant planet far off in the galaxy, an alien life form got a tickle under its nose and sneezed. This sneeze caused a ripple effect throughout the universe, eventually shifting the Earth’s rotational axis by .0002 degrees. The global change forced the Earth’s…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Counselor
In an early scene of The Counselor, Cormac McCarthy’s first work written directly for the screen, a diamond dealer informs the Counselor that the diamond he’s chosen for his fiancée is a cautionary stone. He might as well be describing the film he’s in, and…
READ MOREDVD Rundown 9-17-2013 – Video Podcast #276
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for September 17th, 2013. In this episode they discuss World War Z, The Bling Ring, Bates Motel and Slacker.
READ MOREFilm Review – World War Z
Zombies, zombies, zombies. Everywhere we turn nowadays, the undead are rising from the grave to feast on the flesh of the living. Movies, TV, books, live action zombie walks: mindless people-eaters are shuffling their way towards the unsuspecting living to eat their brains or convert…
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