The American
Grade: C- (Rent it)
Review: If you like a boring George Clooney traveling to a Italian village, being paranoiac, and doing nothing, this is your movie. I didn't mind the good looking Italian actress. Overall I was disappointed in this adaptation.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
The Other Guys (2010)
The Other Guys
Grade: C (Rent it)
Review: A mediocre comedy. Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg do a good job having fun with their detective roles. Nothing groundbreaking but it has enough laughs to justify a rent. There is a serious activist message during credits.
Grade: C (Rent it)
Review: A mediocre comedy. Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg do a good job having fun with their detective roles. Nothing groundbreaking but it has enough laughs to justify a rent. There is a serious activist message during credits.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
The Social Network (2010)
The Social Network
Grade: A (Watch it)
Review: This is one of the best movies of the past few years and it will be a serious Oscar contender. Movie does a great job of capturing mundane legal depositions of multiple challenges to Facebook ownership, and mixes them with the story of Facebook creation. A must see movie.
Grade: A (Watch it)
Review: This is one of the best movies of the past few years and it will be a serious Oscar contender. Movie does a great job of capturing mundane legal depositions of multiple challenges to Facebook ownership, and mixes them with the story of Facebook creation. A must see movie.
Machete (2010)
Machete
Grade: B+ (Watch it)
Review: A kick-ass anti-hero movie. Great cast and Robert Rodriguez having fun with brutal violence and nudity without a meaning (that includes an iPhone coming out of a human cavity) makes this a crazy ride fun to watch.
Grade: B+ (Watch it)
Review: A kick-ass anti-hero movie. Great cast and Robert Rodriguez having fun with brutal violence and nudity without a meaning (that includes an iPhone coming out of a human cavity) makes this a crazy ride fun to watch.
South of the Border (2010)
South of the Border
Grade: C+ (Rent it)
Review: One sided portrayal of some of the south American leaders; nevertheless interesting and worth watching.
Grade: C+ (Rent it)
Review: One sided portrayal of some of the south American leaders; nevertheless interesting and worth watching.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Grade: C+ (Rent it)
Review: The sequel to the cult film Wall Street unfortunately doesn't deliver. First Shia LaBeouf was a poor choice to cast for Wall St power player. Movie attempts to mix the story of Gordon Gekko with the biggest Wall St bailout by (aka robbing of) taxpayers during the 2007/08 financial crisis. Neither is done very well and soft heartened Gordon Gekko is not that compelling.
Grade: C+ (Rent it)
Review: The sequel to the cult film Wall Street unfortunately doesn't deliver. First Shia LaBeouf was a poor choice to cast for Wall St power player. Movie attempts to mix the story of Gordon Gekko with the biggest Wall St bailout by (aka robbing of) taxpayers during the 2007/08 financial crisis. Neither is done very well and soft heartened Gordon Gekko is not that compelling.
The Special Relationship (2010)
The Special Relationship
Grade: A- (Watch it)
Review: Excellent dramatization of relationship between two of the most important progressive leaders of the western world Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. Both leaders reformed their own party, successfully led their respective country from the center, and got re-elected by a landslide. They both realized the left and right politics are outdated concepts that don't have a real meaning to post-cold war contemporary people. In the international affairs they where the leaders defending human rights. Movie is a little harsher on Tony Blair, at points presenting him - unfairly - as willing to do anything to advance his political career and legacy.
Grade: A- (Watch it)
Review: Excellent dramatization of relationship between two of the most important progressive leaders of the western world Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. Both leaders reformed their own party, successfully led their respective country from the center, and got re-elected by a landslide. They both realized the left and right politics are outdated concepts that don't have a real meaning to post-cold war contemporary people. In the international affairs they where the leaders defending human rights. Movie is a little harsher on Tony Blair, at points presenting him - unfairly - as willing to do anything to advance his political career and legacy.
The Town (2010)
The Town
Grade: B (Watch it)
Review: Decent crime drama. Good cast and acting, good story and directing. I think it is time to forgive Ben Affleck for Gili.
Grade: B (Watch it)
Review: Decent crime drama. Good cast and acting, good story and directing. I think it is time to forgive Ben Affleck for Gili.
Get Him to the Greek (2010)
Get Him to the Greek
Grade: B- (Watch it)
Review: Funny comedy dealing with showbiz and record publishing. Russell Brand shines and basically carries this movie.
Grade: B- (Watch it)
Review: Funny comedy dealing with showbiz and record publishing. Russell Brand shines and basically carries this movie.
Ondine (2010)
Ondine
Grade: B (Watch it)
Review: Very well executed life drama of divorced fisherman. Movie starts as a cute fantasy and ends as a thriller. I enjoined it.
Grade: B (Watch it)
Review: Very well executed life drama of divorced fisherman. Movie starts as a cute fantasy and ends as a thriller. I enjoined it.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Man som hatar kvinnor) (2010)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Grade: C (Rent it)
Review: This is way overrated by critics. Good cast, relatively good story (sometimes slow) but it is worth a rent.
Grade: C (Rent it)
Review: This is way overrated by critics. Good cast, relatively good story (sometimes slow) but it is worth a rent.
Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010)
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Grade: A- (Watch it)
Review: An excellent expose of corruption that is still going rampant in our political system. Movie explores GOP operative and lobbyist Jack Abramoff from his student days until his well publicized demise that brought down disgraced GOP majority leader - and dancer - Tom Delay. Movie shows how corruption pushed legislation encouraging sweatshops and human trafficking that forced employees to have abortions in the Northern Mariana Islands (so much for pro-life stand). During his days of lobbying operations related to Internet Gambling and Indian Casinos it is fascinating how Jack's operation abused the good will of religious groups and prayed on the gullibility of family values voter.
Grade: A- (Watch it)
Review: An excellent expose of corruption that is still going rampant in our political system. Movie explores GOP operative and lobbyist Jack Abramoff from his student days until his well publicized demise that brought down disgraced GOP majority leader - and dancer - Tom Delay. Movie shows how corruption pushed legislation encouraging sweatshops and human trafficking that forced employees to have abortions in the Northern Mariana Islands (so much for pro-life stand). During his days of lobbying operations related to Internet Gambling and Indian Casinos it is fascinating how Jack's operation abused the good will of religious groups and prayed on the gullibility of family values voter.
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