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the movies i’ve seen over the past few months have included the oscar-winning (there will be blood & no country for old men, both sprawling and excellent), raspberry-worthy (cloverfield & jumper nearly halved my IQ after viewing) and downright confounding (with a huge battle scene involving armored bears, gypsies, flying witches and sam elliott standing [...]

summer vacation has been nice. i was at the beach for a while, off from work even longer and i have no complaints, except for transformers. that film didn’t even meet my lowered expectations. all i want in a movie about robots fighting is… robots fighting. instead i was subjected to like, ten robots, way [...]

two movies that aren’t good in the strictest sense of the word but i wholeheartedly recommend them:
the protector - i’ve a huge tony jaa fan since the release of ong bak: muay thai warrior and this followup, while not a sequel, ups the ante like crazy. the story is completely ridiculous. jaa plays a boy [...]

monica, nolan, colleen and i finally got to see brick at the voorhees ritz the other night. since seeing the trailer in february, i’d been eagerly anticipating the local release of rian johnson’s ‘indie kids meet the maltese falcon’ debut for a few months now. it did not disappoint. don’t worry, i won’t give anything [...]

the ritz let me down two weeks in a row! i was excited to get out of work and catch the 5:05 matinee of v for vendetta this afternoon. it was more like v for vat the hell was that? an abysmal attempt at portraying a pseudo orwellian future (frankly, equilibrium even did a better [...]

woody allen’s match point wasn’t bad but it’s a complete retread of 1989’s amazing crimes & misdemeanors, to the point that if you’d seen the latter you end up spending 2/3 of the movie looking at your watch and thinking of better uses of your $6.75 because you know how it will end. unlike crimes, [...]