My reviews of movies/TV/trailers
Welcome to another edition of Everyone's a Critic! Today we've got two special reviews from two different genres, one is a Shakespearean modern adaptation, straight from its BERLINALE premiere (thank you Vanessa, you lucky gal!) and the other an Otto Preminger’s acclaimed classic noir (Preminger was nominated for Best Director Oscar for this film). In …
Continue reading Everyone’s a Critic: Reviews of Coriolanus (2011) and Laura (1944)
Counting down to the Oscar this coming Sunday, and the boys from rossvross.com have gone a little Oscar crazy this week. A couple of weeks ago, Ross McG rounded up nine other bloggers (including his partner in crime Ross McD) for a ten-way Best Picture Oscar battle. Because there are so many movies - and because it …
Continue reading Ross vs Ross’ Best Picture Fight Club is Up – The King Speech Review
It's been almost a year since I had an Everyone's a Critic post! I shall try to have this a bit more regular, perhaps more of a quarterly feature on this blog. Special thanks to Mike Beery (check out Mike's contributor page), my Twi-mom friend Marianne Lemire, and FC's frequent guest blogger Ted S. for …
Continue reading EVERYONE’S A CRITIC: Life as We Know It, Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Thin Red Line
It's kind of an uneventful weekend for me... it's just another super cold January day. And when I say cold, I mean face-numbing, ears-hurtin', still-freezing-my-@$$-off-despite-wearing-two-thick-layer-under-my-pants type of subzero temp. It's kinda depressing when someone said on the way home from work that "hey, it's actually 20 degrees 'warmer' than this morning" and it's barely 3 …
Continue reading Weekend Viewing Roundup: House of Flying Daggers, Legend of the Guardians
Happy Friday, everybody! For the first year's edition of Everybody's Chattin', I thought I'd do something different and list ten instead of the usual five. Inspired by Luke @ Cynicritics' It's the Most Wonderful Posts of the Year, and the fact that I find review writing the most challenging part of blogging, I selected 10 …
Continue reading Everybody’s Chattin’: Top ten reviews from other bloggers
There are all kinds of reasons why I anticipate a certain movie. Most of the time, it's the directors/actors involved, sometimes it's the story that grabs you, whether from a trailer or the book a given movie is based on. But sometimes, it's neither. As I've mentioned here, I got curious because my husband's a …
A few of people's tweets on Twitter yesterday read that The Tourist is 'less than the sum of its stars.' Well, that quip definitely has merit because despite the star wattage of the two leads, the movie is never luminous enough to really dazzle. Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp play characters with opposite personalities. Jolie …
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