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Sicko
Posted on November 12, 2007
Filed Under Independent Films, Serina's Reviews | 2 Comments
The latest Michael Moore installment does not disappoint. The average American has a lot to learn from this movie. The health care in our country is appalling and the insurance companies are fully to blame by my measure of it all.
As I am married to a British citizen I already knew much of what was portrayed in this well laid out film. However there is a lot to be said about the other countries that I was at least partially unaware of. I like to think a fair amount of U.S. citizens know just how bad our health care system has become but when compared to country’s that you just out right expect to have a lesser system in place such as Cuba only to find they are a few levels ABOVE us?!? There was something *I* personally learned. Read more
Michael Clayton
Posted on November 7, 2007
Filed Under Box Office Reviews, Michael's Reviews | 1 Comment
I was in the mood to see if Hollywood was still putting out something interesting as far as law thrillers went. To my surprise, they didn’t do too bad keeping things fresh. This movie stars George Clooney (I don’t think I have to tell you any of his previous movies), Tilda Swinton (Chronicles of Narnia), and Tom Wilkinson (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Clayton (Clooney) plays a fixer; a person who understands the law and in a clinch can bring on the perfect lawyer for any case for his firms clientele.
Unfortunately for him his personal life needs fixing as well. To make matters worse, one of his firms long lasting cases just suffered from one of the attorneys (Wilkinson) breakdown. Through the course of this movie, Michael is forced to not only try to keep Wilkinson together, but keep defense attorney Karen Crowder (Swinton) from gaining the upper hand, and saving his own personal life from going down in flames. Read more
Everything’s Gone Green
Posted on November 5, 2007
Filed Under Independent Films, Michael's Reviews | 3 Comments
“Everything’s Gone Green” is a 2007 independent Canadian film by Douglas Coupland. I must say that visually, he used his landscape well. The settings of this film were done nicely, however the writing was way off.
Our story starts off with our main character Ryan (Paulo Costanzo, “40 Days and 40 Nights”) who in the span of one day loses his girlfriend, his apartment, his job, and the chance at a lucky lottery ticket. When calling in the ticket he finds out it is the wrong numbers but the right time for his call. He gets a job doing stories for a lottery winner newspaper and it is from here that he meets his new life, there are many choices that he must make that begin to make him question his morals, and the morals of the people around him. Read more
Captivitiy
Posted on October 30, 2007
Filed Under Tom's Reviews | 2 Comments
When it came to reviewing Hostel 2, i had so much to say, but coming to write a review of Captivity, the morning after, i am left wondering exactly what it was i ended up doing last night.
Three things spring to mind, exploding dog, acid shower and an eyeball smoothie. Co-incidally these three things all are gore. This is the best, and only gore in the film. Leaving me unsure as to whether anything else actually happened, or if the storyline was so weak I forgot it the second i went to sleep.
The plot left alot to be desired. Pretty model gets captured. Tortured. Then escapes by killing the killer and a few cops. There is a twist, as there always seems to be, however, it was un-original, definately predictable to fans of the genre… Read more
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
Posted on October 28, 2007
Filed Under New Release DVD, Tom's Reviews | 1 Comment
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End is the long coming sequel to Rob Schmidt’s “people trapped in the woods and getting eaten by mutants” horror. Joe Lynch’s directorial debut Wrong Turn 2 had every opportunity to be something appalling and I’m pleased to say it was everything I wanted. A good start to this man’s career.
Wrong Turn 2 is by no means ground-breaking. Don’t expect some brand-new polished horror concept that no director has ever thought of before. Fraid not. It follows that tried and tested and tried some more, concept of mutant in-breds in woods eating unfortunate passers by. Deep down we all secretly love it!.. Read more
Another Hostel Part 2 Review (Sorry!)
Posted on October 26, 2007
Filed Under Tom's Reviews | 2 Comments
Compared to Paradise Lost, Hostel Part 2 is a masterpiece. Whoever even thought to compare that film with the original deserves to be shot. Hostel Part 2 does exactly what you would expect. Delivering uber lashings of gore. Possibly more so than the original, which came as quite a shock. The rest of the film however, was predictable.
In true Tarantino style the violence in this film is the most hard hitting i have seen of any film. Even if technically it isn’t a true Tarantino production. Don’t expect the odd spray of blood here and there to let you know where you stand, no chance, the first killing is as cringe-worthy as every other death to follow, and far more outlandish than anything I remember in the original. Naked women bathing in blood, scythes, battle axes, decapitations, a bolt-cutter taken to a man’s genitalia, a women’s face getting angle-grinded, This film does it all with buckets of fake blood. Read more
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