By Brad White Run Time: 2hr. 28 min. Grade: A+ Unless you’ve been under a rock—or on a six week Wild Turkey bender like Mel Gibson—you’ve undoubtedly seen the Inception trailer. You recognize Leonardo DiCaprio. You get that it’s the director who made The Dark Knight, or as a I call it, the Batman movie [...]
Movie Grade C+ So I didn’t do a trailer review for the movie Predators. Of course not. It wasn’t necessary to do one for the GREATEST (non-animated) MOVIE this summer. Especially when I was going to see it anyway. All this movie needs to do to make me happy is have Topher Grace [...]
Contributing Writer: Nick Frantz Grade: C If Nicolas Cage had a good accountant, I’m convinced he could have been one of the great actors of his era. Remember his Best Actor-winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas? The sheer fun of dual roles in both Face/Off and Adaptation? Even recently, he was great in Kick-Ass. Sadly, [...]
Dinner for Schmucks Why is a single dinner party with a bunch of losers a movie? If I wanted to watch a Steve Carell movie that wasn’t funny, couldn’t I just re-watch Dan in Real Life? Already this summer we had the release of Jonah Hex for the legions of fans demanding a Wild Wild [...]
Do you like Tom Cruise? That is the only question you need ask yourself when deciding to see this film. In Knight & Day, and yes his last name is Knight and–oddly enough–her last name is not Day, Tom Cruise is a spy on the lamb, relentlessly attempting to protect a never ending battery and [...]
Running Diary: 30 Days of Night What does a 27 year-old male with good prospects do on a sunny Saturday afternoon? He goes on a picnic with his significant other, balances his checkbook with his latest paycheck, or maybe even goes house hunting. Which is why I went to see a movie by myself. Don’t [...]
Seen the commercials for Burn After Reading? The film seems like it would be genuinely funny. Although, what’s with the dead body sticking out of the closet? That’s the corpse of what could have been. Before I get specific, I should probably lay down my barometer for Coen brothers movies. In my opinion they have [...]
In one of my earliest posts here in Loompaville, I stated that Brokeback Mountain was the single most depressing film I’d ever seen. And it has valiantly held that title for several years. Through I Am Legend’s cheap murder of the dog. It held up. As I watched Mr. Plainview mentally destroy his adopted son [...]
