Recent Posts Tagged With 'movie reviews'

• Top 10 Taxi Driver Movies, Part II

  Posted on Thursday April 16th, 2009 at 10:03 in list, lists, movie reviews, taxi, top 10

  Taxi drivers in most films have more or less the screen presence of a coffee table. They are there because the car cannot drive itself and the screenplay calls for a wayward woman to smoke a cigarette and rue how her life has gone down the crapper or...

• The Wrestler: Review

  Posted on Friday April 3rd, 2009 at 10:14 in reviews, movie reviews, wrestling, wrestlers, the wrestler

  There’s a scene in The Wrestler when Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) asks his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood in an unsung strong performance) whose life he has missed not to hate him. “I’m an old broken down piece of meat,” he tells ...

• 10 Unique Implements That Have Killed People in Horror Movies

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 09:21 in list, lists, funny, humor, movies, movie reviews

  Movie audiences have become more sophisticated. It’s pretty difficult to shock, or unclench the folded arms of even the most jaded viewer. Of course, shouting “fire” in a crowded theater, if you can still find one that is, usually does ...

• Oscar Predictions: Weighing in on the Academy Awards

  Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 08:09 in funny, Celebrities, movies, movie reviews

  The Oscars are around the corner and what better time to splice the neighbor’s coaxial cable or invest in a dish than now (And if you opt for the latter, we’re swinging by with a tray of snacks for the next pay-per-view fight), a night when even ...

• DVD Review Penelope *** (out of 5)

  Posted on Friday December 5th, 2008 at 08:04 in reviews, movies, movie reviews, dvd review

  In the infamous Kafkaesque Twilight Zone episode, ‘Eye of the Beholder’ a shadowy group of surgeons and hospital staff huddle around the patient, Janet Tyler, who has just emerged from surgery and whose face is wrapped in bandages. As the...

• Shark Bite Review: Vicky Cristina Barcelona **½ / 5

  Posted on Friday September 5th, 2008 at 07:53 in movie reviews, woody allen

  Shark Bite Review: Vicky Cristina Barcelona **½ / 5 Those of you looking for the old Woody Allen will find an old Woody Allen Uprooting from the Five Boroughs overseas, far from giving him a creative spark he so likely sought, finds Allen revisit...