There’s a website I love called Trailersfromhell.com, in which famous directors showcase their favorite coming attractions previews. Someone like Guillermo Del Toro or John Landis introduces and narrates a two-minute trailer, telling their personal experiences or the back story of the film in question. Sometimes, the filmmakers choose trailers for the likes of Rosemary’s Baby … [Read more...] about MACHETE KILLS New Movie Review
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WORLD WAR Z New Movie Review
A feeling of paranoid nostalgia swept across me during a screening of World War Z. An hour into the movie, which I caught with my family at the Queen Ka’ahumanu Theater, someone in the audience coughed. This is not what you want to hear when the movie in question is a virus-oriented horror movie. It made me remember seeing Outbreak when I was in high school and, at the same … [Read more...] about WORLD WAR Z New Movie Review
PAIN AND GAIN New Movie Review
Michael Bay’s first movie, Bad Boys, opened worldwide in 1995, introducing audiences to his style of flashily frenetic editing and deafening explosions, matched with awesomely moronic storytelling and dialogue. His brand of making louder, thrilling and infinitely stupid action movies was marked from the beginning. Meanwhile, at around the same time, a horrific crime was … [Read more...] about PAIN AND GAIN New Movie Review
Side Effects New Movie Review
Some movies sneak up on you and have ad campaigns that reveal little to nothing about their content. The deceptively simple poster and trailer for The Sixth Sense is a great example of under-selling and a rare case of the studio understanding that, when it comes to promoting a film like that, less is more. A similar approach is being made by Warner Brothers with Side Effects, … [Read more...] about Side Effects New Movie Review
Zero Dark Thirty New Movie Review
Kathryn Bigelow is the only female action movie director, a title that may even sell short how good her movies are, as they aren’t just explosion-filled popcorn movies. She’s been making films for 30 years, constantly about the expectations of gender roles in a male-dominated society and with an intensity uncommon in most American movies. To be utterly frank and even crude, … [Read more...] about Zero Dark Thirty New Movie Review