Movie Review: Red State
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Movie Review
SXSW 2011 is underway and contributor George Hickman is filing his reports each day as the festival and its several world premiere movie events and panels continue. In 2009, director Duncan Jones gave gaggles of geeks flaming nerdboners with his debut feature “Moon,” a film that dragged science fiction kicking and screaming back into the […]
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Eric Melin’s review of the new movie “Red Riding Hood” from KTKA-49.
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For the straightforward action pic “Battle: Los Angeles,” director Jonathan Liebesman focuses on a worldwide alien invasion, but he does a couple specific things that make it bearable, if not a complete retread. First: He tells the story from the point of view of one Marine Staff Sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his new platoon as […]
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Here’s my review of the new Matt Damon movie “The Adjustment Bureau” from KTKA-49. Philip K. Dick, the science fiction author whose works were the basis for “Blade Runner” and “Minority Report,” is famous for his far-out concepts. Movie adaptations of his work usually take the premise from Dick and little else because his ideas […]
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Here’s my review of the new DVD/Blu-ray releases “Due Date” and “The Tillman Story” from KTKA-49. Out on DVD and Blu-ray this week is “Due Date,” a pretty terrible road trip comedy starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis. It’s supposed to fall in the classic ‘odd couple’ mode with an uptight businessman and a […]
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Review of the new Farrelly brothers comedy “Hall Pass” with Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis.
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Liam Neeson stars as Dr. Martin Harris, a scientist from the United States who arrives in Germany with his wife (January Jones) for a medical conference, only to find his very life stolen from him in the space of four days. After a car accident leaves him in a coma, Martin awakes days later to […]
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Last week, I posted this link on Facebook, describing the Academy Awards’ position on whether to let a monkey-masked man accept an Oscar statue, should he win: About Banksy: “It would not be dignified for the Academy to have somebody come up wearing a monkey’s head.” Oscars Want Elusive Banksy to Stay Out of Sight […]
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This movie review was originally aired on KTKA-49. “Just Go With It” is a remake of a 1969 movie that won Goldie Hawn an Oscar, which was based itself on a Broadway play, which was based itself on a French play. You wouldn’t know it from looking at the end result. The new movie stars […]
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Here’s my review of “The Company Men” from KTKA-49. We’re at least a good two years into the current economic recession—and the newly Oscar nominated documentary “Inside Job” does an incredible job of fleshing out the reasons for it and the people responsible. But that’s not the movie I’m reviewing today. This week, “The Company […]
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As you may be able to tell from its title, the new comedy “I Love You Phillip Morris” is a love story. It’s about infatuation, obsession, and the insane lengths people will go to when they are deep in love’s sway. It just so happens that the lovers in question are two gay men who […]
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Despite being too young to even remember the 80s, I have to admit to feeling nostalgic about it a lot of the time. Cinematically, there wasn’t a lot going on, but its seemingly inexhaustible supply of “One man, one mission,” forgettable action movies is something I occasionally long for nowadays, if only because we never […]
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Here’s my review of “No Strings Attached” from KTKA-49. The state of the romantic comedy these days in Hollywood is not good. Multiplexes are commonly filled with lowest-common denominator, high-concept romcoms with attractive actors who are going through the tired motions of the most banal and predictable plots around. That’s why it was such a […]
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Here’s my review of “The Green Hornet” from KTKA-49. Early in “The Green Hornet,” Seth Rogen says to Jay Chou, his soon-to-be-partner-in-crimefighting—and I’m paraphrasing—“You know what the stupid thing about superheroes is? They announce to everybody that they’re good guys and all the villains need to do is start killing innocent people and they’ve got […]
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