Director: Tony Gilroy Starring: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz The Bourne series has been a very nice alternative over the years to the Bond franchise. While Bond was down in the dumps with Pierce Brosnan at the helm, Matt Damon took the role for the spy thriller and took over a genre that was struggling. The … Continue reading »
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Drive
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston I have a feeling Drive is going to be one of those movies that I consider a favorite of my own, yet those around me will be saying, “really? Why?” Audiences are going to go into this film expecting an action packed experience, but … Continue reading »
Mid-Year Movie Awards
I realized after the 4th of July weekend that 6 months of the year had gone by and a bunch of people were coming out with lists for their top films of the year so far (you know, those halfway through the year lists that people feel they need to release just because everyone else … Continue reading »
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Director: Michael Bay Starring: A bunch of robots and Shia LaBeouf The words to describe the brilliance of the third installment of the Transformers franchise… I’m sorry. I couldn’t get through one sentence of what a positive review of this movie would look like without recognizing that it would be an absolute joke. To say … Continue reading »
Drive Angry
Director: Patrick Lussier Starring: Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard Let me see if I can describe this movie. Nicolas cage is a dead man who has escaped from hell (yes, the hell that Satan runs). Hell is apparently a prison in which Satan is the warden. Nicolas Cage’s inspiration for escaping from hell is that a … Continue reading »
Star Trek (Revisited)
Director: J.J. Abrams Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg From everything that I’ve seen, J.J. Abrams has not really done anything that I’ve disliked. I don’t even see much in his producing credits that I truly didn’t care for. His directorial debut in feature films was Mission Impossible III, which … Continue reading »
