Archive for the ‘Reviews of movies’ Category
The Equalizer
{4.5/5} “I’ve done some bad things in my life, Nicolai… Things I’m not proud of. I promised someone I love very much that I would never go back to being that person… But for you, I’ll make an exception.” The Equalizer, released in 2014 Robert works at a big box store but he used to […]
The Book of Life
{4.5/5} “Did I mention I also studied fencing?” The Book of Life, released in 2014 Manolo wants to be a musician but his father wants him to be a bullfighter in the family tradition. Joaquin is a soldier, like his father who died fighting a fearsome bandit. Manola and Joaquin both like Maria, who’s been away […]
Gone Girl
{5/5} “When I think of my wife, I always think of the back of her head. I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brain, trying to get answers. The primal questions of a marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?” Gone […]
I Origins
{4.5/5} “When the big bang happened, all the atoms in the universe, they were all smashed together into one little dot that exploded outward. So my atoms and your atoms were certainly together then, and, who knows, probably smashed together several times in the last 13.7 billion years. So my atoms have known your atoms […]
Olympus Has Fallen
{4/5} “There is a saying in Korea. Saying something a hundred times is not as good as living it once.” Olympus Has Fallen, released in 2013 When a South Korean delegation arrives at the White House, North Korean infiltrators help their friends outside attack from the air and the ground. The President is kidnapped within […]
White Bird in a Blizzard
{4/5} “Because I never saw my mother again, she remains in absence to me. An empty space. An invisible, half remembered ghost. So even now I catch myself thinking that I’m gonna run into her some day. Like I’ll be at a stop light, and look over at the car next to me and there […]
Tracks
{4.5/5} “Animal lovers, especially female ones, are often accused of being neurotic and unable to relate to other human beings. More often than not, those pointing the finger have never had a pet. It seems to me the universe gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of […]
Angels & Demons
{4.5/5} Angels & Demons, released in 2009 Symbologist Robert Langdon is called to the Vatican, where four cardinals have been kidnapped. The Illuminati say that they’ll kill them one per hour. Then on the fifth hour they’ll destroy the Vatican with a bit of antimatter they’ve stolen from the Large Hadron Collider. Langdon searches a […]
Argo
{4.5/5} “This is the best bad idea we have, sir. By far.” Argo, released in 2012 Enraged Iranians storm the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979. Six Americans escape and end up at the Canadian ambassador’s house. They can’t stay there forever, and they can’t go out into the streets. Tony Mendez of the CIA […]
Patriot Games
{4/5} “I couldn’t just stand there and watch him shoot those people right in front of me. It was… rage. Pure rage… Just made me mad.” Patriot Games, released in 1992 Jack Ryan used to be in the CIA and now he’s a professor. While on vacation in Britain he saves some members of the […]