Archive for the ‘Reviews of movies’ Category
Bottle Rocket
{4.5/5} “One morning, over at Elizabeth’s beach house, she asked me if I’d rather go water skiing or lay out. And I realized that not only did I not want to answer that question, but I never wanted to answer another water-sports question, or see any of these people again for the rest of my […]
Paper Man
{4.5/5} “Does this couch make me look fat?” Richard is a writer — he’s temporarily moved out of the city in order to have a change of scenery for writing his next book. His wife Claire is a doctor, and she comes out on the weekends. Richard has made friends with Abby, a teenager with […]
Citizen Kane
{4.5/5} “That’s all he ever wanted out of life… was love. That’s the tragedy of Charles Foster Kane. You see, he just didn’t have any to give.” Charles was taken away from his mother and father when he was a young boy — on the other hand, he was rich. When he turned 25 and […]
Cargo
{4/5} “Our changes to the planet’s ecosystem caused unforeseen consequences.” In the 23rd century everyone has moved off Earth. The wealthy have moved to Rhea and everyone else lives on space stations. Laura is a doctor — she signs up to work on a cargo ship in order to make enough money to join her […]
Easy A
{4.5/5} “Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80’s movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from ‘Sixteen Candles’ waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because […]
The Princess and the Frog
{4/5} “You sure this is the right blind voodoo lady who lives in the boat in the tree in the bayou?” Tiana works two jobs as a waitress to save up money to open her own restaurant. Finally, she’s able to afford a building — of course, it’s a bit of a fixer-upper. When Prince […]
The Ten Commandments
{4/5} “A city is built of brick, Pharoah. The strong make many, the starving make few. The dead make none.” In order to escape death, when Moses is a baby he’s sent off in a basket down the river. Bithia, the Pharoah’s sister, has no baby and raises Moses as her own son. Moses grows […]
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
{4.5/5} “Pirate of the Year is just… commercialized nonsense. Real pirating isn’t about trophies. It’s about fighting up staircases backwards. It’s about sliding down sails with a knife in your teeth. Beard glossiness!” The Pirate Captain would like to win Pirate of the Year but the other pirate captains have once again managed to plunder […]
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
{4.5/5} “‘You do anything fun Saturday night?’ ‘Well, all the guys in my barbershop quartet are dead. So no, not really.’” When Steve Rogers arrives at his apartment he finds Nick Fury there. Fury implies that the place is bugged and tries to tell him about something important but Fury is shot. Fury hands Steve […]
Chicken Run
{5/5} “‘Think, everyone, think. What haven’t we tried yet?’ ‘We haven’t tried not trying to escape.’ ‘Hmm. That might work.’” The chickens on Tweedy’s farm are forced to lay eggs every day and if they don’t they get their heads chopped off. They keep trying to escape, but the Tweedys and their dogs catch them […]