Archive for the ‘Reviews of movies’ Category
The Brothers Bloom
{4.5/5} “He writes his cons the way dead Russians write novels — with thematic arcs and embedded symbolism.” Stephen and Bloom are brothers. They have been con men since they were kids and, along with their associate Bang Bang, they’re very successful at it. But Bloom wants out — he wants to live an unscripted life. […]
Quick Change
{4.5/5} “‘Is that our plane?’ ‘No, if it were our plane it would be crashing.’” Grimm robs a bank dressed as a clown — he has a clever scheme to get away with the money without anyone knowing who he is. The problem is, once he gets away from the bank he has to make […]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
{3.5/5} “Home is now behind you. The world is ahead.” Gandalf the wizard invites Bilbo the hobbit on an adventure. At first Bilbo doesn’t want to go — he’s happy where he is, safe in the Shire with his books. But a group of dwarves are planning to retake their home, Erebor — the catch […]
Wreck-It Ralph
{4.5/5} “I’m bad, and that’s good. I will never be good, and that’s not bad. There’s no one I’d rather be then me.” Ralph is the bad guy in a video game called “Fix-It Felix, Jr.” Lately he’s been wondering if he really has to be bad all the time and why no one wants […]
Skyfall
{5/5} “What did you expect, an exploding pen?” A hard drive is stolen from MI6 that has on it a list of agents embedded in terrorist organizations around the world. James Bond chased the person who stole the hard drive and is wrestling with him on top of a train when another agent has them […]
Grosse Pointe Blank
{5/5} “They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they’ve all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? ‘I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How’ve you been?’” Martin is a professional killer. Initially […]
Before Sunrise
{4/5} “Think of it like this: jump ahead, ten, twenty years, okay, and you’re married. Only your marriage doesn’t have that same energy that it used to have, y’know. You start to blame your husband. You start to think about all those guys you’ve met in your life and what might have happened if you’d […]
Mystic River
{5/5} “The reality is we’re still 11 year old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we’d escaped.” When Jimmy, Dave, and Sean were kids they wrote their names in wet cement. An official-looking guy caught them and scolded them — he then told Dave to get in his […]
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
{5/5} “I have a macaroni on my head!” Flint is an inventor, but his inventions don’t work out the way he originally intended. One day he invents a machine that can turn water into food. The machine is accidentally sent into the clouds, and it starts raining food. The town embraces their new weather phenomenon, […]
Mary and Max
{5/5} “When I was young, I invented an invisible friend called Mr. Ravioli. My psychiatrist says I don’t need him anymore, so he just sits in the corner and reads.” Mary is an eight-year-old girl in Australia who picks Max’s name out of a New York phone book and writes him a letter. Mary has a […]