movie reviews
Movie Review: "Rendition" (2007)
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect “disappears” on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US. Continue →
Movie Review: "King Of California" (2007)
An unstable dad gets out of a mental institution and promptly tries to convince his daughter that there’s Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia…and that she should help him find it. Continue →
Movie Review: 'Into the Wild' (2007)
The story of Christopher McCandless is one of amazement and inspiration, while at the same time being horribly tragic. Continue →
Last year I read Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, in anticipation of watching the film. I wrote a review about it if you want to know if it was worth reading and what the book was all about, but I can tell you right now that it was awesome and definitely something to add to your collection. Continue →
Movie Review: 'In Bruges' (2008)
“This place is rubbish.” Continue →
That’s one of the countless insults uttered by Colin Farrell against the poor town of Bruges in the violent crime comedy, In Bruges. Continue →
Two assassins, Ray (Farrell) and Ken (played by Brenden Gleeson), get stuck in the town of Bruges, in Belgium, as they await further instructions from their ringleader, Harry, who is played fantastically by Ralph Fiennes Continue →
Movie Review: 'The Bank Job' (2008)
With all the high-tech crime capers and bank robbery movies that we’ve seen lately, it was utterly refreshing to see one set in the 1970s when all you had were walkie-talkies and jackhammers. The Bank Job stars Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows, plus a very good supporting cast, in a film based on a true [...] Continue →
Movie Review: 'Saw IV' (2007)
Ever since the first Saw movie totally caught me off-guard by how much I liked it, I’ve been a unwilling fan of the series and therefore have watched every one of the three sequels. The original Saw had such a shocking twist at the end that I never saw coming. Since then, the sequels have [...] Continue →
Movie Review: '2 Days in Paris' (2007)
I enjoy talky movies most of the time, especially when done very well and the characters involved are engaging with the dialog and with each other. A talky movie to me is defined as a film taking place mostly with dialog as the main element of the plot. 2 Days in Paris is a comedy [...] Continue →
AML Movie Review: “Stardust” (2007)
Stardust definitely does not sound like a movie that would be one I longed to see, but I heard good things about it, even comparisons to The Princess Bride, so of course I had to check it out. A side note about Direct TV and their HD offerings, they are now coming out with more [...] Continue →
AML DVD Review: “King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters” (2007)
Video games and their players constitute an entire subculture that you’d have no clue about if you weren’t part of it or if there weren’t films like King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. The King of Kong is a documentary filmed over almost three years after Ed Cunningham, the producer of the movie, met [...] Continue →
AML Movie Review: “3:10 to Yuma” (2007)
I’ve always been a big fan of westerns, but only if they are GOOD westerns. Recently I enjoyed Open Range with Kevin Costner and Seraphim Falls starring Pierce Brosnan. It took awhile, but I was finally able to see 3:10 to Yuma, a movie I had heard great things about last year and was definitely [...] Continue →