This was quite a blockbuster, so I had to check it out. It is based on a novel by Alan Glynn, directed by Neil Burger (and starring Bradley Hotdog) and I must say that the conversion was successful with a few errors that are expected in this type of process. The cast is excellent, although [...]
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Yes, this is a B movie that you could catch any given night on TV, but this is a hell of a B movie. Riding on the eighties vibe and slowly transcending into nineties it uses the best of both decades. In a lead role we have Rutger Hauer, a classical tough, macho man, he [...]
Directed by now famous Brad Anderson this little gem has somehow managed to stay under the radar. It is not pretentious, nor glamorous but more visceral and realistic (as much as you can be with this subject), and if you like that vibe I bet that you will enjoy this movie. It is not based [...]
Created from a fake trailer that you have seen in Grindhouse package, this movie was a bit of a disappointment. Actually, it was made only because the trailer was so popular on youtube and Danny was pestering Rodriguez constantly to make it. So I was expecting a bit more content, but what we got was [...]
After seeing Julias Eyes I decided to check out the first Guillem Morales movie El Habitante Incierto, and it was an amazing experience. It is really rare to see such an original and interesting movie, especially nowadays, and I doubt that any remake could achieve the atmosphere of the original. Everything is perfectly logical or [...]
Based on a Carl Sagan novel this movie is pure perfection, even Matthew McConaughey was really good in his role as a man of cloth (yeah right). Robert Zemeckis showed that after Forrest Gump he can still make great serious movies. With relatively big budget this movie could afford awesome special effects, that survived the [...]
Another Nicholas Cage movie… We are now used to seeing him in crappy movies, but I must say that I quite liked this one. It was a classical return to the seventies revenge flicks with that grindhouse vibe going on, much like Tarantino/Rodriguez cooperation Grindhouse. The violence is over-the-top, suited to 3D needs, so you [...]
Based on a exciting life of Danny Greene, this movie is something that i liked very much. Director was Jonathan Hensleigh who was involved in many great action and thriller movies, and it came as no surprise that this movie would be such a badass thrill. I guess macho stories are always something that audiences [...]
As soon as I saw that Guillermo del Toro was attached somehow to this project I knew that it is going to be good. He produced this movie and Guillem Morales (The Uncertain Guest) wrote and directed it with a very noticeable European vibe. So do not expect another Pan’s Labyrinth but something with a [...]
Although this movie is marketed as Clive Barker’s The Plague, I doubt that Clive was significantly involved. I guess he sat down one day and wrote a short story that was supposed to be developed by the director and the rest of the crew (according to producers they wrote the story themselves and the company [...]
Based on a story that was published in Playboy in 1957 (the following year it was turned into a movie The Fly starring magnificent Vincent Price), this movie is a remake of the 1958 version. With David Cronenberg as director this movie turned into something more experimental than people were expecting. This also shows the [...]
Well, after quite gloomy movie An American Crime, lets move on to something more cheerful. Gnomeo & Juliet is another flick featuring modernized stories that was written a long time ago ( I would like to forget the first 15 minutes of Gulliver’s Travels, but the movie is so awful that its really hard). So [...]
I must have missed this movie in 2007, but I do not know how. Maybe I was actually afraid to check it out, since it is a bit difficult to watch. But that difficulty comes from the horrible story of abuse, torture, neglect and many more things that happen, now even in greater numbers ( [...]
Here`s a bit older movie (well not that old…), but with a good story and nice acting. Directed by Gregory Jacobs and with some big players involved (George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh) it starts out pretty lame, but I guess that was the intention of the writer and director. It is really nice to see this [...]
And here is the big movie from 2010, I checked it out recently and wanted to see it for a second time, to write a better and more balanced review. The hype that this movie produced is similar to Black Swan nowadays, and I think that all those reviews are written by people still under [...]
Another good movie from Clint Eastwood, who could have thought that Dirty Harry would be such a great director. Although, if you compare this movie to the rest of his, you could notice the decline in quality, but than again you can`t make great movies all the time. This time he tried to tackle several [...]
And here we have another movie with Father-Son issues(in a bigger extent then in The Rite). With a director that is most known for his documentaries (and lets not forget The Last King of Scotland and State of Play), I guess that a historical subject of this movie was a right move. I liked the [...]
After the sudden revival of the Exorcist movies in the nineties, the madness continues, producing crappier and crappier movies. I do not know why, but I have to check them out, at least those with some potential. When I saw Anthony Hopkins attached to this project I remember thinking to myself if Anthony fucks it [...]
First of all if you are willing to see a movie called Hobo with a Shotgun, you know what you are expecting to see. Exactly that. This movie was created from a trailer for Grindhouse [2007] by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, just like Machete. And just like Machete this is an Grindhouse, Exploitation flick [...]
Steve Martin in a R rated movie, is it possible? Well, in this 2001 dark-noir comedy it is. Accompanied by excellent musec by Danny Elfman, he managed to steer this movie into something that definitely deserves a viewing. If for nothing else then for its originality and a pretty zany subject. It is a rare [...]