Category Archives: movie review
Saturday At The Movies: Journey 2: Mysterious Island Is Pure Family Fun
Last week I took my two kids, ages 7 and 9 to see Journey 2: Mysterious Island. I’d heard good things about the film and I think Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is just about perfect at picking roles that play to his strengths. Making the experience even better was the fact that Journey 2 is playing in 3D, and unlike the recent release of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, it was conceptualized and filmed for 3D…and you can tell.
Saturday At The Movies: The 13th Warrior
I love it when a team gets put together.
The ensemble “counting movies” as I like to call them – the ones where a group of characters, one at a time, join forces – are one of my favourite kinds of films. And the best part about those types of flicks is that they can exist in any genre: western, crime, drama, comedy, science fiction or fantasy.
One of my all time favourites is best watched on a lazy Saturday afternoon.
Gentlemen Broncos in Saturday at the Movies
Gentlemen Broncos is one of those awesome sci-fi movies about science fiction that is simply overlooked. The trial of a young unknown author, the plagiarism of his greatest work, good vs. evil, battle stags and yeast wars; YUP. Struggling sci-fi writers, this is a movie dedicated to you.
Like other Hess films (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) Gentlemen Broncos is non-descript, with a weird worn out kitsch character treatment; and this one is really weird – like, weird in a way that will make you afraid to use hand cream.
But if like me, you have ever romanticized the life of a successful writer or struggled to write a story; if you’ve voraciously read yellow TOR paperbacks; if you remain obsessively loyal to the campy origins of sci fi, you’re probably going to love Gentlemen Broncos.
Like this:
Light The Lights – Shannon Watkins On The Return of The Muppets
I’m just going to go ahead and assume you were as big a fan of The Muppet Show as I was when you were a kid. Can you really watch this without singing every word?
Guest Blogger: Movie Minx on Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller’s Tower Heist
A caper comedy with an all-star cast… how could I resist a sneak preview of that?! When I saw the trailers a few months ago, I figured Tower Heist would be something worth renting, but not necessarily worth a full movie-theatre ticket price. Having seen it now, I’m glad I got the big screen effect and full audience environment. I always find a packed theatre of people who are into the movie helps to create a more entertaining and engaging experience.
