Published by The Reviewer 4 hours, 53 minutes ago
in The Reviewer.
The South By Southwest festival starts tomorrow, and The-reviewer.net will be there watching as many movies as we can bringing you all the reviews and anything else that will be worth talking about. Monkeyjenn will be helping me catch you up on all the movie goodness at South By Southwest. We will be writing the reviews as soon as we can after the movies, hopefully most will come out minutes after we saw the movie. However some might not make it due to schedule clashes.
You can check out my schedule here right now to see what is going to be coming starting with Kick-Ass tomorrow at 7! Be sure to check back often for the most up to date reviews from South By Southwest.
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#SXSW,
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Published by The Reviewer 6 days, 15 hours ago
in Drama.
One Sentence: Wesley Snipes is back.
Rated: R
Running Time: 133 Minutes
Release Date: 05-Mar-2010
Nudity: A whole lot of boobs, too many to count.
I can understand how some of you might not be too interested in seeing Alice In Wonderland this weekend, so you get the choice of going to see Brooklyn's Finest. A movie directed by acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua. This is one of your gritty cop drama's. It deals with the lives of Brooklyn cops, and what they go through everyday on the streets of Brooklyn.
Brooklyn's Finest takes a dark look into police life, and paints an amazing picture of it. A lot of times I feel these movies are pushing a lot on the viewer, forcing an agenda, an opinion or just making everything seem so over the top. Brooklyn's Finest makes everything so real. Everything in the movie feels real, feels like it belongs and makes sense to the story in the end. It has been a long time since I liked a dark cop drama as much as this one.
Don Cheadle, Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Wesley Snipes were all amazing in this movie. I think that this movie relied a lot on the acting, as it dealt so much with these characters and all 4 of these guys carried their own weight and really made this movie come together. I think this is a better movie than Training Day, another movie by the director. So if you are looking for something heaving than Alice this weekend, then I would highly recommend Brooklyn's Finest.
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Drama
Published by The Reviewer 6 days, 16 hours ago
in Family.
One Sentence: There is a reason I chose The Red Queen poster.
Rated: PG
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Release Date: 05-Mar-2010
Nudity: None
This could have been a total disaster. We all remember the Planet Of The Apes remake. Alice In Wonderland is one of those movies, the ones you just don't mess with. You don't change it, regardless of the original subject matter. You just do not mess with Disney's Animated Alice In Wonderland. So when Disney puts out a movie called Alice In Wonderland, that is not animated, and directed by Tim Burton, what is everyone supposed to think? It is a risky move for sure, but luckily I think that this Alice and that Alice can exist together happily.
I don't know if you would consider this a sequel, or a different story, or what you will think about it when you come out of the theater, but I think you will feel it didn't ruin any of your old fun times in Wonderland (Underland) and this movie was a great representation of whatever you get out of the world of Alice. Even if this story takes liberties with the original books.
It is dark, fun, real and amazing looking. It creates Wonderland in a way that has never been done and it does so beautifully. The characters are all there as you want them to be. For me some of those characters were better than they have been ever before. Especially Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen. I thought she was amazing. It created the world that we all pictured it would be without feeling forced or, like they were taking anything away from our childhood. This new Alice is almost exactly what I wanted it to be, and while some of it is a lot darker than the animated counterpart, I think it is perfect for any fan, except for the smallest of kids. So check it out this weekend, in 3-D if you can. It is worth it.
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Family
Published by The Reviewer 1 week ago
in Action.
One Sentence: A lesser sequel.
Rated: R
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Release Date: 05-Mar-2010
Nudity: None
This one might be confusing to a lot of you, it is a sequel to a French Parkuor movie that came out in 2004. That movie I liked enough to recommend to all of you. It wasn't amazing but it worked. So 6 years later the sequel is getting released to limited theaters in the U.S. It was written by Luc Besson, who writes a lot of things I love. It sounds like a good combination, Parkuor, action, fighting, Luc Besson and a sequel to a movie that I enjoyed.
So it is sad for me to say that I thought this movie was lacking in some of the fundamentals that I was expecting, which made it a total let down. The man thing, was the lack of Parkuor in this movie. There was one scene of it in the movie and was short and under-used in the movie. They got the same guys from the first one, and then just didn't really execute at least one of them in a productive way. These guys were cast for their Parkuor skills, not their acting skills. So it really didn't deliver what I was expecting.
There was a lot of fighting, and it was smooth, well shot, and very fun. This is what worked with the first movie having both good fighting and Parkour together. Without the Parkour we have to look at the story more, and with it being a little weak, with a ending that really made my suspension of disbelief work overtime, I think that this sequel is skippable. I think you could rent it if you were a fan of the first movie, but it's not something you should pay box office prices for.
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3 Stars,
Action
Published by The Reviewer 1 week, 6 days ago
in Horror.
One Sentence: Crazy scary.
Rated: R
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Release Date: 26-Feb-2010
Nudity: None
Maybe I am just happy that there is something good in the theater, but I really liked The Crazies. It seems like the drought of a good scary movie has been even longer. I can't even remember the last good scary movie I saw. So when The Crazies was over, even with the overdone ending I was very pleased. The Crazies hit all the good fear buttons that are working right now. Supernatural doesn't seem to be doing too well these days so The Crazies story which is rooted in reality delivered a lot of scary moments.
Everything about this movie worked, it was small in scope and characters. It was simple, the idea made sense and when it wanted to make you jump out of your seat it did so, and it did it well. There were a couple of things that were a little far fetched but it is easily overlooked because of how tense you are watching the movie. I was scared and I am very happy about that.
Monkeyjenn said after the movie as she is getting older she is liking scary movies less, which I think is a great sign for The Crazies. She was scared, I was scared and the movie worked, so I would check it out this weekend in the theater, especially if you have been hoping for something scary to come out.
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4 Stars,
Horror
Published by monkeyjenn 3 weeks, 3 days ago
in Comedy.
One sentence: Steve Buscemi plays Steve Buscemi
Release Date: 29-Jan-2010
Running Time: 85 min
Nudity: Man penis
I went into this movie not even knowing the title. By the time I learned it, it didn't matter because the movie already started. Steve Buscemi plays the character that he plays in pretty much all of his movies: the grumpy, down on his luck, greasy guy. I'm not complaining. I think he plays that character very well and he's one of my favorite actors.
This time, his character's name is John and he works as a car insurance claims adjuster who is given the opportunity to be promoted to fraud investigator. Sara Silverman plays John's girlfriend, Jill, and she is perfect for this role. Jill is a bit awkward and a little crazy, but in a harmless way. She loves smiley faces and I mean LOVES them. Romany Malco is great and steals the movie as Virgil, a veteran investigator who travels with him to show him the ropes.
This movie is quirky and slightly funny. It's about John's adventure which ends with him learning a life lesson. It's not extraordinary, but I thought is was entertaining and funny enough. There is nothing visually special that requires seeing it at the theater. Unless you just want to see a movie and would like something that is different from the norm. If so, I recommend going to a matinee.
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3 Stars,
Comedy
Published by The Reviewer 3 weeks, 6 days ago
in Horror.
One Sentence: Classic horror gone wrong.
Rated: R
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Release Date: 12-Feb-2010
Nudity: Emily Blunt side boob.
So you take a classic 1941 horror movie and remake it. What do you expect, a simple remake along the lines of the original, with a simple plot about a monster and love. Do you reboot it, make it 2010, with a lot more in it, and make it nothing like the original except for the name? I think most would go with the first one, however after seeing Paramount's attempt at reviving classic horror, I might have liked the high budget reboot instead.
The Wolfman was quite a painful experience, and I am not talking about the excessive gore and blood that was drenched across the screen, I am talking about the extremely thin plot, and horribly boring horror movie experience. It seemed like everyone that was part of this movie wanted to go with the classic horror feel of the original Wolfman, except make it a lot bloodier. It made for a movie that felt weak, empty and resorting to cheap tricks to try to scare the audience, an audience that has had 70 years to evolve from the original release. I was bored and didn't feel scared or jumped once during the whole 2 hours and 5 minutes this movie ran, when the movie ended, someone next to me got up and said, "That was one of the worst movies I have ever seen." I am not going to go as far as to say one of the worst, but I am going to say that no one here should go see this movie in the theater, on DVD, HBO or on Sunday afternoon on TBS, unless you are looking for one of the least scary horror movies ever made to fall asleep to.
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Horror
