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Review of Blast of Silence
Out of the black of silence comes...Born out of pain and instilled with hate and anger, Baby Face Frankie Bono is a hit man who knows all that matters is to get the job done. This is the premise of Allen Baron’s overlooked Noir masterpiece from the early 60’s. One of the last of its kind, ... read morePosted on 04/17/2008 by matt2648 
Review of Waking Life
Wake UpWaking Life, Richard Linklater's successor to his first movie, Slacker, is a series of vignettes that discuss subjects of physics, language, after-life, existentialism, and dreams. There is no plot per se other than the fact that your following Wiley Wiggens through a sort of dream like trance that takes him ... read morePosted on 02/12/2008 by matt2648 
Review of Network
Low Ratings are a KillerI just finished reading a book called The Nightly News by Jonathan Hickman which is a graphic novel about a cult of men and woman who in one way or another had their lives ruined by the news media so in retaliation they decide to cause havoc and mayhem by ... read morePosted on 02/12/2008 by matt2648 
Review of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
AssassinationBloated, epic, boring, and beautiful. All of those words can easily describe The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Andrew Dominik’s second feature is ambitious and successful in some part but flawed nonetheless. Similar to Dominik’s first feature Chopper, which focused on a charismatic criminal, “Assassination” shows ... read morePosted on 02/10/2008 by matt2648 
Review of The Lookout
The LookoutA good heist thriller usually needs to have three elements to make it good: 1) involving main character, 2) interesting heist, 3) and charismatic supporting characters. When you could figure out those three things then everything else will fall into place. Scott Frank's directorial debut takes those three aspects and ... read morePosted on 02/10/2008 by matt2648 
Review of No Country For Old Men
Call It, FriendoThree crime fiction masterpieces, all by the same directorial team. Is that even possible? Obviously it is because the Coen Brothers have done it. Blood Simple was there first foray into film and crime fiction and what was produced was an amazing thriller that saw three men do things they ... read morePosted on 01/03/2008 by matt2648 
Review of There Will Be Blood
I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!Who would've thought Paul Thomas Anderson could top Magnolia in sheer audacity. Seriously. That movie was like 3 hours long, had 12 different main characters, and more coincidences than Senator Larry Craig in a Russian bathhouse. But he has, with his new ambitious epic There Will Blood which doesn't top ... read morePosted on 01/02/2008 by matt2648 
Review of I Am Legend
I Am AverageThe Last man on earth is not alone! Because there are poorly done CGI vampire creatures roaming the streets of Manhattan at night. Yes that's right it's another monster movie fronting as an intimate look at the psyche of the last man on earth who just happens to be a ... read morePosted on 12/19/2007 by matt2648 
Review of Dirty Pretty Things
Dirty Pretty ThingsHow would you react if you were a hotel porter and you found a heart clogging a toilet in one of the rooms of the hotel? What if on top of that you were an illegal immigrant afraid of deportation so going to the police is your last option? That’s ... read morePosted on 12/05/2007 by matt2648 |
