Category: The Twenty-First Century

Evaluating any movie is a matter of personal taste. Filmmakers who deal with an idea that has been done so many times before might find it difficult to bring something new to the table. This is my way of saying that I couldn’t stand “Battle: Los Angeles”. In fact, I had a violent reaction to the film, which…

“The Resident” is a thriller that you’ve probably seen hundreds of times before. It’s not exactly a bad movie, as it kept me entertained for the entire 90 minutes, but it’s nothing special either. It would be best to describe it as Hitchcock-lite, as it is an old fashioned psychological thriller that falls short of…

  It wouldn’t be fair to call this movie a disappointment, for the simple fact that my expectations weren’t so high to begin with. The story will definitely keep you interested, but there’s nothing here we haven’t seen before plot wise. What we have is a group of old college friends who reunite for a wedding. The…

When it comes to british comedy, nobody does it quite like the hilarious Simon Pegg/Nick Frost duo. After the massive success of both “Shaun Of The Dead” and “Hot Fuzz”, the dudes are back in one of the funniest movies I’ve seen so far this year. In “Paul”, they play two british nerds on vacation…

“Last Night” deals with a subject that has been recycled countless of times: how easy it is to give in to temptation, and how thin the line is between “to betray or not to betray”. Here we find a married couple, Joanna and Michael (Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington) who flirt with the idea of cheating. They are moving…

One of the most fascinating thing about our existence is the fact that we know everything, but have forgotten most of it. We’ve been told countless of times that we only use a small portion of our brains. Now imagine what we could do if we were to put our entire brain online. Ultimate power,…

I loved Duncan Jones’s directorial debut “Moon”, so I was more than willing to accept the premise of his latest movie, about a former pilot (Jake Gyllenhaal)  who finds himself involved in a government program that requires him to travel repeatedly back to the same moment in time, searching for clues in a train in…

“London Boulevard” is a movie that looks good on the outside, yet you still end up wondering why the hell did you watch it in the first place. Every single element of it is right (from the actors to the writer), so why does it end up being so boring and uninvolving? Let’s start with the…

Ashton Kutcher is surprisingly believable in this uneven, but not completely uninteresting movie about a homeless and careless womanizer who uses his physical good looks to prey on the wealthy single women of Los Angeles. For him, his life is that of a classic dreamer, and with his kind of aestethics, he could be living the…

This movie has an intended audience: People who don’t mind a raunchy, racy, and dirty comedy. In other words: if you’ve enjoyed most of the Farrelly brother’s movies (“There’s Something About Mary, “Dumb And Dumber”, “The Heartbreak Kid”…), then you will probably watch and enjoy “Hall Pass” aswell. Personally, I can’t say I was thrilled…

“The Way Back” is a movie that will definitely appeal to those who appreciate epic landscapes and survival stories. It’s the inspiring and incredible story of  a group of Soviet Gulag prisoners who escaped from a Siberian prison camp in the dead of winter and made their way across Mongolia and the Gobi desert, ending…

Warning: sleep inducer. “Country Strong” is the lousy version of “Crazy Heart”. I couldn’t help but notice some similarities between the two, but lets be honest here: Gwyneth Paltrow is no Jeff Bridges, and the movie isn’t half as good as “Crazy Heart”. Paltrow plays a washed up country singer struggling to get back on her…

What the makers of this terrible film don’t seem to realise is that we’ve lost hope in this series the minute Paul Giamatti dropped out of part two. Now five years after the first sequel, Martin Lawrence is back as Malcom a.k.a Big Momma, although his love interest (who supposedely played an important role in the…

“Rango” is the most bizarre animated movie I’ve ever laid my eyes on. And I mean this in a good way, because I’ve never seen anything quite like it before, and I enjoyed every second of it. The trailer had almost completely left out any kind of plot hint, which I now realise was a very…

You don’t really know what to expect when you sit down to watch “Hereafter”. I went in thinking it would be something similar to the dreadful “What Dreams May Come”, but I’m glad it wasn’t. What I got instead was something fascinating, thought provoking and unforgettable. “Hereafter” grabs your attention from the first minute, with…

I’ve really enjoyed watching the Jackass series over the years, especially when it used to air on MTV. It felt fresh, funny, and amazingly shocking. Who didn’t want to be Johny Knoxville or Bam Margera? I know I did. The first two movies were even more horrifying, and an instant hit. However, the third installment…