Your weekly guide to what's worth watching: capsule reviews and picks for new theatrical and streaming releases.
After a full week at the theater that resulted in reviews for Wadjda, Carrie, All is Lost, Kill Your Darlings, and The Fifth Estate, I took to catching up with some Halloween-themed movies at home. After taking the next step into the Paranormal franchise, I delved into Alex Proyas‘ The Crow, the Italian mob movie...
However inconsistent Weekly Review might be at this point, I’m trying to revitize it…especially since I’m sick at home and have nothing better to do. In the theater this week, I relished the much awaited fall season with screenings of the excellent Dallas Buyers Club and Captain Phillips. Fluffy popcorn flicks (Ocean’s Twelve, Abraham Lincoln:...
It’s been a long, long time since the last edition of Weekly Review so this installment should realistically read more like Monthly Review butlet’s just pretend together here. Aside from some at home viewing that included getting through the first season of BBC’s Luther, which I’ve really begun to enjoy, some easily digestible watching with...
I spent a lot of time at SIFF screenings this week and got a chance to watch Populaire, The Spectacular Now, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, V/H/S 2, The Way, Way Back and The East, the later of which are awaiting embargo lifts for reviews,as well as Star Trek Into Darkness. For the most part it...
In theaters this week, I caught The Great Gatsby as well as a number of films over at the Seattle International Film Festival. While I already wrote up reviews for What Maisie Knew, which is arguably the best movie of the year so far, and Mistaken for Strangers, the quasi-documentary on The National, I also...
Just a couple of flicks from 2012 that I never got to see in this week’s installment of Weekly Review. This is 40 seemed to largely divide critics but I found it to be a very ugly, very unnecessary film. Frank and Robot, however, was a nice little independent drama worthy of a worth if...
This week I had a chance to catch up with some more films filling out that ever-growing list of “movies to see.” I finally got to see Terrence Howard‘s knockout performance in Hustle and Flow, Woody Allen‘s masterpiece Manhattan, a rocky rom-com Like Crazy and a David Hyde Pierce psychopathic-thriller The Perfect Host. Hustle...
This week in movie watching, I caught up on a few films that I’d been wanting to see from around the world including the French dramedy The Intouchables, Samuel L. Jackson and Christina Rucci deep-south film Black Snake Moan, and a difficult British film that explored some tough issues – Fish Tank. The Intouchables...
Lazing around on the coach has never been so good, especially when it’s considered “work”. This week, I took a look at Seth MacFarlane‘s supposed comedy Ted, the acclaimed foreign film from France Holy Motors, the Weinstein‘s MPAA debacle-filled documentary Bully as well as the first season of AMC‘s The Killing. Ted (2012) ...
This week in movie watching, I finally got around to watching Alfonso Cuaron‘s much laded Y Tu Mama Tambien, the Aaron Paul–Mary Elizabeth Winstead alcoholic indie flick, Smashed, 2011’s overrated horror flop Insidious and the very raunchy and very funny, Bachelorette. Y Tu Mama También (2001) What may at first appear to be...