"Tell your stupid story . . . and die already!" - Elaine Benis on the English Patient Benjamin Button takes you on a long, pointless journey with a passionless void of cliched themes and uninspired screen-writing. So many other critics have labeled this a rip-off of Forrest Gump, but as this film was based on a Fitzgerald work, I guess it would be the other way … [Read more...] about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Next Day Air
What I learned from “Next Day Air”: if you mistakenly receive a package and the real recipients of the package come to get it from you, give it to them. Don’t ask questions. Just do it. “Next Day Air” stars Donald Faison as Leo, a lazy, unmotivated delivery man. When he drops off an important package to the wrong apartment, it sets off a chain reaction of events that impacts … [Read more...] about Next Day Air
Star Trek
"Which path will you choose?" J. J. Abrams brings his unique writing to a classic franchise. With Star Trek, he takes by far the most influential sci-fi series of all time and dons a Jedi cloak to reinvent the franchise with more grit, grime, and guts than the classic fare. Always with my friends was the question, which is better Star Trek or Star Wars, as Abrams … [Read more...] about Star Trek
Body of Lies
Can you hear me now? Gooood, and that is all I can say about Body of Lies, it was good, a solid Goober flick, but lacking in a lot of places. A lot of the film is spent with characters Ed Hoffman (Russel Crowe) and Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) on cell-phones, with service, ironically enough. Ridley Scott assumes the audience knows his characters, and as we all know … [Read more...] about Body of Lies
