AMERICAN SNIPER * * *
Starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Keir O’Donnell, Luke Grimes and Sammy Sheik. Screenplay by Jason Hall. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
Monthly Archives: January 2015
BLACKHAT
BLACKHAT * * * 1 / 2
Starring Chris Hemsworth, Wei Tang, Leehom Wang, Holt McCallany and Viola Davis. Screenplay by Morgan Davis Foehl. Directed by Michael Mann.
GIUSEPPE MAKES A MOVIE
“I’m not sure I’d ever want to sit through one of Andrews’ movies — though it uncharitably crossed my mind more than once that they look roughly as professional as Joe Swanberg pictures and are probably way more interesting — but watching him make one is an unexpectedly lovely experience. There’s a real generosity of spirit behind these scenes.” – Movie Mezzanine, 01/15/2015
STILL ALICE
“A shitty part of life is that we all eventually learn to accept that our bodies will someday betray us, but the mind is a different matter. Losing physical ability is sadly inevitable, losing comprehension is the stuff of nightmares. Moore does an expectedly outstanding job conveying Alice’s slow drift. Confusion gives way to helplessness, and then terrible fear.” – Movie Mezzanine, 01/15/2015
THE CHASE IS THE THING: ON MICHAEL MANN’S MANHUNTER, HEAT AND PUBLIC ENEMIES
“Invariably, professional success leads to personal destruction, with these men (and they’re always men in this Mann’s Mann’s world, baby) sacrificing their families, loved ones and quite often their souls in these pursuits. Whoever wins is the guy willing to lose the most. Victories are muted, so pyrrhic they feel like defeats.” – RogerEbert.com, 01/14/2015
TAKEN 3
TAKEN 3 *
Starring Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace, Dougray Scott and Famke Janssen. Written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. Directed by Olivier Megaton.
WILD
“Wild is a movie about the voices rattling around inside in your head when you’re all alone. It jumps back and forth in time bringing up every embarrassing moment you’d rather not remember and then grinds them all out in a physically punishing present-tense context. It’s only out here in the middle of nowhere that Cheryl figures out who she was, and who she is.” – North Shore Movies, 01/02/2015
THE FIVE WORST FILMS OF 2014
1. Labor Day 2. Men, Women And Children 3. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 4. Tusk 5. The Judge – Vulture, 01/02/2015
SPLICED PERSONALITY 