Archive for October, 2009
There’s no messing with Bronson
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Tom Hardy as Bronson, a performance you won’t soon forget.
Bronson is not the story of Charles Bronson, the tough guy actor who starred in Death Wish and who died in 2003. No, Bronson is a souped-up portrait of a man who acquired the reputation of being the most [...]
Michael Jackson in concert — almost
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Judging by his reputation, Michael Jackson had many personalities. We got a glimpse of one of them when we learned about Jackson’s personal Xanadu, Neverland Ranch. We saw another when Jackson was forced to drag himself into a Los Angeles courtroom as the cable TV cameras rolled. Over [...]
A hairy funny movie with Chris Rock
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Chris Rock watches as a girl gets “good ” hair.
It’s hardly a secret that women will go to great lengths and incur great debt in their quest for beauty. In the case of many black women — or so we’re reminded in Chris Rock’s funny and insightful Good [...]
Movie Preview: Not Evil Just Wrong
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Written by Black Entertainment USA
Remember when a regular guy stepped up and took on the mega-corporations in a movie. There was no end to coverage in the media and support for the film created a career for Michael Moore. Since that time he has jumped up and down on the Conservatives [...]
Suffering we’ll never understand
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Sometimes if feels as if there’s just no solace.
If we take A Serious Man as a guide, we can speculate that Joel and Ethan Coen view the universe in one of several ways: It is either godless, presided over by a deity who’s entirely indifferent to the plight [...]
Movie Review: Surrogates
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Written by Black Entertainment USA
Surrogates is the latest film to feature Bruce Willis. It’s an action sci-fi combination that plays on familiar themes, and slips in a bit ot philosophy/politics when you aren’t looking.
Starting with the plot, it does have one. It’s not hard to follow and it is set-up well. [...]
From the West Bank to White Castle
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Nisareen Faour and Hiam Abbass play sisters in Amreeka.I love movies about the changing face of the U.S. I’m particularly partial to stories about immigrants who live in identity-challenging twilight zones; they’re not fully integrated into American society, and they may no longer fit into their countries of [...]
Vaughn, Favreau on vacation from laughter
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Not folks with whom I’d want to be stranded on an island.
Couples Retreat seems to have been designed to send couples out of the theater holding hands, reassured that it’s possible to rediscover the spark in marriages grown stale. I’m not knocking the message, but I do take [...]
The worst films since 2000
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Written by Black Entertainment USA
Having watched Stargate Universe, and learning of the upcoming V revisioned television series, I natually started to think about the worst that Hollywood and the entertainment industry has provided viewers. The list I could imagine is hardly small. And I wasn’t the only one to come up [...]
The lie that changed the world
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner. One of them’s lying.
The Invention of Lying is the most sweetly subversive movie I’ve seen in a long time, a sad-sack comedy that satirizes the mindset that’s required for a literal belief in a deity that presides over the world with an inflexible [...]
Michael Moore weighs in on capitalism
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Wall Street doesn’t seem to be listening as Michael Moore calls it to task.
Here’s a shocker. Michael Moore thinks capitalism is evil.
Look, can there be any remaining moviegoer who doesn’t know what to expect from Michael Moore, the provocateur and self-annointed spokesman for the left? Moore’s shtick has [...]
Coming of age while skating
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Juliette Lewis and Ellen Page are rivals in Whip It.
Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut with Whip It, a film about roller derby and a young woman’s (Juno’s Ellen Page) arduous journey of self-discovery. The combination doesn’t make for anything startling, but results in a colorfully entertaining movie [...]
Zombies eat humans! Result: Laughs
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
It takes firepower to survive a zombie attack.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies slaughtering all of humanity. Apologies to T.S. Eliot, but in contemplating catastrophe Eliot didn’t have the benefit of seeing Zombieland. He knew nothing of [...]
