The Merry Gentleman features the directorial debut of Michael Keaton, who also stars in the movie. I haven’t seen him in so long I didn’t even remember what he looked like but he shows some good promise behind the camera at the helm of this nuanced and slow-paced study of loneliness.
Category: "Movie Reviews"
Movie Review: Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
Sunshine Cleaning, directed by Christine Jeffs, is a comedy-drama co-starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt. This small indie production premiered at, you guessed it… the good old Sundance Film Festival and well, I like them indies and it has the brilliant Amy Adams so this was next on my watchlist.
Movie Review: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Directed by Shane Black, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a 2005 dark comedy that was completely overlooked in the US, barely grossing $4.2M at the US box office, despite mostly favorable critical acclaim.
Movie Review: Zombieland (2009)
Finally got to see Zombieland, a zom-com directed by Ruben Fleischer. Zombieland starts wells as we are immersed in this somewhat ridiculous yet somewhat realistic post-apocalyptic world. Zombies have taken over the world and very few survivors remain. Only the wittiest and not necessarily strongest have survived the onslaught. However, this quickly fades into a pointless road trip slash zombie movie.
Movie Review: State of Play (2009)
State of Play is a political thriller directed by Kevin Macdonald and released back in April of 2009. I initially wanted to see it in theater due to the deliriously star-studded cast but ended up not going so I was quite thrilled to get my hands on the DVD. State of Play stands in sharp contrast with the movies we have seen the last few months (or years in fact) because it’s a smart and engaging adult movie about something meaningful and current
Movie Review: Breach (2007)
Directed by Billy Ray, Breach is a docudrama based on the chain of events that lead to the arrest of spy Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who sold highly sensitive information to the Soviet Union over more than twenty years. Arrested in February of 2001, Hanssen was responsible for possibly the largest US intelligence breach [...]
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is a graphic and thrilling World War II period fantasia set in occupied France. Clocking in at 152 minutes, the film is lengthy yet never dull and features several parallel stories and characters that end up converging toward a climatic ending.
Movie Review: District 9 (2009)
Directed by Neill Blomkamp, District 9 starts with a highly intriguing premise as a mockumentary with plenty of TV-like news report about the current situation which sets up this alternate world creatively.
Movie Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)
The Time Traveler’s Wife is a romantic drama directed by Robert Schwentke, adapted from Audrey Niffenegger’s bestseller of the same name. Adapting a novel with complex elements and undertones to the silver screen is a daunting task and director Robert Schwentke struggled to compromise between satisfying readers of the novel and making the movie accessible to people unfamiliar with the book. Overall, the movie has some significant directing and screenwriting flaws but does make for an unpretentious and above-average romantic tragedy thanks to its two compelling leads.
Movie Review: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a Romanian movie directed by Cristian Mungiu, that takes place in 1987 communist Romania. It took me a while to get to that movie because I knew it was going to be emotionally gut-wrenching, and it was…
