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I only watched this in the hopes of seeing Emma Watson semi-nude, but the movie doesn't even manage that much. It's about a bunch of teenagers whose stupidity defies description stealing from celebrities whose stupidity also defies description. Usually a movie makes you identify with the characters to some degree, even if you don't really like them ( Read more... )

Millions of people speak to God. What if God spoke back? Life just got a hell of a lot more confusing for teenage Joan Girardi, who already deals with feeling out of place in her family : her police chief father, her somewhat overbearing mother, her geeky younger brother and former football star older brother, now paralyzed. They'd never believe ( Read more... )

The series is a radical departure from the book, and I can't say that the experiment is successful. Will Graham, who was a highly perceptive and imaginative, but generally normal person in the book, has been reimagined as a sociophobic psychic, which makes it rather difficult to identify with him, but that's not even the biggest problem. The ( Read more... )

The movie starts out as a promising serial killer film, but then descends into melodrama and mawkishness that feel completely inappropriate and out of place in a film that features a child-murdering psychopath. Stanley Tucci does a great job portraying the killer, but is given too little screen time to make the most out of his role. Instead, the ( Read more... )

The movie starts with the now undead Bella coming to her senses and seeing everything in 20x magnification. Then Edward comes in, and apparently she is smitten by his beauty, although he should look really gross in macrovision mode. They cuddle, and then he says she must be hungry, and she is like "oh yeah, totally", like she was completely unaware ( Read more... )

Reminded me of my awkward teenage years, but was entertaining on the whole. It's about this loser kid who starts high school and feels completely alone and shit, but is soon taken in by the local "misfit" crowd, which includes Emma Watson. Naturally, he falls for her, and naturally, she puts him in the friend zone, but at least he has friends. And ( Read more... )

I think the eighties were the heyday of the West, a time of unrivaled prosperity and freedom when decadence and decay had not yet set in. How can I tell? Because movies from that time have balls. They can have a predominantly white cast and not feel apologetic about it. They can have strong female characters without making a point of it. They can ( Read more... )

This one got me more emotionally involved than the previous two installments, but still feels like it lacks real substance. The images of the October revolution repeating itself in New York, er, Gotham, are chilling, but the movie holds back, and it shouldn't. Let us see Alfred and Lucius Fox hang. Let's see Catwoman gang-raped. Let's see Batman ( Read more... )

This one wasn't very popular with the critics, apparently. Can't imagine why. The title promises you Abraham Lincoln hunting vampires, and you get fucking Abraham Lincoln hunting fucking vampires. What's not to like? Yeah, it's not all action, some screen time is also devoted to Lincoln's political career, but that's kind of the point. He can't ( Read more... )