Tag: "Movie Reviews"
If the “Heat” Isn’t On, It Should Be.
I have had Heat among my favorite movies ever since I saw it for the first time in the mid 1990s. It is one of the best-written, best-acted movies I’ve ever seen, with at least two action scenes that will take your breath away (almost literally!), and a cast that is as strong from top [...]
“The Expendables” Review: Why Can’t Hollywood Make More Action Flicks Like This?
Here is my short review of Sylvester Stallone’s star-studded action flick The Expendables: It’s a nigh-perfect popcorn movie that has absolutely no pretense at being anything else. Stallone and company deliver clever quips, gunfire of such quantity you could walk across it, and lots of deliciously large explosions. In the process, they bring back the [...]
Mote? Meet Giant Beam of Delusion
One of the things I despise when reading movie or music reviews is the unwanted and ill-informed insertion of a political opinion into a piece that ought not to be even a little bit political. That sort of intrusion is a lot like finding a cockroach baked into a delicious brownie that you’ve already half-eaten, [...]
Maybe “The Hurt Locker” Isn’t Just A Left-Wing, Anti-Soldier Diatribe
My editor at the American Issues Project, Catherine Favazza, has a review of HBO’s The Hurt Locker in today’s Washington Examiner. I’ve read a couple reviews of the movie (most notably here) that have lambasted it for being yet another left-wing diatribe about the evil warmongers that sent our innocent lambs to Iraq where they [...]
Star Trek, by the Numbers.
Glenn Reynolds definitely knows how to throw out the geek-bait: link to someone’s ranking of all the Star Trek movies. Yes, I’m going to quibble with that post and re-rank them myself. I’m a geek. I can’t really resist. I will say this first. If you haven’t seen the first three Star Trek movies in [...]
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (or, “Badgers? We don’t need no steenking…wait. Yes. Yes, we actually do need a steenking badger.”)
I just got back from watching The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and I have but one piece of friendly advice. Go see the movie. It doesn’t matter if you have small children, or even older children with you. Load up your sense of wonder, your willingness to be dazzled, your desire to feel triumph [...]
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