Mini Movie Reviews Archives
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Film Bite: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Comparisons of course are being made between Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and The Fault in Our Stars (click for T&T post) They're both books to movies aimed at a young adult audience using humor to defuse the bleakness of staring mortality in the face at such a young age. But Fault is a straight up story about falling in love and Earl tries to pretend it's not...
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MOVIE “KETCHUP”: Far From the Madding Crowd
Most everyone thinks the title is Far From the "Maddening" Crowd, once upon a time, I used to think so too. In researching the title, it's not too far off - the word "madding" means to make wild or insane, derived from the word "madden" to drive to distraction. ..
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Noah Baumbach’s WHILE WE’RE YOUNG
it's something a bit off kilter and original, but not too quirky or overly imaginative. Well-written humor without comedic shtick. Character driven with just enough plot and narrative to keep it on track. Social commentary without clubbing you over the head with an issue, fate or state-of-being...
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Summer Disaster Movie: SAN ANDREAS (Podcast with The Black Tribbles)
This summer's catastrophe flick SAN ANDREAS uses this "common knowledge" to create a West Coast earthquake and tsunami disaster we hopefully will never have to actually witness. Dwayne Johnson (aka "The Rock"), plays a rescue helicopter pilot named Ray...
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Artificial Intelligence: EX MACHINA
Screenwriter Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Dredd, Sunshine) decided he'd direct his latest film, a creepy Sci-fi, with nice plot twists - EX MACHINA. Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) works as a programmer or coding expert for a Google like company called Bluebook. He wins an inter-corporate contest to spend a week with the founder, Nathan (Oscar Isaac) of Bluebook, and thinks it's an amazing chance to hang out with a super intelligent programming genius, hashing out theories and going over Algorithm and Ambient Occlusion and techie junk like that...
