I just finished another marathon round on Netflix. The site loads very slowly so I typically only go on and add to the queue in fits. Last time, about two months ago, I ended up adding dozens of old Japanese movies, mostly samurai-focused (only to determine that I don’t really enjoy most old samurai movies. […]

Welp, I finally got to watch Sicko tonight. I’d have to say it was one of the better (if not best) Moore movies.
If you go by some of the forums and blogs out there, you’d think everyone either idolizes or demonizes Moore. But, as par the course, those are just the loudest reactionaries on both […]

Anthony Hopkins is looking old. Or perhaps he just pulls off a deaf, doddering 68-year-old New Zealander very well. Either way, his performance in The World’s Fastest Indian makes for an entertaining, light-hearted film based on true events. Hopkins plays Burt Munro, an eccentric personality from Down Under, whose sole passion in life is his […]

Night Watch is the first in a trilogy, based upon the science-fiction novels of Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko. Working with a budget of around $4 million (exceptionally large for Russian cinema) director Timur Bekmambetov created a popular piece of action film for 2004, raking in one of the largest openings for a Russian film in […]

Munich was a worrying film. Steven Spielberg is a great director, to be sure, but his recent efforts – everything from War of the Worlds to Artificial Intelligence: AI – have been lacking. Spielberg’s true opuses were made in the seventies and eighties. Since then, the emphasis seems to have turned more and more to […]