Mini-Review: Where were they going with this? It seriously needed some editing (how much of his dickhole manager did I have to see?) and skimped on his actual legacy. There were a lot of questions that could be explored (like "WTF is with his fingernails?") but instead it focused on a mostly unexciting tour.
Mini-Review: This is one silly-ass movie.
Mini-Review: Happened to watch it lying sideways drifting in and out of sleep. As it happens, that's exactly the way to do it, drifting between visuals, loosely connecting narrative bites... the film does it for you but it helped me watch it as a sensual experience, which is exactly what it wants to be.
Mini-Review: I really appreciate an ambitious sci-fi movie and they really tried here. It has its own style, a fresh idea, it wasn't TOTALLY action, it had decent actors... but the concept was just kind of weak. As were the conclusions draw from it. As were the awful time-related puns. As was Timberlake's goofy running style, like he was a robot or something. Oh well
Mini-Review: Probably could have worked just as well as a This American Life episode, but I guess then I'd have to google all the nudie pics
Mini-Review: I get a little tired of these "in too deep" sort of movies but goddamn if Drive isn't smart about it. It chooses its influences like as tools for the job, rather than homage, and the result is so many parts 80s, 70s, crime, horror, arthouse, car movie, blah blah, that it just doesn't matter anymore. It's just a good movie.
Mini-Review: This was a surprise! I held off on watching because I've seen a boatload of space documentaries, but this was almost like the Herzog take, eschewing the retelling and going straight for the impact on the human mind. The sort of perspective that this experience gives these few men speaks as loudly as the footage. You'll finish it wondering if there's anything you want more than to touch your boot to that surface.
Mini-Review: The doc is less on the ape or the research and more about the idiots conducting it. And no, I don't think it does a good job making that interesting either
Mini-Review: Frankie Muniz stars in over-the-top CG action adventure that doesn't wow, but feels like two hours well spent. Might be the best CG I've ever seen, but couldn't help but think that the best moments of tension would likely be better if they were live action. You'd think the guy that owns the genre would know it.