JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME is a small comedy. Coming in at under an hour and a half, it is one of those quirky indie films which gets in and gets out quickly. But is it any good?
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johnlink ranks LIKE CRAZY (2011)
•May 12, 2014 • 2 CommentsAnton Yelchin and Jennifer Lawrence are two of my favorite young actors. They are both in LIKE CRAZY, though Lawrence has only a minor role. This does also star Felicity Jones who I was unfamiliar with before now. I’d have to see another thing or two of hers, but she certainly could end up on that list as well.
johnlink ranks THE KILLING ROOM (2009)
•May 8, 2014 • 2 CommentsPulled this suspense flick without having any idea what it was. I had no idea, for example, that Nick Cannon was in it. Or that the dude with the accent from all the Michael Bay movies is one of the leads. This sounded like a horror movie (which it sort of is) and it sounded like a psychological thriller (which it definitely is). Anyway, I watched it.
johnlink ranks SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (2012)
•May 5, 2014 • 3 CommentsSEVEN PSYCHOPATHS is the second feature written and directed by IN BRUGES mastermind Martin McDonagh. IN BRUGES is one of those movies I have been wanting to see since it came out, but never got to. You’d think I’d have gotten there by now. Instead, here is a review of McDonagh’s second film.
johnlink ranks IRON MAN 3 (2013)
•May 3, 2014 • 4 CommentsI quickly punched back through the initial two IRON MAN films last week before taking a quick three-movie jump through some independent pictures which were the polar opposite of an IRON MAN film. The budget of ROBOT & FRANK was $2.5 million. The budget for the documentary DEAR ZACHARY was primarily made on a $30,000 before filmmaker Kurt Kuenne raised the bulk of the late-production and post-production costs through personal donations. We will give it a (probably inflated) total budget of $100,000. GRAY’S ANATOMY was made on $350,000 (albeit in 1996 dollars). Those three movies were all made for a total of under $3 million combined and were each, individually, better than the $200 million IRON MAN 2. So, now, here we are at another $200 million IRON MAN 3 with a budget almost 67 times greater than that of those three movies combined. No pressure.
johnlink ranks GRAY’S ANATOMY (1996)
•April 29, 2014 • Leave a CommentI saw this movie years ago, probably ’04 or ’05, and it always stuck with me. I studied some Spalding Gray for my Politics in Theater class, and it had been in my mind since. I’m writing a script for that class, but needed the work from other students to come in so that I could compile the full script. They were late, so I figured I’d kill some time by watching this thing again.
johnlink ranks DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER (2008)
•April 29, 2014 • 2 CommentsAt the end of last year, as I was hitting number 600 for movie rankings on this blog, my buddy John asked to stake a claim to watching movie 666 with me. He spent some time thinking about it. I had already seen ANTICHRIST, so he rejected that one (though wanted to do it for obvious reasons). He also considered just doing something terrible like THE ROOM. Ultimately, he decided to bring this documentary which, in his mind, demonstrates the ultimate definition of evil.
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johnlink ranks ROBOT & FRANK (2012)
•April 29, 2014 • Leave a CommentI’m on vacation from work this week (though I still have my final Grad School class) and celebrated by doing… very little. I did spend the kids’ nap watching a short little sci-fi/drama flick from a couple of years ago. It was a very pleasant surprise. Among the blockbuster action and the underwhelming horror flicks littering these pages, there sometime is a tendency to pass the quieter films. Much of my movie watching of late has been escapism. Even if ROBOT & FRANK is not akin to watching a Bergman film, it is still much more the type of thing I should be watching with more regularity.
johnlink re-ranks IRON MAN 2 (2010)
•April 27, 2014 • 2 CommentsThis is a re-ranking. I had seen, but not reviewed, the first IRON MAN. I haven’t seen the third IRON MAN. In between, I saw the second IRON MAN and reviewed it four years ago. I don’t remember what I said. I’ll link to it eventually, just in case you care about a four year old opinion of an unimportant theater goer. Know what? Maybe I won’t link to it. Below, at least, is the unimportant opinion of someone who JUST watched this thing.
johnlink ranks IRON MAN (2008)
•April 26, 2014 • 6 CommentsI have some how missed all of the Phase 2 Marvel films so far. It has not been intentional, it just hasn’t happened. I wanted to start with the third IRON MAN film, but haven’t seen the originals since I saw them in the theater. I figured it would be fun to get through all three in fairly quick fashion. So, and I know this is a novel concept, I started with the first one.
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