Shutter Island (2010)
Shutter Island (2010) – A book-to-screen adaptation will always suffer under the weight of expectation. I’ve voraciously devoured about eight of Dennis Lehane’s books now, Shutter Island included. I like the way that the man spins a mystery and I usually end up crushed by his usual downer endings. I love that not only has … Continue reading
2012 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films
2012 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts – The past few years a company called Shorts HD (formerly Shorts International) has been released the Academy Award Nominated Short Films. There are three categories: Live Action, Animation, and Documentary (which was unfortunately screened only one night in Sacramento so I missed it). These are the Live Action nominees. … Continue reading
Extract (2009)
Extract (2009) – I generally enjoy Mike Judge. I just had a debate with a friend of mine on the merits of King of the Hill. I loved Idiocracy. His 2009 film Extract has some tonal similarities with his film from ten years prior, Office Space. Extract, however, is no Office Space. It has things … Continue reading
The Killer Inside Me (2010)
The Killer Inside Me (2010) – Stanley Kubrick called Jim Thompson’s novel The Killer Inside Me one of the most disturbing portrayals of the psychopathic mind he had ever seen. I have not read that book, but now that I have seen Michael Winterbottom’s film adaptation, I cannot imagine that Stan was that far off. … Continue reading
The Town (2010)
The Town (2010) — While not on the same level as his debut Gone Baby Gone, The Town proves that Ben Affleck really seems to know what he’s doing as a director. He got massively overexposed in the late 90s/early 2000s and did just about anything for a paycheck (including a movie called Paycheck) but … Continue reading
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) — I saw this movie in 1992 at the tender young age of 7. It ranks alongside Encino Man and Adventures in Babysitting as a movie I will always love no matter how silly or dated it may seem. Yeah, I know nerd god Joss Whedon had his script heavily … Continue reading
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Gone Baby Gone (2007) — So I just read the book and wanted to watch the movie again with that new frame of reference. As an adaptation goes, the movie is rather streamlined. Some of the casting is off from the descriptions in the book but if I have problems with this movie, the cast … Continue reading
Persistence of Vision 