I missed my prom - wish I had missed this one too. Swift shot: Look, I love Disney, but sometimes even they miss the mark, apart from a few brilliant one-liners and brief moments of comedy, I think anyone over 12 would skip this "Prom". I wanted to like this more, but the production was rushed together and the acting was just not great all-around, which is something I … [Read more...] about Disney’s “Prom”
Archives for April 2011
Fast Five
It's in Rio, but there aint no dancing parrots! - Swift Oh great....another installment in the "Fast and the Furious" series. More street racing, more scantily-clad women, more fast cars and more meat-head guys right?? Wrong!! This is number five and probably the second best film in the series (after the original). I thought the franchise was tired … [Read more...] about Fast Five
Water for Elephants
Review by Alyn Darnay Directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) Starring: Reese Witherspoon (Walk The Line), Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga), Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds), Paul Schneider (Lars and the Real Girl), Jim Norton (Harry Potter), Hal Holbrook (Into The Wild) Based on the acclaimed bestseller by Sara Gruen, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS congers up a love … [Read more...] about Water for Elephants
Rio
The vibrant film inspires viewers to fly and be free! Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) is a rare breed of macaw that is adopted at a young age by a little girl, Linda after being kidnapped from his birth place Rio de Janeiro. Because he was domesticated in the small town of Moose Lake, Minnesota, Blu never learned to fly. Blu and Linda spend their days in Linda’s book shop and lead … [Read more...] about Rio
Scre4m
Same shit, different decade! The H-Bomb: The original “Scream” came seemingly from out of nowhere back in ’96, my Freshman year of high school, and almost overnight became all the rage. I remember it like it was yesterday. “Scream” was the movie everyone was talking about, and for good reason. Yeah, it was another slasher with teens getting sliced and diced, but it was … [Read more...] about Scre4m