Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Archive Authors on February 29th, 2012
I am back! For now. Here to review Insight. Dun dun dun! A psychological thriller type that my husband thought I would like to take a look at. And then he bat his eyes and asked me to review it. Since I am a sucker for him and his gorgeous eyes, I agreed. Was this movie worth the look? Let's take a look, shall we?
So, we start the movie with an ambulance bringing in a stab victim. It is your typical scene of someone being wheeled in on a stretcher, down a hospital corridor. We learn that the stab victims name is Allison Parks (Angeline-Rose Troy) and she has been stabbed over a dozen times. They get to the operating room and start the usual medical jargon and run around the room acting like they are doing something important. They begin to fire up the heart zappers (Yes, I know there is a technical, fancy schmancy, medical name for them, but I like heart zappers, it sounds more festive) but before they can get them to full charge, the victim opens her eyes wide and looks at the nurse by her side. She tells her “He loved me”, the nurse grabs her, and ZAP! Nurse falls to the floor (You need to know that its not a good idea to grab someone who is about to be jolted with electricity, it does pass through one person to another).
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Archive Authors on February 27th, 2012
What takes 13.7 billion years.? The history of the world. This History Channel special takes two hours to cover everything. Of course, Earth is only 4.5 billion years old, so when we talk about the history of the world, we are really talking about the history of the universe and everything that led up to where we are now. Little things like a gigantic planetary collision which then shoots off molten debris which forms into our moon.
3.8 billion years ago, something happened all over the planet. Bacteria. This was the beginning of life.
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Archive Authors on February 27th, 2012
One of the great things about the movies is that it shows you things you would never see. You get to see a facsimile of people living their lives and get to experience a pertinent slice of their personal problems. We can be entertained by it and we can learn from it. It takes us out of our personal life and our personal problems. The closer to the truth a movie is the more we can identify with it. I have seen so many movies, but I know it just scratches the surface of the life stories out there. There use to be a movie and a TV show with the tag line, ”There are 8 million stories in the naked city”. I might be off on how many million that was, but there are nearly 8 billion people on the planet, and each of them has a story.
Answers To Nothing is about a bunch of people all living separate lives, and we get to see how they all intersect. It takes place in LA, and that makes it similar to a lot of movies about people who live in LA, most notably Best Picture Oscar winner Crash. These people’s lives are going to crash into each other, but we just don’t know how. Answers To Nothing takes its time introducing various characters, but clearly the most dominant story thread is a police investigation of a young girl who is missing. Julie Benz is the detective, and she is frustrated because she is certain that the person of interest (Greg German) in the investigation is guilty, but she has no real evidence. Dane Cook and Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost) are trying to have a baby but seem to be having a fertility problem. We know this because Cook has a girlfriend help him get a sperm sample for the doctor. There are many other lives introduced, and we slowly wait for the forces of circumstance and coincidence to intersect and converge. The performances are low-key and naturalistic. The details are small but telling. There is a woman who is struggling to take care of her severely brain-damaged brother and is fighting a custody case using Elizabeth Mitchell as the lawyer. There is a depressed cop (Eric Paladino) grieving a death who walks the beat in the neighborhood he lives. There is a black woman who writes for a comedy show who looks down on a lot of people of her own race. There is the young songwriter who has regular sex sessions with Dane Cook. There is a rather anonymous man who place computer games and works at a school who seems slyly obsessed with the media reports on the missing girl. There is a man who is looking for a missing dog who is always sitting looking at people walking their dogs in the dog park. Dane Cook thinks his mother, Barbara Hershey, is pathetic for thinking his father is coming back after nine years.
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Archive Authors on February 27th, 2012
By Natasha Samreny
“You don't choose a life Dad. You live one.”
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Archive Authors on February 24th, 2012
By Natasha Samreny
“The measure of a man is what's left when fame falls away.”
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Archive Authors on February 22nd, 2012
By Natasha Samreny
“I started doing comedy in the comedy clubs in 1977. I couldn't wait till I got my face on that doggone wall. I couldn't wait till they called my name and I walked through a smoke-filled room, the little small tables and pulled that mike out that hole.”
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on February 18th, 2012
The yesteryears of Disney were full of classic movies from Aladdin to 101 Dalmations. Each of those films holds a special place in my heart due to its warmth and very colorful, cute story. Having never seen Lady and the Tramp before picking up this early copy, I didn’t know what to expect of the film. Many declare it to be one of Disney’s best, which is certainly a remark that is quite distinguished. Would Lady and the Tramp capture my emotions and heart like so many old, classic Disney films did years ago? Read on to find out.
The basic story to Lady and the Tramp is as follows. A man named Jim Dear gives his wife Darling a mysterious box for Christmas. Inside that box is the ever-so-cute little cocker spaniel puppy, which Darling decides to name Lady. Lady spends most of her period growing up with two neighborhood dogs, Trusty and Jock. One day a dog named Tramp walks over the railroad tracks. When Darling has a child, we are introduced to two super ugly and vicious cats, Si and Am, courtesy of Aunt Sarah. Due to these evil cats and the new baby, Lady winds up in the doghouse. What happens next is cinematic history: the spaghetti scene and the start of a romance between Lady and Tramp.
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Archive Authors on February 6th, 2012
It would be nice if we were to get films as good as The Graduate from time to time. That’s asking a lot, but it would be nice. Another Happy Day is no The Graduate, but nothing is. Nothing could make such a seismic hit to a generation again. At least, I don’t think so. Another Happy Day did win the Best Screenwriting award at the Sundance film festival, and it seems well deserved. The film has a great cast, and you usually only get that if you have a great script or you spend a billion dollars. This film is clearly a small labor of love that did not set the world on fire. That’s probably because they did not spend a billion dollars to promote it.
It is sharply funny while dealing with painful issues. The family is getting together for a wedding, but it is really just going to cause everyone to pick at old wounds.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on February 2nd, 2012
Written by Joe Gause
Here we go again! It’s another movie about something dangerous in the water. I’m not gonna lie here, folks, I wasn’t expecting to much out of this one, but to my surprise I enjoyed it quite a bit. So here’s the short and skinny. A bunch of college kids set off to a lake house to enjoy a much-needed vacation. There is a fair amount of drinking and flirting and tomfoolery (always wanted to use that word). Early in the film we discover that Sara (Sara Paxton) has a dark secret with one of the town locals. As the party gets under way, trouble starts to brew in paradise when one of the partygoers gets his arm ripped off by a shark! In a panic to get him to the hospital they call the town sheriff (Donal Logue) only to find out that he and the locals have been releasing sharks into the saltwater lake and filming the shark attacks to sell to the folks at the Discovery channel! So, as you might guess, there is a fair amount of suspense-filled scenes with our heroes trying to not only escape the sharks, but also escape the crazy sheriff and the locals. It all comes to and end in a way that doesn’t leave you wanting to smack the director (which is rare in Hollywood these days).
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on February 2nd, 2012
Written by Brian Ludovico
To film fans, the clause “Directed by Alfred Hitchcock” has almost become an adjective in and of itself. It has come to mean suspense created by using the viewer’s imagination and mind as a part of the film, first and foremost. These films didn’t have the freedom of CG, and consequently had to invent ways to achieve visual effects (watch the documentary on Birds or Rear Window for example). Besides the lack of freedom of creation that digital filmmaking now provides, the filmmakers had to tip toe around the Hays code, not only restrictive on sex and sexual undertones, but also on content (as we learn in the featurettes here) and gore. The phrase, and the adjective that bears the director’s name, has grown to include a certain quality of characters and meticulous film crafting in every phase of the production. Rebecca, therefore, can rightfully be called “classic Hitchcock.”
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