Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by J C on September 9th, 2013
High concepts don’t come much loftier than the one behind Starbuck. An underachieving slacker learns he has fathered 533 children thanks to frequent deposits at a sperm bank 20 years earlier. In fact, the premise was so nice, writer/director Ken Scott decided to do it twice. Vince Vaughn will star in an American remake later this year called Delivery Man. Whether you’re excited for the new film or you think it looks stupid, I highly recommend you give the funny and touching French-Canadian original a look.
David Wozniak (Patrick Huard) is a charming screw-up in his early forties who works as a delivery guy for his family’s butcher shop. He’s the kind of clueless dolt who thinks growing pot in his apartment to pay off personal debts is a solid idea. David also has a fed-up girlfriend named Valerie (Julie LeBreton) who just found out she is pregnant and doesn’t believe David has what it takes to be a father.
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by J C on September 6th, 2013
“It’s not a good thing to find oneself living by an outmoded code of conduct. People take you to be a fool.”
Christopher Tietjens, the furiously principled Englishman at the center of this early 20th century drama, is simultaneously a man ahead of his time and part of a dying breed of gentleman. The most frustrating part of Christopher’s predicament is that he also has enough intelligence and self-awareness to realize exactly how out of place his behavior is.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 5th, 2013
"I believe man will fly. And I base this assumption on the fact that God has blessed us with minds that are capable of imagining it. Anything that can be dreamt of will eventually be built. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool."
The term “Renaissance man” is often used to describe a person who has a very wide range of interests in which they have become quite skilled. It's taken from the traits of the many artists, innovators and writers of the 15th century. And while the term might well apply to any number of such historical figures, there is none for whom it is more apt than Leonardo Da. Vinci.
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Brent Lorentson on September 5th, 2013
There are so many vampire films, it’s hard to get excited any time a trailer for one comes along. The Twilight series as well as shows like True Blood and The Vampire Diaries have managed to take everything I once enjoyed about the menacing creature and turned it into a joke. Let the Right One In and the American remake Let Me In are the last vampire films that had any substance that went for more than cheap thrills and gore and delivered a solid story. That is until Kiss of the Damned came along. It’s a film that keeps things simple, yet brings back the beautiful elegance of the creature we loved to fear.
When we first meet Djuna (Josephine de La Baume), she is locked away in her large beautiful home watching an old B&W romance. She’s lonely and craves affection, but her affliction of being a vampire doesn’t offer many opportunities to meet the dashing male she is looking for. But as her luck would have it, a trip to the video store has Djuna coming face to face with her true love Paolo (Milo Ventimigilia), a screenwriter who has come to town to get away and work on his current project. The two are instantly attracted to one another, but Djuna does all she can to keep Paolo at a distance, afraid of what he may think of her and the harm she may cause. But he’s persistent, and in the heat of passion she takes a bite and changes him.
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by J C on September 5th, 2013
“You’d be surprised what powerful people can get away with behind closed doors.”
Viewers experiencing cop/lawyer/doctor show fatigue might be happy to learn the hottest job on TV these days appears to be “fixer.” Of course, the sneaky appeal of shows centered on these professional problem solvers is that they actually combine elements of cop and lawyer dramas; the fun twist is that the fixer’s job often requires them to prevent crimes from being solved. Before Ray Donovan became a hit for Showtime this summer, the second season of Scandal transformed the nighttime soap into ABC’s buzziest drama.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 4th, 2013
"Something happens at around 92 miles an hour -- thunder-headers drown out all sound, engine vibrations travels at a heart's rate, field of vision funnels into the immediate, and suddenly you're not on the road, you're in it. A part of it. Traffic, scenery, cops - just cardboard cutouts blowing over as you past. Sometimes I forget the rush of that. That's why I love these long runs. All your problems, all the noise, gone. Nothing else to worry about except what's right in front of you. Maybe that's the lesson for me today, to hold on to these simple moments."
There's nothing simple about Sons Of Anarchy. But there are some moments that will cause you to hold on... for dear life.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 4th, 2013
"When the world goes to Hell How will you survive?"
The first thing you should know about The Walking Dead is that it's unlike any television series you have ever seen before. The images here are intense, and the crew has been given a blank check to create this vision without the burden of censors looking over their shoulders. There are plenty of blood-and-gore effects that rival any of the Hollywood zombie films you've seen in the last few years. The makeup effects are handled by the very capable hands of KNB and supervised personally by Greg Nicotero (the N from KNB). KNB isn't treating this like a television production, and while I personally get tired of the cliché about making a movie each week, this one lives up to the hype. They aren't doing anything different here than they would do for a big-budget film. The zombies look incredible, and the effects are completely first-rate.
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Jeremy Butler on September 4th, 2013
This is just personal habit of mine, but whenever I’m done watching a comedy special that features more than one comedian, instinctively I arrange them all in my head from least to greatest: In the case of The Original Kings of Comedy: Bernie Mac, Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley; Blue Collar Comedy Tour: Ron White, Larry the Cable Guy, Jeff Foxworthy, and Bill Engvall; and in the case of Women Who Kill: Amy Schumer, Marina Franklin, Nikki Glaser, and Rachel Feinstein.
Amy Schumer is first up at bat with a raunchy set that covers everything from old people, interracial relations, religion, to being set up. Schumer is quick-witted, full of quips, and she does a great job of interacting up with the crowd; the downside is she rifles through every subject too rapidly, and a few of her quips get lost in the shuffle.
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Jeremy Butler on September 4th, 2013
The shoe is on the other foot in the Donald Faison and Eve Amurri Martino-led raunchy comedy, Stag. Curious enough, for being the supposed co-leads of the movie, the focus of the film is on them less than half of its duration; Stag is basically about the background characters. The only issue with that is the background characters aren't really all that interesting when you get right down to it.
Ken (Donald Faison, The Exes) is revered by his friends as the king of pranks. Every time one of his friends is about to get married, as part of tradition he pulls a legendary prank at his would-be victim’s (the groom-to-be) stag party; everything from getting them blackout drunk and putting them in ring with a boxer to getting them black-out drunk, stuffing them in a shipping box and shipping them first class. Now it is his turn to take the plunge and his friends are thinking vengeance is theirs, and Ken is on the edge of his seat in anticipation of what they may do to him.
Posted in: No Huddle Reviews by Jeremy Butler on September 3rd, 2013
“Let me tell you what it’s going to be like. Irish girl, English jail. Every time you want to see your boy, every time he wants to see you, his grandma’s gonna have to load him onto the ferry and drive 400 miles. It’s gonna break his f***in heart.”
Which is stronger, the bonds of family loyalty or self-preservation? That is the question that is presented in Shadow Dancer, the espionage thriller starring Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough. I had high hopes for this film when I picked it up; I was expecting an unpredictable and suspenseful thriller that I would not be able to take my eyes away from. What I got was…well let’s just say I had no trouble prying my eyes away.
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