Please Disperse

Fanboys
Has anyone heard of this movie?
“You ‘dis the Fett again and I will cornhole you with a lightsaber”
and for the record, I am now telling people that I am a white Billy Dee Williams.

Killshot
Mickey Rourke is great at playing a scumbag.
Diane Lane is so amazingly hot.
A decent action flick with a nice substory about a couple falling back in love.
Not a bad movie. Not outwardly offensive. And I’m always happy to have an excuse to look at Rosario Dawson.

Powder Blue
Patrick Swayze is creepy in Silence of the Lambs the Jaime Gumm sort of creepy.
But Jessica Biel might have the best bottom in Hollywood. If for no reason other than seeing all of her, watch this movie. Jessica Biel and Marisa Tomei, both naked as strippers in one year.
It’s a [...]

Tyson
He’s certainly a complex character. His life is a modern tragedy, and in watching the interviews with him, you can almost hear the voices in his head.
I lived for a couple of years not far from Brownsville, Brooklyn. Tyson grew up in one of the shittiest parts of New York, and it’s [...]

Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Two redeeming qualities of this film:

Jayma Mays, who reminds me how much I like Anna Farris.
Survivor’s I Can’t Hold Back (actually, the entire soundtrack, some of the cast, and the better jokes are all typical of the Adam Sandler genre, who’s production company is responsible for producing this turd.)

There are [...]

What Doesn’t Kill You
I hadn’t heard anything about this when it came out. I completely missed it coming to theaters. Equally, even though I grew up in New England I had never heard of this story (armored car robbery and apparently a bunch of press about it.)
I’m a big fan [...]

Valkyrie
It takes me a while to view films. As many of you know, I refuse to go to the cinema. I’m pretty happy with my home cinema setup, and believe that it provides a better way to see films than a crowded super-megaplex. (although I am a member at the jacob [...]

City of Ember
I don’t generally watch films that aren’t rated R, and I watch kids movies even less frequently. But this one was exceptional.
A surprising cast (Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Landau) and a story I hadn’t heard mention of before made for a very pleasant flick. Cut [...]

Pride and Glory
Edward Norton jumped the shark with this one. His acting is strained and lacks any real emotional depth. Colin Farrell is his usual douchebag self (which comes naturally to him, I’m sure.)
It’s a basic cop story. A good cop, a bad cop, some drunks, some killing. It’s disappointing [...]

Synecdoche, New York
This film came incredibly well received (Golden Palm nomination at Cannes, Independent Spirit Award, LAFCA, Austin Film Critics Award ) with a phenomenal cast (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, Michelle Williams, Dianne Wiest, Emily Watson) and gave me a headache. I’m sure this was [...]