Posts Tagged ‘the’
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight. Wow. Just… wow. It’s amazing. It’s the best Batman film ever, the best superhero film ever, and it’s one of the best crime films I’ve seen to date. It’s just freaking brilliant. Ledger as The Joker was terrifically terrifying, hilarious and astounding. I’ve seen the film twice now, and the second time around I spent ages just staring at his face trying to find Heath Ledger in there – but all I could see was The Joker.
Mini-Reviews
Get Smart
2.5/5
Fairly entertaining but not funny enough.
The Happening
0/5
Shit sandwich.
Gone Baby Gone
4/5
Really interesting mystery/drama starring Casey Affleck. Well worth checking out.
Ed Wood
4/5
Hilarious b&w biopic about the universally accepted Worst Director of All Time, Edward D. Wood Jr. Johnny Depp stars and it’s directed by Tim Burton.
Planet Terror
4/5
Modern schlock horror at its bloody best.
Layer Cake
3.5/5
Great british crime film, starring Daniel Craig.
A Scanner Darkly
4/5
Disturbing story of drug addicts and an undercover cop in the near future. Uses rotoscoping animation technique to create a shifting, hallucinatory vision of addiction.
Doomsday
1/5
Neil Marshall’s third film (after Dog Soldiers and The Descent) is about a viral outbreak in the UK. It is really stupid.
I’m a Llama Farmer
Albert Hammond Jr.’s new album, Como Te Llama, has been leaked. I’ve got it, and my initial impression of it is fairly positive. Same tone as Yours To Keep, same production style – clean and crisp – and it seems to be of the same quality. I’ve been listening to it as I ramble around the internets tonight and it’s been incredibly easy to listen to, without completely fading into the background.
I love The Strokes and I consider their first two albums to be modern pop masterpieces. AHJ’s first album was a hair’s breadth away from them in terms of brilliance, and his second sounds like it could well be on that same level.
What’s Going On?
The Happening sucks. It sucks HUUUGE sweaty balls. It’s without a doubt the worst movie of the year, and possibly of the decade. It was unintentionally hilarious in it’s poorly scripted, ham-acted idiocy. Do not pay money for this unless you enjoy mocking shite films in a public arena.
In-descent
I said I was going to watch and review 3 horror movies, so here, in all its glory, is my review of The Descent (2005). The Descent is a British horror film and was written and directed by Neil Marshall, the man responsible for 2002’s camp, over-the-top werewolf outing Dog Soldiers.
