MOVIE REVIEW – “RAIDING THE LOST ARK: A FILMUMENTARY”
Movie Guy Justin Bowler fills Indiana Jones fans in on an inventive new feature-length documentary about “Raiders of the Lost Ark” that’s available for free on Vimeo.
Reviews
MOVIE REVIEW – EVIL DEAD
The demon-speeding-through-the-woods shots that we’ve come to love in the original are still in tact and still effective.
NEW ON DVD – THIS IS 40
“This is 40” is a return to the same kind of foul-mouthed-with-a-heart-of-gold comedies that make up the best of the Apatow catalog.
DOCUARY: 31 DOCS IN 31 DAYS – PART TEN
The final entry of documentary reviews from Chris MacKenzie’s whirlwind trip through docs on Netflix. Part Ten: “The Final Member”, “Whore’s Glory”, “Paper Clips”, “The Hollywood Complex” and, yes, “Katy Perry: Part of Me”
MOVIE REVIEW – “THE LAST EXORCISM, PART II”
Kerr Lordygan reviews another horror film for themovieguys.net, continuing his “From the Dark Side” series. This time out, he reviews the new release “The Last Exorcism, Part II”
INDIE REPORT – FLY AWAY
Kerr Lordygan reviews the indie film “Fly Away”, and gives Ashley Rickards huge props for her lead performance.
DOC-UARY: 31 DOCS IN 31 DAYS – PART NINE
Our guest columnist Chris MacKenzie stays on target – Part nine of a ten part look at the films he saw every day in January. Today – “Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone”, “Occupy Unmasked” and “The Billionaires’ Tea Party”
DOC-UARY: 31 DOCS IN 31 DAYS – PART EIGHT
You can’t stop our guest columnist Chris MacKenzie, you can only contain him. It’s Part EIGHT of 31 Docs in 31 Days, as Chris reviews “The Sound and the Fury”, “The Tents” and “How Beer Saved the World”.
DOC-UARY: 31 DOCS IN 31 DAYS – PART SEVEN
Guest columnist Chris MacKenzie continues doling out the Shaky Camera Lens ratings to thirty-one documentaries on NetFlix. Part Seven covers “Dreams of a Life”, “I Like Killing Flies” and “Between the Folds”
DOC-UARY: 31 DOCS IN 31 DAYS – PART SIX
Our guest columnist Chris MacKenzie continues to scour NetFlix for documentaries. This week, two ESPN “30 for 30” docs and “Winnebago Man”
DOC-UARY: 31 DOCS IN 31 DAYS – PART FIVE
Our guest columnist watches “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia”, “The Eames” and “Wasteland” for this 10-part documentary series. Well, sort of. He finally fell asleep during one film. Read on…
DOC-UARY: 31 DOCS IN 31 DAYS – PART FOUR
Our guest columnist Chris MacKenzie weighs in with another report from how he spent is January – watching a documentary EVERY DAY. Today’s capsule reviews include “The Weather Underground”, “El Bulli” and “The Antics Roadshow”
DOC-UARY: 31 DOCS IN 31 DAYS – PART THREE
Chris MacKenzie continues his month-long tear through documentaries on NetFlix. This week’s offerings are serious – “Crossing the Line”, “Herb and Dorothy” and “Forgiving Dr. Mengele”
DOC-UARY: 31 DOCS IN 31 DAYS – PART TWO
Chris MacKenzie continues his doc-a-day challenge, reviewing “Marwencol”, “The Ambassador” and “Almost Elvis”
DOC-UARY: 31 DOCS IN 31 DAYS – PART ONE
Our guest columnist Chris MacKenzie watched a documentary a day in January. He reports on the great non-fiction films he saw in PART ONE of a ten-part series.
INDIE REPORT – THE UNDERSTUDY
A Greek Drama all dressed up like a Black Comedy (No, not the Tyler Perry kind, the other kind of black comedy).
MOVIE REVIEW – “RED DAWN”
Not as much fun as a pageant of big-breasted women.
MOVIE REVIEW – “FLIGHT”
A **** Yuppie Movie Review from guest columnist Chad “Chad” Elkington
MOVIE REVIEW – FINDING NEMO 3D
I’m the first to get cynical when it comes to 3D re-issues, reboots, remakes and all that. But Pixar movies are timeless, and I think should be back in theaters every five years or so, 3D or not.
MOVIE REVIEW – RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
Is this the best movie ever made? Well, the great thing about movies is that arguing what the best one of all time is can keep you arguing until you pass out. But this is certainly my favorite, hands down.
MOVIE REVIEW – THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN
“The Odd Life of Timothy Green” is about a sterile couple, so…start getting excited.
MOVIE REVIEW – LAWLESS
This film plays out like a quality western without the old west.
MOVIE REVIEW – HOPE SPRINGS
Prepare for old people sex. Meryl moaning, crotch shots of Tommy Lee Jones. Just don’t say I didn’t prepare you.
INDIE REPORT – SEX, DRUGS AND COMEDY
Every documentary has an ideal audience that would benefit most from it’s messages. Here, that audience would be young adults who are thinking of going into stand up comedy (yes, there are people in this world who are thinking of doing that somewhere).
MOVIE REVIEW – TED
On the whole, I can recommend “Ted”. There are a ton of good laughs and if you’re a “Family Guy” fan, the faithful were out at the screening I went to and it was a huge crowd-pleaser.
MOVIE REVIEW – BRAVE
After “Cars 2”, it’s good to know that some of Hollywood’s best filmmakers can pick themselves up and dust themselves off so quickly.
MOVIE REVIEW – ROCK OF AGES
This film immediately felt like someone’s wacky remembrance of what they heard the ‘80s were like, instead of a portrait of how they were, told by people who were there.
MOVIE REVIEW – PROMETHEUS
This movie is a perfect example of what happens when no one’s career is actually on the line.
INDIE REPORT – 6 MONTH RULE
Writer, Blayne Weaver, has created an endearing script, that is charmingly portrayed by actor Blayne Weaver, and solidly executed by director Blayne Weaver.
MOVIE REVIEW – SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
It’s an interesting concept to see the original world the Brothers’ Grimm imagined up on the screen, but it’s coupled with dialogue that’s not very special and devoid of any real charisma.
MOVIE REVIEW – BATTLESHIP
I’m going to attempt something never done before, and something that should not be done without supervision. I’m going to reference Shakespeare when speaking of “Battleship”, but this movie was a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
MOVIE REVIEW – THE DICTATOR
I think Cohen’s opened and closed the door on terrorist comedies in one fell swoop.
MOVIE REVIEW – DARK SHADOWS
Tim Burton only makes Tim Burton movies, so whatever the original source material, in the end, it’ll get turned into a Tim Burton movie.
MOVIE REVIEW – THE AVENGERS
The word “Epic” gets thrown around a little too much today. It’s used to describe parties and tweets, but this movie in the true sense, is epic.
MOVIE REVIEW – JOHN CARTER
Really, how hard was it to understand this film people? I know the trailers made it look like a mindless action flick, but it’s not. I’m sorry you couldn’t waltz in 10-minutes late with your face full of popcorn and your butter-stained fingers endlessly fumbling over your cell phone, and not be able to figure out what’s going on. It’s called attention. If you pay it, you’ll get it.
MOVIE REVIEW – MONEYBALL – NEW ON BLU-RAY, DVD & STREAMING
This film taught me one very important thing….. Art Howe is evil. Really evil.
MOVIE REVIEW – JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
Mr. Caine, you lead me astray, you dirty rotten scoundrel!
MOVIE REVIEW – THE TREE OF LIFE – NEW ON BLU-RAY, DVD & STREAMING
The most frustrating thing about this film is that inside this confusing movie is a very good movie trying to get out.
MOVIE REVIEW – RED TAILS
With a thumping dub-step soundtrack, planes performing harrowing maneuvers, and requisite nasty enemies (Nazis, in this case), the trailers for “Red Tails” have clearly been geared to pump up visceral excitement in (likely) largely young and male audiences.
THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE – NEW ON BLU-RAY, DVD & STREAMING
A flashy feature film entrance for the excellent Dominic Cooper but lacks real punch due to sparse story-induced character introspection. A good rental if you’ve seen everything else at the Redbox.