In the near future helicopter pilot Arnold Schwarzenegger takes on an illegal cloning conspiracy and encounters his own Doppelgänger, with whom he eventually teams up. Despite the film’s flaws (especially its failed attempts at comic relief), it’s apparent that some … Continue reading
Jeff Bridges is a small-town divorced dad with not much money who fears losing the love and respect of his son, who lives with his mother and her second husband, who isn’t just rich but also a really nice guy. … Continue reading
Cowriter Joss Whedon and writer-director Drew Goddard send a group of college students to a cabin in the woods, where they encounter horror (but not misunderstood hillbillies). For mysterious reasons everything the students do is being monitored and even to … Continue reading
A group of college students go to the woods for a weekend and encounter a couple of strange and menacing hillbillies, or so they think. Actually the hillbillies are nice guys who just manage not to make a good first … Continue reading
The trailer and clips I saw on YouTube piqued my interest, but Netflix had never heard of it, nor had any of my usual on-line sources of DVDs. I came close to seeing it on HBO at a hotel last … Continue reading
After watching this I wondered what the sequel might be called. Let the Left One In, maybe? Or perhaps it should be a trilogy, with the latter two titled Let the Right One Out and Let the Right One In … Continue reading
Writer-director Michel Hazanvicius and actors Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo of OSS 177: Cairo, Nest of Spies are back, this time in a film set in the late 1920s and early 1930s. And once again Hazanavicius uses cinematic techniques appropriate … Continue reading
Three years after the frequently hilarious OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, director Michel Hazanavicius and star Jean Dujardin return with a sequel (released in French as OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus — Rio is no longer answering) that … Continue reading
Here’s a quite funny spy film parody from the director and stars of the Oscar-winning The Artist. In 1949 a French writer named Jean Bruce launched a series of spy novels about an American of French descent named Hubert Bonisseur … Continue reading
Movies often come in accidental clusters, and in 2010 we got two computer-animated films with supervillains as protagonists, namely Despicable Me (reviewed previously) and Megamind. Aside from that basic germ of an idea, the films are quite different, and both … Continue reading