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It’s time for another edition of Donnie Darko for home media consumption. There has been a previous couple DVD releases, followed by a Blu-ray release back in 2009. Now we have the four-disc set, dubbed the “10th Anniversary Edition”, which features the same Blu-ray set, but also includes the original DVD, as well as a […]
Source Code stars Jake Gyllenhaal who is one of my favorite actors, and whose name I am unable to spell correctly. I can never remember how many l’s and a’s there are and my goal for this review is to spell it correctly throughout. Up until recently I thought that Gyllenhaal was about 20 years […]
If Hitchcock, Agatha Christie, and Philip K. Dick walked into a bar, they could come up with the plot for Source Code, a cracking new thriller, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a time constricted helicopter pilot and directed by Duncan Jones, who previously made the great, sci-fi sleeper – Moon. The film works as a high […]
I’m not sure who I heard it from, but I heard some negative things about Love & Other Drugs. I had heard it was a cookie cutter chick flick where someone was sick and probably spent the movie dying. This couldn’t have been further from the truth. Love & Other Drugs may be a chick flick, but […]
Love and Other Drugs is a simple romantic comedy-drama that tries to break away from its simple mold by having deeper parts of a story to explore as well as a hard R-rating. Despite these elements, the film has problems with breaking away from the traditional formula along with balancing its tone. Fortunately, both Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway bring enough talent to the film to keep it entertaining and sold on its performances. These two make a good pair and do the film a service. Still, the movie is fairly forgettable when all is said and done, because nothing much happens to create something more meaningful.
I was very happy to get this movie to review as I had missed it in the theaters and I was excited to see what Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney could do after their last swashbuckling effort resulted in the Pirates of the Caribbean series which I loved. You see, I have a serious weakness for […]
I love talking about this film. Anytime I can talk about the lovely Gemma Arterton, I’m a happy man. And she looks absolutely stunning in Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time…and the movie wasn’t bad either (insert smile). So it gives me great pleasure to announce that Disney has set a September 14th […]
Jake Gyllenhaal stars alongside the beautiful Gemma Arterton as well as acting legend Ben Kingsley, in the Mike Newell, Jerry Bruckheimer produced video game adaptation. And of course you can’t forget Alfred Molina, who got his start in swashbucklers like this, playing Satipo in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Is Prince of Persia the new […]
Gemma More! Give me more Gemma Arterton that is. I know that’s a pretty lame attempt at humor, but it works for me. Gerard is probably rolling his eyes right now reading this. Ha ha. My exploitation of Gemma Arterton continues with the upcoming Disney release of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The […]
Here’s one I unfortunately did not catch in the theaters, but our Gregg Senko did. Brothers comes highly recommended from him (see here), so I think I will give it a try the second time around on the Blu-ray format. Just my luck as Lionsgate has announced a March 23rd release date for the film […]
With an all-star cast of Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman and Jake Gyllenhaal, how can you go wrong? Well, let’s stop right there because Everybody’s Fine sported the likes of Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale and Drew Barrymore and that movie was a sloth-like downer. Fortunately, the same does not hold true for Brothers which made […]
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