Author: Alabama Liberal

See this film… What Works: It takes a standard vigilante thriller premise (Hugh Jackman is the slightly paranoid, survivalist dad whose worst fears come true when his daughter goes missing, and he fears Paul Dano’s mentally handicapped creep is a child molester who has her somewhere) and flips it on its head by having Jackman’s…

I have no idea if I liked this movie, didn’t like it, whether it worked or not, if I should leave thinking sex addiction is awful or just a mild bump in the light-comedy road. I really am not sure how I feel about this film and I think that speaks to the mixed-blessings it…

Calling this a disappointment would be misleading since I never suspected this film would be good. What Works: The film keeps morphing from a survival tale on an alien world (in the first 15 to 20 minutes) to a bounty-hunters-after-Riddick neo-Western to a monsters-attack-Aliens-knock-off. I’ll let you guess which two of those three works best….

There will be some more current reviews later today, but I had put off reviewing this lackluster comedy for weeks and decided to dive into it now… What Works: I wish I could say the idea of an end-of-the-world comedy is inspired but this is the fourth end-of-the-world comedy in only the summer (It’s a Disaster, Rapture-palooza, and the…