Category: Mindless Mondays

This review kicks off a day of true quality, as I’ll be reviewing four independent movies (this, A Dangerous Method, Young Adult, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) only in limited release. So for once I’ll be ahead of the curve in seeing movies before most of America does…but, then again, I doubt most of America…

Unlike all of the other movies I’m reviewing today, this one is still in (very few) theaters. It will be a couple months before anyone can rent it but I would really recommend that. I think this is the kind-of movie that plays best at home for four or five bucks instead of in a…

Another one for the scrap heap. And by that I mean that Bellflower technically came out months ago (I believe it first went into very limited release in early August) but I only now caught up with it On Demand. Bellflower is a bit different than The Dilemma or Super or Last Night in that…

A straight turd from January of this year that I never actually saw until it showed up on HBO last week. So I killed two hours and held my nose to watch it. What Works: Some of Vince Vaughn’s fantasy sequences as he’s lying really work. They snap the movie out of its formulaic rhythms…

Like Last Night, this was an independent movie released much earlier in the year but I just never got around to reviewing it until now. Back in the very first weeks of the site’s history, I felt like it was a waste of time to do more than two movie reviews a week as no…

Today I’m getting some movies out of the way that I might have watched a long time ago. For whatever reason, I either thought the movies needed more time to marinate or I thought holding them for a bit would be better. In all cases, neither of those things turned out to be true. First,…

Like all the best kid’s films, Hugo isn’t really for kids. To say it’s the best movie ever made about an orphan and a forgotten director in a Parisian train station is probably an understatement. Of all the movies I’m reviewing today, this is without a doubt the one I would recommend, and yet Hugo…

That title is either a threat or a promise depending on who you are, and for me it’s most definitely a threat. I’ve been as patient as anyone possibly could be with the Twilight films (I actually liked parts of the first and third ones) but this fourth installment is a real turd. So far,…

I have no idea what the actual title for The Muppets movie I saw this weekend is, but I know it involves them and opened on Thanksgiving so that’s close enough. This movie defied my expectations by not sucking. I know that sounds like a hell of a backhanded compliment, and is, but I found…

Of the three family friendly movies that opened on Thanksgiving weekend, this one is by far the weakest. That’s not necessarily as bad as it sounds (I would take this movie over Jack and Jill and Twilight any day) but it’s still not a good thing either. What Works: The whole idea of a technologically…