I need to start watching more new (to me) movies, but work and the relentless TV schedule just keeps bogging me down. Oh well. I promise you, next Capsule Review will come much sooner and have much more than this ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been a long time since my last one of these. It's been mostly filled with watching a lot of TV and working, but I'm getting back to watching movies. As for TV, every one of you should be watching Terriers and Rubicon. Those are the two best new shows out there. Lone Star would be on the list, but it's already been cancelled. Whoops ( Read more... )

Well, I got a part time job tutoring. Not really what I want to be doing, but it pays pretty well, and it's something to do while I look for something more permanent. As usual, if you have any leads on things I should be doing, I'm all ears. Let's get to the movies ( Read more... )

Try making any feature length movie for $7000. Then try making a believable science fiction feature length shot on film for $7000. Good luck, right? Well that's exactly what writer/director/actor/composer/producer/etc. Shane Carruth did in his debut feature PRIMER ( Read more... )

Some people talk about how memory and nostalgia make bad events seem better as time goes on, but it also happens to make good events, great evens even, even better, even just days after the fact. Is it the same for you? Maybe it just takes the brain a week or so to make sense of it completely, but that's probably BS. I'm going to say it is. Movie ( Read more... )

GIGANTIC (2009) **1/2 ( Read more... )

O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000 ( Read more... )

TOY STORY 3 (2010) ****1/2 ( Read more... )

Released to cries of "too soon!" and "money grab!", Paul Greengrass' masterpiece UNITED 93 seemed doomed from the start to be some heavyhanded film that was worse than controversial, but actually just boring. To everyone's surprise, that movie turned out to be Oliver Stone's WORLD TRADE CENTER, released later that summer. UNITED 93, however, is, ( Read more... )

BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (2010) ***1/2 ( Read more... )