Review: Green Zone DVD

Alright, so we know what you’re thinking: Another cookie-cutter Iraq war movie. Explosions, guns, tension, half-baked and loosely interwoven love story, helicopters crashing, Matt Damon. But, hold the phone! We are quite happy (and pleasantly surprised!) to report that director Paul Greengrass’ latest offering, Green Zone, (inspired by Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s novel Imperial Life in the Emerald City) only...

Review: Jonah Hex

Jonah Hex is a movie adaptation of the graphic novel by DC comics by the same name. On paper it seems to have a lot of ingredients to a fun summer action blockbuster. I know a few people who are even excited to check it out. What’s the worst that could happen? It’s a hard rock western tale of revenge with lots of explosions and a seasoned cast. What could go wrong? Well, unfortunately everything went wrong....

Review: Harry Brown – The British Bronson

Comparisons to Clint Eastwood's turn in Gran Torino will obviously be leveled at Harry Brown, both films being old-dudes-out-for-justice thrillers, but I think it bears far more similarities to Charles Bronson's Death Wish movies than Torino. Eastwood's project is far more layered and bites off a lot more in terms of subject matter - issues of race, abandonment, and a father-son element between Eastwood's character and his young neighbor are all dealt with varying degrees of success. Harry Brown, on the other hand, is a much more straight-ahead affair.

Inappropriately Golden

Josh Cooley out of California does a lot of drawing. He does it for his job as a story artist but clearly also for pleasure too. Up on his blog he has a few fun series going on. One of my favorite is his Inapropriate Golden Books – a play on the Little Golden Books published for children, but with a mash-up of inappropriately non-kid-friendly movie material mixed in for good measure. Unfortunately his blog...

Movies in Frames

Check out this Tumblr blog; Movies in Frames. It aims to distill movies to four-frame summaries. The results can actually be pretty effective commentary on the movie, not needing any supplementary text. As they put it; “One movie – four frames. That’s...