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Kells DVD Oct. 5, 2010
There's no way I can recommend this movie to anyone much beyond the Tooth Fairy Believement Age, but I must testify it's pleasant and inoffensive, although the violence in the hockey games seems out of place. - Roger Ebert
The movie, based on a novel by Rick Riordan, has fun working out modern parallels for Greek mythology. Percy, for example, thinks he is dyslexic, but it's only that his eyes instinctively turn English into Greek letters. That's no help in class. After learning of his real identity, he goes off to Chiron's demigod training camp with Grover (Brandon T. Jackson), who is revealed as a sort of assistant demigod assigned to watch over him, and he becomes friends with Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario), a demi-goddess if ever I've seen one. Director Chris Columbus has fun with this goofy premise.-Roger Ebert
Most of the film involves terrifying battles between mortals and special effects. I like this kind of stuff. I don't say it's good cinema, although I recognize the craftsmanship that went into it. I don't say it's good acting, when the men have so much facial hair they all look like Liam Neeson. I like the energy, the imagination, the silliness. I even like the one guy who doesn't have a beard. That's Perseus. So do I recommend the movie? Yes, if you intuit that this review is affectionate and have the same tolerance for goofy Greek gods as I do.- Roger Ebert
The gods of classical mythology have always been selfish and capricious, but in a tempestuous, grand, passionate style, sort of like “Dallas” in heaven. In the new Clash of the Titans, the gods are about as grand and passionate as “The Simpsons,” and not a tenth as interesting.- The original Clash of the Titans marked the end of an era. Highlighted by the Ray Harryhausen stop-motion creature effects that had graced the likes of The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts, the 1981 epic was a throwback to that earlier breed of film, and (but for a few bits of quasi-classical nudity) could easily have been made a decade or two earlier. The remake is violent, joyless, humorless and unmagical. Steven Greydanus
Oceans DVD October 19, 2010 (Can't Get it Underneath the Picture)................................................
Iron Man DVD September 28, 2010
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Another Great Entry in the Pixar Trilogy
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has given us what is surely the first-ever supernatural action-comedy-romance popcorn movie based on a classic Mickey Mouse cartoon. I’m trying to think what even unlikelier source material he might turn to next.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice gets right almost everything that Prince of Persia got wrong. It’s nonsense, but it’s entertaining nonsense, just like Prince of Persia wasn’t. The stars are charismatic and likable, and the romantic leads have real chemistry. The special effects are visually splendid. Alfred Molina, the best thing in both movies, gets to be the big bad guy instead of a minor supporting character.
- Steven Greydanus
OTHER INTERESTING LOOKING FILMS
Saw the othrer films in the series
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (The Twilight Saga: New Mooon ON DVD)
Cats and Dogs the Revenge of Kitty Galore
Nanny McFee Returns
9/24 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
11/5 Due Date
Blooger is not the best for posting lots of pictures, my poster got moved to the bottom and I can't easily move it back again to the place where I want it. So Here it stays
It wasn't as mind blowing as I had hoped but still good. Would have to see again on video to appreciate it more.
Inception feels like the culmination of Nolan’s career to date. Watching this, it’s almost as if everything else I’ve seen from him, from Memento to The Dark Knight, was preparation. The success of The Dark Knight paved the way for Nolan to go anywhere he wanted. With Inception, he’s way out in front, confidently blazing a trail into new territory that’s all the more exhilarating in a movie year when Hollywood seems to have lost its way. -By Steven D. Greydanus
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