Rating the Nominees, Group 7, #10
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Film Preview: He Was a Quiet Man (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: The poster’s quiet and simple. It uses muted colors to hide the people in the life of the lead character who holds the bomb that could destroy his own destiny. The poster is…
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Film Preview: The Accidental Husband (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: Uma Thurman hasn’t been able to sell a film she’s been a part of since Kill Bill. Her appearance in My Super Ex-Girlfriend was a joke and that she takes center position on…
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Film Preview: Day Zero (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section will be updated. Trailer Rating: C+ Review: The film suggests Vietnam is over. It looks…
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Film Preview: Caramel (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: Completely masking the film’s subject by making the movie look like it’s either A) a film about brothels or B) a sequel to Chocolat. Neither assessment fits. The colors are pleasant enough, but…
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Film Preview: Never Back Down (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+ Review: Taking on the imbalanced style of more interesting posters like Shoot ‘Em Up and Cassandra’s Dream, this poster has a good blend of colors and mixture of images, each one likely to bring…
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Film Preview: The Hottie and the Nottie (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: D+ Review: This Superstar-colored poster tries to capitalize on Paris Hilton’s waifish-thin looks while featuring the film’s other titular comparison. It’s a rather repulsive idea much like the trailer. Trailer Rating: D+ Review: Dreadfully ugly,…
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The DVD Report #36
Inexplicably lost among the summer blockbusters, Stardust rightfully won the Phoenix Film Critics Society Award as the most overlooked film of 2007. Judging its DVD sales numbers, it could also emerge as the most overlooked DVD of 2007-2008. Directed by Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake), this rollicking adventure is worth all the year’s blockbusters and sequels…
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Film Preview: Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: I’ve never been a fan of this style of comic art and this one in particular says nothing about the plot of the film and is more likely aimed at fanboys who might…
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Film Preview: Planet B-Boy (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: This poster is so extremely cluttered that it takes several seconds to realize what it’s even about and that its subject is a breakdancing competition is even farther from representative as it looks…
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Film Preview: Billy the Kid (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: The poster suggests a film in the vein of Control about a young musician perhaps coming up from hard times. This isn’t far from the truth of the film, but it is a…
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2007 Year in (p)Review
Marking my first year in the trailer review business, I spent a great deal of time praising and panning over 450 trailers from 386 films and more than 400 posters from 350 pictures. Looking back at the best trailers and posters of 2007, here are the best along with a few words on each plus…
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2008 Year in Review
The Best | The Worst | The Individual Best The Best Every time I hear someone referring to this year or that year as the “worst this decade” or “the most dismal year in film history”, I wonder how they measure a great year versus a bad year. Did they not give out enough four-star…
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2007 Year in Review
The Best | The Worst | The Individual Best The Best 2007 started out as perhaps one of the worst film years in some time. Only Bridge to Terabithia managed to earn a 4-star rating until the very end of the year when I finally saw Away from Her. It snowballed in the last two…
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The DVD Report #35
A traditional way to start the New Year is to review the prior year’s best, so without ado, here is my ten best list of DVD releases for 2007. 1. Ford at Fox. A massive 24-film set including: Pilgrimage, The Prisoner of Shark Island, Young Mr. Lincoln, Drums Along the Mohawk, The Grapes of Wrath,…
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The DVD Report #34
Merry Christmas to all! And to all a good movie on DVD! With the opening of Tim Burton’s film version of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd this past weekend, it’s time for my third and final dissertation on the evolution of the movie musical. I left off in 1978 with the dismal screen adaptation of another…
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