Tag: Joshua Blackman
[FILM: Review] In Time
In Time
Opens October 27
***
There’s a fascinating premise at the centre of this scatterbrained sci-fi, in which people stop ageing at 25 and have to “earn” time in order to stay alive. Whether or not it’s ripped off Harlan Ellison’s 1965 short story ‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman, Gattaca writer-director Andrew Niccol does a fine job [...]
Posted: November 7th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 436 (October 31), Film Reviews.
Tags: In Time, Joshua Blackman, The Brag
[FILM: Review] Drive
Drive
Released October 27
****1/2
Americans, apparently, will sue you for anything. That’s what’s confronting the distributors of Drive, who are being sued by a short-sighted Michigan woman who claims that the film’s high-octane trailer promised a Fast and the Furious-style thriller. As ludicrous as this is, the trailer for Drive did play up the third act violence [...]
Posted: October 31st, 2011 under Arts, Brag 435 (October 24), Film Reviews.
Tags: Drive, Joshua Blackman, The Brag
[FILM: Review] Midnight In Paris
Midnight In Paris
Released October 20
****1/2
Woody Allen is one of the giants of cinema, and at 75 seems to show no signs of slowing down. Midnight in Paris sees him, if not with a new bag of tricks, at least with a freshness and verve that’s only sometimes present in his new millennium work. It contains [...]
Posted: October 24th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 434 (October 17), Film Reviews.
Tags: Joshua Blackman, Midnight In Paris, The Brag
[FILM: Review] 13 Assassins
13 Assassins
Opens September 8
****1/2
Sick of transforming robots, grumpy apes and patriotic heroes? Prefer stylish swordplay to a jumbled mess of incoherent CGI? Seek out 13 Assassins, a violent samurai epic from Japanese director Takashi Miike. Best known in the West for shockers like Audition and Ichi the Killer, Miike is so prolific that Assassins [...]
Posted: September 12th, 2011 under Arts, Film Reviews.
Tags: 13 Assassins, Joshua Blackman, The Brag
[FILM: Review] The Help
The Help
Released September 1
****
What The Help is not – as if the gooey trailers implied otherwise – is a complex, gritty film about race. What it is is a finely performed bit of melodrama, with nuanced enough characters to elevate a potentially hokey, caricatured script.
Based on Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 bestseller, The Help is a [...]
Posted: September 5th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 427 (August 27), Film Reviews.
Tags: Bryce Dallas Howard, Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, Joshua Blackman, Octavia Spencer, The Brag, The Help, Viola Davis