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The Girl Who was More Interesting than Anyone Else in the Story
Why should anyone care about Mikael Blomkvist when Lisbeth Salander is around?
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Kick-Ass review
I was probably destined to either love or hate Kick-Ass. On the one hand, I have a great fondness for superheroes. On the other, I have a great annoyance with the oversaturation of superheroes. On the one hand, I have absolutely no interest in anything Mark Millar writes. (Exception: I’ve heard his Swamp Thing was…
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Help! Save me!
In Knight & Day, a normal woman meets a man who’s some kind of crazy secret agent, and she gets dragged along on his adventures. I’ve seen the trailer four or five times now, and not once have I had even the slightest interest in seeing the film. It’s not just Tom Cruise, though he…
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Let the Remake in?
I have a general mistrust of Hollywood remakes of foreign films, and I’m particularly aghast at the thought of someone re-making Let the Right One In, one of the best vampire movies ever made and a pretty damn fine piece of cinema in general. But I’ve got to admit: I really like the poster. Chloe…
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Is there any patriotism left over for the Genies?
So it turns out the Olympics were a pretty big deal for Canadians. I may have been skeptical, but I can appreciate some of the excitement; whatever your feelings may be on commercialization and costs, it’s nice that so many people can get behind athletes who’ve trained for their entire lives to be good at…
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Losers or Winners?
God knows I’m skeptical of adaptations these days, but I’m actually starting to get a good feeling about The Losers, Sylvain White’s adaptation of Andy Diggle & Jock’s great espionage comic. Diggle and Jock were apparently involved at various points in the production, and there’s even a promo poster that uses Jock’s cover to #12,…
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Jennifer’s Body review
If the editorial offices of Maxim and FHM ever master the art of human cloning and bioengineering, they’d probably come up with something a lot like Megan Fox. She’s got a ridiculous body, perfect skin, pouting lips, and a voice that always sounds breathy, feminine, and slightly submissive. So who better than Fox to play…
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Daybreakers review
Daybreakers has a great premise and a lot of ideas: What if vampires won? What if almost everyone was turned into a vampire? It’s not an entirely original idea – if you can, find a copy of Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula, which is criminally out of print – but writers/directors Peter & Michael Spierig put…
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500 Days of Summer review
Love will mess you up. Unless you’re one of those lucky, possibly boring, people who meet the perfect match in grade 2, there will undoubtedly be a time when you’re in love with someone who isn’t in love with you. Sometimes, at the easier end of the spectrum, they don’t know who you are. Sometimes…
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Star Trek 2009 review
I wanted to like it. Honest. I like Star Trek. Not so much the original series, but the movies, Next Generation, and DS9, at least. And I at least have an appreciation for the original series, what with William Shatner, cheesy makeup, and nifty 60s sci-fi. So when the prequel/remake came out this summer, I…