Twitter Review: Halloween (2007)
Zombie’s ‘Halloween’ purveys trite backstory, poorly mimics iconic moments, and jacks up the T&A, but it finds in its final moments a voice.
Tagged: Halloween, Horror, Reviews, Rob Zombie, Twitter, Twitter Reviews
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Ebert’s Excellent, Incisive Sentence
Ebert: “Material is sanitized and dumbed down for a hypothetical teen market that is way too sophisticated for it.”
Tagged: Critics, Roger Ebert
Twitter Review: Tell No One
Teasing with odd, existential potential, the tight French thriller ‘Tell No One’ sadly picks a worn, logical path. A lovely ending, though.
Twitter Review: The Flight of the Conchords Season 2
‘Flight of the Conchords S2’ shows what happens when your great ideas got used up the first time. Often amusing but random and kinda stupid.
Twitter Review: Battlestar Galactica Season 3
‘BSG S3’ starts bracingly and ends depressingly shittily. New Caprica gave me hope; ‘Watchtower’ felt like 6 hours of agony. Vexingly uneven
Twitter Review: Repulsion
Polanski’s obtuse ‘Repulsion’ mines fear of rape, men, abandonment. 1 great shock & effective spatial horror, but male POV leers and muddles
Tagged: Horror, Repulsion, Reviews, Roman Polanksi, Twitter, Twitter Reviews
Twitter Review: A Tale of Two Sisters
‘A Tale of 2 Sisters’ undermines reality to the extent that it’s hard to care. Creepy and full of potent symbolism, I’m baffled not scared.
Twitter Review: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
For 2 hours, ‘TAOJJBTCRF’ seems to wander enigmatically with a sharp eye. But its final 30 minutes pierce as themes coalesce novelistically.
Twitter Review: Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
The consensus apex of the Star Trek films, ‘Khan’ opens as slowly as its forebear and only eclipses it when the Genesis and Spock plots meet
Twitter Review: Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Once you get past the torpid first hour, 1979’s ‘Star Trek’ is shockingly compelling – a leisurely puzzle that presages ‘BSG’ and its themes
