Miniature dogs may be the most annoying creatures on earth. At first I felt that way because they all tend to have that “yip-yip” bark that can drive any sane person crazy within seconds. Recently a new, more pronounced and powerful reason to hate them has emerged — the super rich dress them in horrendous costumes and parade them around like fashion accessories. I guess seeing these animals (and their pathetic owners) on the multitude of celebrity rag television shows on a daily basis isn’t enough, as someone decided they needed to be on the silver screen starring in their own movie: Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
The devil dog in question is Chloe (voiced by Drew Barrymore). She is a pampered Chihuahua living the life of luxury that 99.5% of us will never experience in our lifetime. But just as is the case with the majority of ...
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Movie Review: Eagle Eye (2008) »
Critical Critic: General Disdain | Published on: October 1, 2008
Filed under: Mystery, Thriller, Action/Adventure | 0 Comments
Yes, we know Big Brother is watching us. He's been watching us for a very long, long time — the digital age and relentless media exposure just makes it that much more in your face. And just like when the internet was the new great unknown, Hollywood tried to capitalize on the horrors of it with the awful movie, The Net. In an equally ridiculous fear-hyping scenario, today’s version of that movie is Eagle Eye.
Instead of Sandra Bullock getting the short end of the stick, this time around Shia LaBeouf is the lucky recipient. He plays Jerry Shaw, a tumbleweed of sorts — he moves into a town, works a “no-brain needed” job and moves onto the next locale when he gets the itch to move on. But someone has a need for him (and many other ordinary citizens) to help see ...
Movie Review: Tortured (2008) »
Critical Critic: General Disdain | Published on: September 29, 2008
Filed under: Crime, Thriller | 2 Comments
As much as I like myself a steady diet of violence in my movies, I’m mostly unimpressed with the whole “torture-porn” phenomenon. It’s not the glorification that I take issue with; it’s more about the difficulty in putting together a half-way decent movie around the concept. Only Saw with its ingenious contraptions tied to life and death mind-teasers and Hostel which highlighted it all as a freakish fetish successfully married the two. Then came the mess that is their sequels and crap like Captivity. Today there is Tortured.
The premise of Tortured is built around the double life of FBI agent Kevin Cole (Cole Hauser). On one hand he is a hard working field agent for the FBI with something to prove to his father, FBI director Jack Cole (James Cromwell). On the other, he takes ...Movie Review: Miracle at St. Anna (2008) »
Critical Critic: General Disdain | Published on: September 27, 2008
Filed under: War, Drama, Action/Adventure | 3 Comments
There are few guarantees in life — you’re going to die someday, you’ve got to pay your taxes, no good can come from smoking methamphetamine, and Spike Lee will make a movie that, at its core, has deep, driving racial overtones. Yep, that’s right boys and girls, it is a sure-fire guarantee that Spike Lee will make a film about black-white relations (just look at the Vegas odds). Miracle at St. Anna is his latest, this time taking racial strife off of the streets and placing it in the theater of war.
The film is told mostly through a flashback (for a staggering 160 minutes), after Hector Negron (Laz Alonso), a postal worker, gets himself in trouble in the present day. He tells the incredible story of when he and three fellow soldiers of the 92nd Infantry were stuck behind enemy lines in Tuscany, Italy during WWII. Specifically, ...
