Archive for Release Year: 2006

25 posts from 31 August 2024 to 18 June 2017.

  • The Devil Wears Prada

    Whoring out is the only way to be someone in life

  • Breaking and Entering

    Hipster cheats his wife thrice, while ignoring her autistic kid, gets away with it with passionate kisses.

  • Saw III

    Yet another formulaic sadistic gorefest. I almost sawed some logs while watching this.

  • Mission: Impossible III

    I fell asleep thrice while watching this.

  • Rocky Balboa

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  • The Pink Panther

    Cyclists falling over: The Movie.

  • The Wicker Man

    The other Bee Movie, equally as hilarious. A classic Nic Cage romp.

  • Paprika

    Even man-child Fritz Haber deserves love.

  • Casino Royale

    The one where the franchise grows the beard. After dozens of formulaic carbon copies, they graduate to the big boys club.

  • Inside Man

    A oddly mainstream Spike Lee joint, but still seeped in his particular style. Gripping from start to finish.

  • Snakes on a Plane

    Hyper-sexualized snakes on a 747.

  • Little Miss Sunshine

    The core point is kinda taken away when you find out the little girl wore a fat suit during the film. That’s American cinema for you!

  • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

    The beginning of the superhero-fication of Fast and Furious.

  • A Good Year

    Ridley Scott’s Provence holiday. That mix between Provençal real estate ads, eulogising sociopaths and casual chauvinism bordering on assault.

  • The Fountain

    Even mainstream Aronofsky is great. The classical themes of Christianity and Environmentalism are always present.

  • Coisa Ruim

    Man is the real monster, and moving from the big city to bumfuck reveals the seething problems lurking beneath the veneer of respectability.

  • Underworld: Evolution

    More gore and guns, with nicer hairy werewolves. The plot thickens a bit, but since nearly all characters die (even the main ones, which come back again), everything is self-contained.

  • The Good German

    Ha, that ironic title. Sounds the opposite, every German is a fucking Nazi, even the Jews married SS.

  • Blood Diamond

    A rough cut from a better film, in need of some lamination and abrasion.

  • Children of Men

    The long shots never get old. Never.

  • The Host

    Just like Parasite (and even Mother), the tone swerves very fast from hilarious comedy to poignant emotional suffering. The USA are the real monsters…

  • The Da Vinci Code

    This is the one with Audrey Tatou as the platonic love interest. Ron Howard’s brand of blandness and safe. To think I once though this was a great thriller, I was very young and naïve. Remember, this is like Bond for Dunning-Kruger sufferers.

  • Crank

    Borderline experimental action film. A bunch of vignettes on teenage radical stuff, very juvenile, 90’s nu-metal, very fast cameras with fisheye lenses.

  • 300

    This story doesn’t need to be directly interpreted as the last stand of Europe against the Asiatic hordes, since Attila and Genghis Khan are well into the future. It can be bloody Asterix, some monarchist anarchists fight an invasion by an evil empire.

  • The Departed

    Those damn Buoston accents, I luove it. “Anointed Pederast” when referring to men of the cloth, they should have used that tagline on Spotlight (or at least a punk band name). I really want to rewatch Infernal Affairs now.