Movies
Cowboys And Aliens
Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig fight aliens in a western. Sounds great but it was just okay. Frankly, the subtext of people coming out of nowhere to take all your resources and kill you was way too close for me. … Continue reading
Captain America
This a solid movie of Captain America that integrates special effects to tell the story. The skinny kid from Brooklyn is transformed by a scientist refugee from Germany into a super soldier. The movie captures the fears and anxieties of … Continue reading
Contagion
This is not a movie to see in a crowded theater. Wait until you can watch it at home when you are sick with the flu. I thought it was an incredibly evenhanded account of a very dramatic story. A … Continue reading
United 93
How does the old song go? I’m on a flight from Newark Please pick up the phone Something’s happened on the plane And I won’t be coming home. This is a shaky camera, minute-by-minute account of United Flight 93 on … Continue reading
X-Men First Class
X-Men goes Mad Men. This is the fifth film in the series and goes back to the early 1960s and rewrites the Cuban Missile Crisis. The history in this film is so distorted you will be looking for a FoxNews … Continue reading
Source Code
Jake Gyllenhaal plays a seriously disabled soldier who wakes up in the body of an English teacher on a Chicago commuter train about to explode. He is supposed to find a terrorist before the entire city is destroyed. Each time … Continue reading
Adjustment Bureau
I keep trying to write a review about this Philip K. Dick movie, but men in hats keep distracting me. :-) Copyright 2011 DJ Cline All rights reserved.
Paul
I was stuck in a strange town over the weekend. There was not much to do but go to a local movie theater and see “Paul”. Put together by the same people who made “Shaun of The Dead” and “Hot … Continue reading