The only thing in The Book of Eli that should cause controversy among viewers is the ending. Some will buy it, others will not. People will surely argue its plausibility, but I accepted the ending because it reinforces the fact … Continue reading
Archive for June 2010
Movie Review: ‘The Book of Eli’ (2010)
Posted on Monday, June 28, 2010 at 4:57 pm by Danny King in the Reviews categoryMovie Review: ‘Toy Story 3′ (2010)
Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 2:59 am by Danny King in the Reviews categoryToy Story 3 succeeds not because it tries to outperform its two predecessors, but because it realizes how good those two films are, and makes a conscious decision to follow the same general formula. Like Toy Story and Toy Story 2, … Continue reading
Trailer for Mark Romanek’s ‘Never Let Me Go’
Posted on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 8:26 pm by Danny King in the Videos categoryYet another trailer has been released for a potential Oscar contender; this time, it is Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go. The screenplay was adapted by Alex Garland (Sunshine) from Kazuo Ishiguro’s celebrated 2005 novel. The central trio will be … Continue reading
Trailer for Sofia Coppola’s ‘Somewhere’
Posted on Monday, June 14, 2010 at 10:39 pm by Danny King in the Videos categorySofia Coppola, best known for writing and directing Lost in Translation, will have her next film, Somewhere, released on December 22 by Focus Features. A trailer has been released, which can be found embedded below or over at Apple. Stephen … Continue reading
Movie Review: ‘Get Him to the Greek’ (2010)
Posted on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 1:09 am by Danny King in the Reviews categoryGet Him to the Greek is the second film by Nicholas Stoller, a sort of spin-off of his first film, Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Like that film, Get Him to the Greek is able to deliver a steady amount of laughs … Continue reading
Movie Review: ‘Splice’ (2010)
Posted on Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 1:29 pm by Danny King in the Reviews categorySplice begins with Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) successfully commingling the DNA of several different animals. The result is a creature with proteins that have the potential to cure a good number of today’s most widespread diseases. When they … Continue reading
Movie Review: ‘Please Give’ (2010)
Posted on Friday, June 4, 2010 at 2:45 am by Danny King in the Reviews categoryPlease Give, the fourth film by writer-director Nicole Holofcener, is one of those movies which uses flawed, and at times, unlikeable characters to try and make moral and philosophical statements. The central couple of the film, played exquisitely by Catherine … Continue reading
