Real Review - For Love of the Game HD DVD
July 5, 2008
Summer is always a good time to watch a baseball flick, and tonight I chose Kevin Costner’s For Love of the Game. Costner certainly enjoys starring in baseball movies. Whereas Costner touched upon the fantastic with the infamous 1919 Chicago “Black” Sox in Field of Dreams, and upon the comedic with the unglamorous minor league play in Bull Durham, here, in For Love of the Game, Costner takes a different slant on baseball by heralding the dramatic. So how does this film compare? Read more
Real Review - Wall-e
June 30, 2008
Pixar does it again. I wish that magic could be bottled and shipped to other studios. With absolute efficiency of storytelling, coupled with warmth and humor, they once again unleash an instant classic. WALL-E is a trash compacting robot, left behind to clean up a super-polluted Earth while humanity blasts into space. Read more
Real Review - The Love Guru
June 29, 2008
The Love Guru is a raunchy comedy worthy only of Mike Myers. His newest character, Guru Pitka, is a cross between a horny Siddhartha and a hyped up Austin Powers on crack. It has been awhile since we have seen Myers on the big screen in a live-action comedy and after his disastrous Cat in the Hat, people were wondering when the characterization genius would introduce us to someone new. Read more
Real Review - Get Smart 2008
June 28, 2008
Don Adams will always be Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, from the classic, subversive, and sarcastic 1960’s television series, Get Smart. I grew up watching the television series in reruns in the 1970s. It would be much later realized that the show was a clever satire written by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. I would expect nothing less from these two comic heavyweights. Read more
Real Review - The Happening
June 23, 2008
While nothing bares resemblance to M. Night Shyamalan’s previous morbid and dull thriller Lady in the Water, The Happening forgoes that film and all of the director’s previous films to focus under a microscope a topic that relies relatively on nothing, an invisible antagonist, but on the contrary a topic that resonates deep into our world’s given situation. The result is a slow-building suspense film that binds reality and imagination in ways only a bedtime storyteller can conjure up. Read more
Real Review - Fool’s Gold
June 22, 2008
Admirers of underdressed movie stars will enjoy Matthew McConaughey, who sports only swimwear for many of his scenes in Fool’s Gold. Everyone else may feel a little cheated. Read more
