Reporting on some observing

Looking for a typical Saturday night comedy movie? This movie ought to be interesting then, although the kids should probably be left at home.

Movies, movies, movies to see over the holidays: part 1

1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Presented by: Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures
Release Date: December 25, 2008
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Brad Pitt as the title character, Cate Blanchett as Daisy, Tilda Swinton as Elizabeth Abbott, and Jason Flemyng as Thomas Button
Synopsis: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s (The Great Gatsby) short story is the miraculous story [...]

Max Payne: better as a video game

After the videogame to movie debacles of Super Mario Brothers and Street Fighter, yet another video game adaptation comes our way.
Hollywood seems to love to crank these out in their quest to attain money from bored 13 year olds. However, rather than file this one in the “Unbelievably Ridiculous” folder I think it has a place in the “Halfway Decent” file, with Silent Hill. Yes, this one actually turned out somewhat decent, though it did not live up to the hype.

Burn After Reading is a risk worth taking

This new Coen Brothers’ movie is the epitome of the idiom “you’re making a mountain out of a molehill”, much like their recent film, the Academy Award winning No Country for Old Men. Yet this feature reverts back to their older mode in the comedy genre, which has been perfected and re-perfected beginning with the 1980s Nicholas Cage debut, Raising Arizona.