Mini Movie Reviews
In just a few sentences … or less
Superbad
It didn’t live up to the hype that everyone else gave it. It’s funny, sure but maybe I’m just too old to relate to the coming of age stories now. It didn’t have me slapping my knees as much as American Pie did, and it didn’t have the nuance that I fely 40 Year Old [...]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I recall this book to be the one I enjoyed the least in the series. Harry was inexplicably angsty and angry to the point of being whiney and the end sequence was unsatisfying and confusing. The movie in contrast, manages to really explain why Harry is justifiably angry at being excluded and has a duel [...]
Transformers
Michael Bay is known for over the top action, which is really pretty fitting for a movie about vehicles that transform into giant robots. The movie is itself a pretty poor script and plot but it makes fun of itself and does a great job, for those who watched the cartoon or had the action [...]
Colma: The Musical
Colma is he town in the Bay Area that has a population of buried people 10x of the living residents. Their tagline is, “it’s good to be alive in Colma.” So I thought, a movie that’s a musical and set in Colma can’t really go wrong. Sadly, the movie is pretty cookie cutter coming-of-age-growing-up-in-a-small-town film [...]
Live Free or Die Hard
Over the top. Bruce Willis kicks major ass. The crowd cheers. The end. So. Awesome. [imdb link]
Ocean’s Thirteen
Far and away less convoluted and more entertaining than 12, and perhaps even 11. I love heist movies like Sneakers and, to a lesser degree, some of the Mission: Impossible series and even Swordfish. Rather than going for the gritty, “things go to hell” approach, I felt like they genuinely were just having fun with [...]
Stranger Than Fiction
After being bugged multiple times by my friend to watch this movie, I finally had the opportunity to. Will Ferrell and Emma Thompson were both brilliant in their respective roles as character and author and I’ve already established that Maggie Gyllenhaal is eminently crushable. A healthy dose of Spoon, whom I’ve recently started listening to [...]
Spider-man 3
Wow, how can the same director do two movies that are so different in the same series? Spider-man 2 was a great sequel in the franchise and showed that a superhero franchise didn’t have to get progressively worse. Spider-man 3 could easily have been two or more separate movies but they did what Batman did [...]
28 Weeks Later
28 Days Later is one of the best horror movies in recent years. Danny Boyle unfortunately, or fortunately, takes that and uses the same formula and dials 28 Weeks Later up a notch. While reasonably predictable, the drama, score and direction all contributed to an intense experience. I’d call it a rollercoaster but it’s not. [...]
Ghost Train (Otoshimono)
In the vein of Japanese psychological thrillers and horrors like The Ring, and yet taking a lot of aspects of other genres of thrillers, this movie didn’t strike me as particularly scary … until I found that I woke up 5 times throughout the night. I guess like Hitchcock films, it affected me more than [...]
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Kevin Cheng is a global nomad who's settled in San Francisco after calling Vancouver, Hong Kong, Austin and London his homes. Founder of Off Panel Productions and OK/Cancel. Director of Product Strategy at Raptr, a social network for gamers, and former designer of Pipes and Bravonation at Yahoo!. Presenter on numerous design subjects. Reachable at kc -at- this domain.
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