Transformers: Dark of the Moon – 1 Bucket

Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a movie made up exclusively of interjections, a lot of plot but no story. It is tempting to diagnose the director, notorious Hollywood hack Michael Bay, with a severe case of ADD, but there is so little variety to all the shit that happens in the movie that doing [...]

Burn After Reading – 1 Bucket

There are those who have never quite been on Joel and Ethan Coen’s wavelength in terms of comedy, but I’m not in that group. In fact, I’m as big a Coen Brothers fan as anybody; I even dug their critically-lambasted Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers. But I flat-out didn’t get why 95 percent of the material in [...]

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – 2 Buckets

If there’s one thing that Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day does right, that thing is allowing Amy Adams to once again prove to audiences that she’s a star. Despite the general blandness of the film as a whole, Adams stands out above the rest, performing with such an involving amount of vigor that her character [...]