This Means War – 1 1/2 Buckets

It’s never a good sign when, as one watches a movie, one imagines the studio pitch meeting in one’s head. This is the case with This Means War, which was undoubtedly conceived as a carefully-targeted corporate product rather… [Read more]

Monsters vs. Aliens – 2 Buckets

When I review a movie solely because I think it will do well at the box-office and translate into a lot of website hits, it’s usually true that the movie’s intentions are equally commercial and inartistic. I have little to say about Monsters vs. Aliens mostly because the film doesn’t contain anything that merits even a [...]

Rendition – 1 1/2 Buckets

“The thing that gets under my skin most about George W. [Bush] is his intention to install fear in people […] this government is all about terror alerts and scaring us at airports. We’re changing the Constitution out of fear. We spend all our time looking up each other’s dresses. Fear’s the only issue the [...]