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Waltz with Bashir

[Originally posted on Ryan's Smashing Life]
Waltz with Bashir is an animated documentary dealing with director Ari Folman’s pieced together memories of the 1982 Lebanon War. The director was 20 years old and on the front line in Beirut. Specifically, the film deals with Folman’s trouble recalling The Sabra and Shatila massacre - the darkest part [...]

Film Review: Hellboy II - The Golden Army

Don’t ignore this film in favor of The Dark Knight. While the new Hellboy film lacks the dark, dangerous quality of creator Mike Mignola’s graphic novels (as did the first), Hellboy II: The Golden Army is big and fun and definitely worth seeing in the theater. Guillermo del Torro’s latest effort is a great monster [...]

Film Review: The Fall

At first I thought I didn’t like The Fall very much. The trailer had led me to expect a real visual freak out, but on the surface The Fall seemed a fairly pedestrian effort. Though director Tarsem brought visual flash to certain sequences overall the movie was best described as “low key”. Yet, there’s more [...]

Film Review: The Happening

M. Night Shyamalan was a burning star of American cinema, making four near-perfect films in a row. Starting with the heart-rending Wide Awake, (and, if you haven’t seen that, you really should), through the low-key chills of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable and finishing with the truly terrifying Signs, he was a cinematic revelation who [...]

Attack of the Singing Actresses

Remember when Jennifer Lopez was a credible actress? I don’t blame you if you don’t, but for a second there it seemed like a great new actress has arrived on the scene. And then she started singing…and worse…she insisted on dancing too. That was the end of that.
Despite that, here are 3 new albums that [...]

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