Tag: samuel l. jackson
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Review: The Protégé
Martin Campbell’s The Protégé is as formulaic as an action movie can get, with a plot that is hardly new. Formula can work though, if the formula is handled the right way. For a good chunk of The Protégé, it mostly does, formula and all, because it’s enjoyable enough. The whole movie is unfortunately undone…
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“Glass” Review: [Insert Glass Pun Here]
By Christian DiMartino M. Night Shamylan’s new movie Glass is a bit like his career: it’s all over the place. Shamylan’s first film, Wide Awake, was a well-intentioned but unfortunately awful faith-based drama. Yet he (nearly) struck Oscar gold with The Sixth Sense, and he was on roll after… until the last half of The Village, which oozed with disappointment,…
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Review: The Legend of Tarzan
By Christian DiMartino The Legend of Tarzan is a film that is easy to watch while you’re watching it, but yet when you think about it as a whole, it falls apart. It’s a shame too. It works in stretches, but yet too much of it doesn’t. It’s something of a missed opportunity. Granted, some…
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Review: Cell
By Christian DiMartino If you’ve ever seen Forgetting Sarah Marshall, you’ll recall a scene in which they’re all sitting around discussing this film that Sarah (Kristen Bell) starred in, in which she was in a fight against killer cell phones. This scene is funny, in the way they describe the ridiculousness of the film. But…
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Review: The Hateful Eight
By Christian DiMartino Quentin Tarantino’s films are best known for two typical traits: Over-the-top violence, and whip smart, crackling dialogue. I’ve seen all of Tarantino’s films, and it is truly a rare event when one of them DOESN’T make my ten best list. His great films (Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol.1 & 2, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained)…
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