LITERAL REMAINS

Splice was definitely one of the more interesting movies to experience this summer, in a season packed with the likes of Inception and Sex and the City 2. Luckily, this movie was also definitely one of the most memorable. It’s a bizarre sci-fi drama involving the psychological ramifications of what would happen if you, and [...]

I’ve been putting it off and putting it off, but I finally watched this movie.  The American remake is going to have a difficult road to follow.  I can’t see any actress other than Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander.  She inhabits the role with everything she’s got, she becomes her.  Her performance is better than the [...]

The German village of Eichwald isn’t the best place to call home.  It’s picturesque, and in the early 1900′s, just before World War I, it’s the kind ofhamlet which everybody works together, everyone knows everyone else, and the world is large outside its borders, and so far, far away.  But their is a corruption in [...]

In the Victorian times, when you were poor you were the envy of those who were dirt poor.  Young Arthur Blake, to help his widowed mother, apprentices himself to Willie Grimes, a body snatcher.  If the title doesn’t give it away, or if someone out there just doesn’t know, a body snatcher…how do I put this…snatches [...]

Much like Christopher Nolan’s previous film, The Dark Knight, his latest motion picture foray arrives in theaters with an avalanche of buzz and hype.  And much like The Dark Knight, don’t believe it all, because Inception isn’t the end all-be all mother of all movies.  It’s not as good as the last Batman film, but [...]

Cliff and Cydney Anderson are on their honeymoon in Hawaii, jumping island to island, and destined to hike to a remote beach that promises to be paradise on earth.  Cliff is a nebbish screenwriter whose first screenplay is undergoing rewrites by another writer, and Cydney, well, she just seems too hot for dorky Cliff.  He [...]

In the future, after we have stripped Earth of all, or nearly all, of its natural resources, our primary source of energy will come from the moon.  The company, Lunar Industries, extracts the substance helium-3 from the moon’s soil.  Once enough is collected, it is loaded up and shot back to earth in a little [...]

I’m going to try to explain this properly; be patient with me.  Two masked murderers do a home invasion on a man and woman.  They kill the man, and chase the woman down the road, kidnapping her.  The serial killer duo are causing all kinds of mayhem on the Midwest, and two FBI agents are called [...]

The small town of Ogden Marsh, Iowa, will fill your head with John Mellencamp, “I was born in a small town/ And I live in a small town/ Probably die in a small town….“  The residents of Ogden Marsh can nix that “probably” part. As things always do, the day starts fairly normal.  It’s small [...]

Anything I say about this movie is irrelevant.  Anything any of the major critics out there say is irrelevant.  People are going to see this movie, die hard fans and those they love they drag to it.  And it’s not bad.  I liked it, and I don’t think that makes me any less of a man.  Plus I [...]

Ahhh, the good old days, when men wore flannel, women had feathered hair, and every wrong in the world was blamed on Satan and his loyal minions that infested every city and town.  Mutilated cow?  Satan’s doing.  Missing cat?  Nabbed by Satan.  Babysitter dead?  Human sacrifice. College student Samantha is tired of sharing a small, [...]

Ex-convict Arkin works as a handyman wherever he can find a job.  Currently it’s for a somewhat wealthy family renovating their isolated country house.  Working their with the carpenters, exterminators, and other tradesmen, Arkin gets to know the family, and some things about the family.  Their youngest daughter, Hannah, reminds him of his own little [...]

Shutter Island, as directed by Martin Scorsese, is a faithful adaption of Dennis Lehane’s novel.  That’s one problem, right there, with the movie:  Too faithful. Federal Marshal Edward “Teddy” Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, are sent to Shutter Island, to an institute for the criminally insane.  The ferry emerges from the fog ominously, [...]

High school is hell.  At least for Rickie and J.T.  Rickie is in love, or at least consumed with infatuation, for Joann, a girl he has had a crush on since elementary school.  But Joann barely knows Rickie exists, but she does notice him staring at her an awful lot.  So does her buff boyfriend, [...]

Let me make a couple recommendations.  Three, to be precise. Just a few days ago I stretched out and watched my DVD of The Wolfman.  The unrated director’s cut of the film, yo yo yo.  If you will allow me, don’t watch the director’s cut.  I was hoping, as in some cases (e.g. Rob Zombie’s [...]