[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005CT05AY][/pullquote] As someone who has little knowledge of Justin Bieber, his debut film Never Say Never taught me three important facts about the pop sensation: He's Canadian, he's left-handed and he is improbably and sickenly talented. Being the first megastar … [Read more...]
Review: Beastly (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00AC7PJIY][/pullquote] Beauty and the Beast is a French fairytale of a virtuous princess who falls in love with a hideously deformed beast and releases him from a curse. Beastly was originally a novel and now a film that retells the story and sets it in modern-day … [Read more...]
Review: Hall Pass (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0068N6TXK][/pullquote] Hall Pass is the latest film from the Farrelly Brothers. Their success began with Dumb and Dumber and then their most famous work to date, There's Something About Mary, released in 1998, was a huge box office success taking $368million and … [Read more...]
Review: Gentlemen Broncos (2009)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B003498RCW][/pullquote] Gentlemen Broncos is a film by director Jared Hess. He shot to prominence after the release of the critically acclaimed cult hit Napoleon Dynamite in 2004 and was praised for his unique style of deadpan comedy. This was followed in 2006 by Jack … [Read more...]
Review: Cedar Rapids (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0058HZTO2][/pullquote] Pardon my French, but you are full of bull-horn! comes the response from Cedar Rapids protagonist Tim Lippe (Ed Helms), and it is this line which encapsulates the whole film. Strangely it's a coming of age drama about a mid-30s insurance … [Read more...]
Review: I Am Number Four (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004MKN5BA][/pullquote] I am Number Four. Alex Pettyfer declares in the film's opening voice-over monologue. Well he's cleverly dropped in the name of the film in case anybody had made a mistake upon entering the cinema. What a thoughtful, considerate man he is. … [Read more...]
Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B003AQC1CQ][/pullquote] He can't do it. It's too long. There's too much detail. It's impossible. These were the cries that met Peter Jackson and Wingnut Films heard when they announced their intention to turn J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy masterpiece into three … [Read more...]
Review: Attack the Block (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005ZCAZ3A][/pullquote] Like many gritty, urban dramas, Attack the Block begins with a terrifying vision of the society in which we live. A scared women, walking along a deserted London street alone, when she runs into a group of youths who surround and mug her for a … [Read more...]
Review: Thor (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00F3TCFAG][/pullquote] Thor is the latest offering from Marvel Studios and one in a series of films that is building toward their marquee attraction film The Avengers. Like Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and the soon to be released Captain America: The First Avenger, … [Read more...]