Of Two Minds

On Thursday, Jenn and I were lucky enough to get to see one of the second round of advance screenings for Serenity, the movie based on the short-lived Firefly television series by Joss Whedon.
In short, it was great.
Joss has captured the essence of what made Firefly so cool, and he’s made a movie that manages [...]

Peter Pan [4/5]
When I first saw the trailer for this movie a few months ago, I was dubious, as Hollywood has a long tradition of turning great stories into bad movies, and I have always liked J.M. Barrie’s tale. However, Jennifer was intending to see the movie, and I read good comments about it [...]

Now that I’ve had the chance to see LotR: Return of the King twice, I’ll take the time to offer my thoughts. My overall opinion is that it was a very good movie with an ending that drags it down.
The details, with spoilers, below.
I’m going to skip the part where I complain about each [...]

I saw these two movies a month apart, the first back in October and the other a couple of weeks ago, but since they’re the last two movies I’ve seen in the theater, I thought I’d talk about both of them in one entry.
I’d wanted to go see Lost in Translation as soon as I [...]

A couple weeks ago, we finally sat down and watched this on DVD, which we had on loan from Jack.
Peace Hotel [2/5]
Written by Chow Yun-Fat & Wai Ka-Fai
Directed by Wai Ka-Fai
Cast
The Killer (Chow Yun-Fat)
Shau Siu Man (Cecilia Yip)
Touted as a spaghetti western of the Hong Kong movie variety, the movie does indeed have some of [...]

Pirates of the Carribean [4/5]
Yesterday Jennifer and I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean, the new summer blockbuster from Disney that stars Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom. I had been looking forward to this film for a few months, ever since first seeing an ad for it, but I was worried that when [...]

Equilibrium [4/5]
This was a movie that I had been looking forward to seeing for a while, ever since I first read a glowing review of it in November. Though the movie was apparently intended for wide release at some point, the studio, for its own mysterious reasons, changed its mind. Instead, Equilibrium [...]

Equilibrium [3.5/5]
Written and Directed by Kurt Wimmer
Cast
John Preston (Christian Bale)
Brandt (Taye Diggs)
Mary O’Brien (Emily Watson)
Dupont (Angus MacFadyen)
Partridge (Sean Bean)
Elements of this film draw on classic traditions of science fiction shown in stories such as Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Logan’s Run, and other dystopian visions of the future, as well as the kind of special [...]