François Truffaut once said that "Film lovers are sick people." He may have been on to something.
Showing posts with label Elizabeth Banks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elizabeth Banks. Show all posts
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Film Review: Love & Mercy (2014)
The biopic genre is so weighed down by so many mediocre attempts to recreate well-trodden stories that when a film like Love & Mercy comes along, it's enough to make you angry. You come away thinking "Why did they get it so right when everyone else gets it wrong?" Even if the expectations for this type of film are admittedly low, it's still invigorating seeing director Bill Pohlad and writers Michael Alan Lerner and Oren Moverman bring real vision to a story that could easily have been nothing but a staid retelling.
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2014,
biopic,
drama,
Elizabeth Banks,
film,
film review,
John Cusack,
Music,
Paul Dano,
review
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Film Review: The Lego Movie (2014)
Emmet Brickowski (Chris Pratt) is a thoroughly average construction worker. Actually, average doesn't go far enough: Emmitt is consistently and thoroughly generic. He looks like everyone else in the city of Brickburg; he watches the same TV program that they do (a sitcom whose title and sole line of dialogue is "Where Are My Pants?"); he loves the one song that they play on the radio, a relentless perky electro-pop hit called "Everything is Awesome." Despite his adherence to following the instructions for living laid out by President Business (Will Ferrell), Emmet suspects that everything isn't awesome, and that maybe there's more to life than going to and from work. When he stumbles across a beautiful Master Builder named Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) and a mystery block called The Piece of Resistance, Emmet is thrust into the middle of a desperate struggle to defeat President Business' plan to use a super weapon called the Kragle to destroy the world. The rebels become convinced that Emmet is the legendary Special destined to save the world. The only problem is that there is nothing remarkable about him. Like, at all.
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2013,
animation,
Chris Pratt,
comedy,
Elizabeth Banks,
film,
film review,
LEGO,
Nick Offerman,
review,
Will Arnett
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