Before I Fall
MOVIE REVIEW: Before I Fall Just saw BEFORE I FALL. Start with GROUNDHOG DAY. Strip Phil Conners of everything interesting about his personality, make him the beta-bitch mean girl, and send him to high school. Now find anything emotionally resonant that happens between characters along with any subtlety or subtext and put that shit right in the text. Turn it into ham-handed dialogue or dump it into the incessant voice over....
Movie Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014
Movie Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014 – by Ken Bolding Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014 combines the depth of character of a boy band (the strong one, the smart one, the horny one, and the other one), with a visual style almost as good as Transformers IV, razor-sharp storytelling almost as good as Transformers III, wit and originality almost as good as Transformers II, and a Megan Fox almost as good as Transformers I....
Movie Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Movie Review – by Ken Bolding I loved Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. It is different in tone that its predecessor Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which I also thought was fantastic. It wasn’t at all what I expected. “Dawn” isn’t really an action movie. It’s much more cerebral than you’d expect in a movie about a bunch of apes taking over the world. And to its credit, this film is distinctly...
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