michael's movie reviews
2010
These are the movies I reviewed in 2010.
reviewed 2010.12.30
I was put off by the trailers for this movie, then more so by the incredible success of it...
reviewed 2010.11.30
This is a superb story about a man who with the ability to travel in time...
reviewed 2010.10.18
This is a movie about an Army veteran who receives word that his son has gone missing from an army base in the US. Believing his son to be in Iraq, he at first challenges this assertion but is told the son's unit has been returned. He tries to contact the young man, but failing to reach him decides to investigate for himself.The veteran was an MP (and retains the rank of Sergeant) so he decides ..
reviewed 2010.09.30
I'm not usually a fan of horror, but this is a very well done piece with lots of "home video footage" that shows a couple slowly being tormented by a possession...
reviewed 2010.09.18
This is a film set in a low-income urban neighborhood somewhere in the UK...
reviewed 2010.08.21
I watched this with The Boy, who seemed to have fun despite being only 2 1/2. It's about a Panda being raised in the city by a ramen-slinging Goose. The Panda's heroes are the nations greatest warriors, a team of martial artists that protect the kingdom. He longs to join that world, but the reality is he's gotta serve noodles.But then he's told to take the delivery cart to the high place where t..
reviewed 2010.08.03
This is a story of a young girl who tells stories...
reviewed 2010.07.24
This is an excellent sci-fi piece about a fellow who has a three-year solo work assignment on the "far side" of the moon. When some equipment breaks down he calls for assistance but it looks bad; he's stranded alone, the only person on the planet working for this mining concern. The communications satellite isn't working and no one even knows he's in trouble.He later awakes from stasis to be gre..
reviewed 2010.06.22
This is a sci-fi monster flick in which New York is invaded quite out of the blue by a towering creature dozens of meters tall (if not more) and dripping its young onto the city as it rampages about...
reviewed 2010.06.04
This is a story about a semi-retired Cold War spy whose daughter is kidnapped along with a friend while traveling in Europe...
reviewed 2010.05.20
This is a movie about brothers who led a life of crime in the years prior to World War II, only to have leadership thrust upon them when the war comes and their Jewish community is forced to live in the woods...
reviewed 2010.05.07
They've "rebooted" Star Trek...
reviewed 2010.05.03
This is a story about some British gangsters...
reviewed 2010.04.13
When you live in Japan you tend to miss the latest trends in North America. So it was that I didn't know about the zombie and vampire movements in cinema. Hooray!Since "The Night of the Living Dead", which I enjoyed, I haven't enjoyed many others. "28 Days Later" was good but the zombies were fast, and therefor more ghouls than zombies. This one was a happy and refreshing break.It features a n..
reviewed 2010.02.14
In this Cold War movie, a reporter becomes obsessed with a story following the suspicious death of one of his colleagues following an expose written by the reporter...
reviewed 2010.02.06
A couple of weeks ago I wrote that I suspected I'd already seen the best film of the year with "Wall-E"...
reviewed 2010.01.26
If a perfect animated movie is possible, this is it...
reviewed 2010.01.01
Well it's New Year's Day, and it's been thirteen years to the day since I started my capsule movie reviews. Today I re-watched the '80s classic "Aliens", and realized that I hadn't written a review.This is a War movie with a Sci-Fi sleeve...