Runtime: 2 hours, 16 minutes Rating: R Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Quick Impressions: My eyes hurt. I think that’s because I just stared intently at a movie screen for over two hours without blinking once. I feel like I’ve just been audited—no, sorry, processed. (For some reason, we’re pretending The …
Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutesRating: PG-13Director: Benh Zeitlin Quick Impressions: So in our city, practically every movie worth seeing in September comes out on the twenty-first. Okay, maybe that’s not completely true, but next weekend is packed with high profile releases. Popcorn flick Dredd 3D, well-cast horror title The House at the End of the …
Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes Rating: NC-17 Director: William Friedkin Quick Impressions: We can never know the future, but one thing has been clear to me since early summer. No one will ever convince me to pay money to see The Words. In fact, someone will have to pay me …
Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes Rating: R Director: John Hillcoat Quick Impressions: Ever recognize an actor you weren’t expecting in a movie and realize, “Of course! He/she is in everything lately?” Can you imagine how weird it would be if that happened every time somebody new showed up on screen? …
Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: David Koepp Quick Impressions: Full Disclosure: Before seeing Premium Rush, I spent the afternoon shopping for a reasonably priced 24 X 36 inch poster frame, so that I can display the new giant London Underground map I recently purchased. Why? Am I …
Runtime: 1 hour, 27 minutes Rating: PG Directors: Michael Thurmeier, Steve Martino Quick Impressions: Since The Avengers, we’d been seeing at least one movie a week all summer. But then in July we went on a long vacation that made us miss Ice Age: Continental Drift and The Dark Knight Rises. We saw The Dark Knight Rises as soon as we got …
Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes Rating: PG Directors: Sam Fell, Chris Butler Quick Impressions:Since summer movie season started early back in May, we’ve been bombarded with previews for ParaNorman, Frankenweenie, and Hotel Transylvania. Seriously, those three previews seem to play back-to-back in front of every family-oriented movie out there. Basically, they all ran together for me, and ParaNorman didn’t look …
Runtime: 2 hours, 15 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Tony Gilroy Quick Impressions: Here’s the burning question the movie left me asking. What color pill did Dr. Shearing take? I mean, she looks like Rachel Weisz. She’s a brilliant research scientist. And she can keep up with a genetically enhanced super spy while wearing fashionable clothes (and …
Runtime: 1 hour, 40 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: David Frankel Quick Impressions: Had the remake of Total Recall still involved Mars, I can guarantee that my husband and I would have chosen that as our movie of the week. The Curiosity landing has everyone abuzz at our house. Even my …
Runtime: 2 hours, 45 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Christopher Nolan Quick Impressions: The opening sequence of this movie terrified me. Since our family was on vacation in Disneyland on the day of the film’s release, I didn’t get to see The Dark Knight Rises until it had been out for …
