May 26
Directed by David Gordon Green, The Sitter is probably the movie you’re expecting. It is a big ol’ slice of R-rated clichés, of course, and there are no surprises. It packs a pile of 80s babysitting movie platitudes into its relatively slim form, too, giving it a sort of predictable sweetness that actually makes it somewhat endearing in the end. Somewhat.
This Means War is one of the most abrasive, frustrating, mind-numbingly terrible films of 2012. It presents itself as a romantic comedy action flick, but it fails on all fronts and winds up a blubbing mess “highlighted” by foolish characters, awkward lightning and set design, and Chelsea Handler’s nauseating attempts at humour.
You can check out the rest of this review at This Means War DVD Review: A Blubbing Mess at Cinema Sentries
Directed by Scott Sanders, Black Dynamite is a Blaxploitation homage flick that nails it down and knocks it out. Where some attempts at the genre fail, like the hopelessly mediocre Father’s Day, Black Dynamite excels because of one critical thing: commitment.
Produced by the famed Troma Enterainment, Father’s Day is a pretty middling affair. The flick comes written and directed by Winnipeg-based filmmaking collective Astron-6and attempts to slap itself headlong into the grindhouse and late-nite movie genre, using resolute cheese, bad effects, and exaggerated sex and violence to plead its case.
You can check out the rest of this review at Father’s Day (2011) Movie Review: Too Modern and Too Hip for Its Own Good at Cinema Sentries
In an age where many of us have taken to social networking to find out what’s happened to those we grew up with and spent our formative years with, Jason Reitman’s Young Adult is a near-perfect capsule of what it feels like to look down on someone – and fall flat on our faces. Written by Diablo Cody, this film marks the first time since Juno that the writer and Reitman have worked together.
