Monthly Archives: January 2011
Beatdown (2010)
Low budget fight movie with relative unknowns. Moderately entertaining at times, poor acting especially from the lead. The fights are decent though graphic. Not a great movie, and easy to pass on unless you totally bored and desperate.
5/10
Whip It (2009)
A young girl posing as someone of legal age, builds a career in women’s roller derby, when her mother has high hopes for her on the beauty pageant circuit.
A much better movie than I was expecting. It has heart, emotion, action, and some humor. Recommended.
9/10
Adventureland (2009)
Our lead character has to take a job at the local amusement park for the summer, in hopes of saving money to go to college.
This movie is better than I expected. Which is how I tend to feel about most of the movies Jesse Eisenberg stars in. He tends to star in these off the wall movies where you don’t know what to expect, and they usually end up being really good. And to his credit, often due to his roles. He has a way of making what would have been a mediocre movie at best, a really good one. The guy is talented.
8/10
GravyTrain (2010)
The Pink Panther (2009)
And Soon the Darkness (2010)
Moon (2009)
Moon is basically a one man Sci-Fi show. The main character is the single human support staff for a mining operation on the moon. It’s rather slow going, but also suspensefull with a few twists. Not your average Hollywood style movie. If you don’t mind the slow pace, this is a decent watch, but also a bit sad.
7/10