Movie Review #39: Tell No One

I can’t remember why I was looking forward to seeing this movie so badly other than Netflix told me to. I’m also pretty sure I was going on a Luc Besson kick for a while after watching La Femme Nikita and though this movie is only produced by him, I was looking forward to it. [...]

Movie Reviews #37: Lions for Lambs

A month or two ago, i had the honor of going to opening night of a broadway play (athankyou Jessica). Death of a Salesman. With Philip Seymour Hoffman in the lead role and… my boy… Andrew Garfield as Biff A friend of mine recently claimed he knew Andrew and thought he could get Garfield to [...]

Movie Review #36: 1408

On a recent trip up to Boston, we had some free time and decided to watch a good old fashioned John Cusack movie. My friend Kelli insisted that 1408 was a scary scary movie and that we would be impressed by it if we gave it another chance. So we did! I believe I am [...]

Movie Review #51: Cabin in the Woods

Do you dare me to write 400 words about Cabin in the Woods without giving anything away? Dare accepted. 1. I love this movie. There’s four words right there. Hmmmm… what else can I say? 2. Thor is in this movie. That’s a fact. 3. This movie is Joss Whedon’s second best movie of the [...]

Movie Review #34: Robocop

The other day I was very sickly. Stayed home from work. Didn’t have much human interaction. Did have one moment though… My dad called me to ask a trivia question. Yea. That’s pretty typical actually. It was a fun one… Name 4 movies that happened or are about Detroit. My responses baffled me at first, [...]

Movie Review #33: Carnival of Souls

I watched this movie and I’m still not sure I understand what the F***K happened in this movie. It took me quite a few watchings to make it through the first 20 minutes of this movie. I had been told many many times that this was one of those movies that has a hot horror [...]

Movie Review #35: The Avengers

Yesterday, I was browsing the interwebs and came across a list. I was giddy! A LIST?!?! My favorite. It was a list of the top 10 greatest comic book movies of all time. In the blurb about the list, the writer announces that he and the staff have seen Avengers and yes it is on [...]

Movie Review #28: Batman: Year One

While I’ll admit that this movie isn’t exactly a movie in the traditional “movie theater” way, this is a movie just as real as any other. I think this movie is one of the best straight to DVD animated movies I’ve ever seen!!! I haven’t had the luxury of reading Frank Miller’s initial Batman: Year [...]

Movie Review #27: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

A Friday night can be spent many a way. You could go out with friends and have a buncha drinks. You could get some very important work done. You could go to a ballgame (which I’m very much looking forward to going to a few ballgames over the course of this summer, but that’s not [...]

Movie Review #26: The King’s Speech

And so it is complete. I am back in the ranks of people who have seen every Best Picture winner for the past 40 years. This one was very very good and I’m sad that it took me so long to see it. But, it’s seen now, so that’s all that matters. Here’s something that [...]

Movie Review #22: Lethal Weapon

28 years. I managed to go 28 years without watching an entire Lethal Weapon movie. I distinctly remember having seen Renee Russo at some point, but I had never watched any of the movies all the way through, I’m sure of that. But then I said to myself, Travie, how does your age match up [...]

Movie Review #21: Who Killed the Electric Car?

This doc had been sitting near the top of my queue for quite some time and I’d say that the main reason I had been avoiding watching it was that I felt that the story had already been missed. The world has started to accept the electric car. We’re on our way to solving this [...]

Movie Review #41: The Hunger Games

There was a point in this movie when I turned to Jess and I said “there has to be at least an hour left in this movie, right?” The problem is that she thought “Oh no! He’s bored. He’s counting down the time.” What was actually happening in my head was “There’s ONLY an hour [...]

Movie Review #23: John Carter

JOHHHHHHHHHHHN CARTEEEEERRRRRR!!!!!!! The history of what is going to be the untold history of this movie has to be told! Articles as far as the eye can see: “Biggest flop in the history of movies” “Worst decision ever made” “Marketing for John Carter sinks the movie” The articles all say how bad the movie is [...]

Movie Review #12: Norwegian Wood

I got the chance to go see this movie recently at my fave theater, the IFC, with my lady and a few of her friends. I love that theater so much. I feel like I could probably spend an entire day looking at the dvds at the popcorn stand. I’m not even talking about watching [...]