Watch It, Buddy!

Every Blogger down in Blogville liked Christmas a lot But the Migrinch who lived just North of Blogville did not! The Migrinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! The Bloggers’ inactivity was partly the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his lager was too light. It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right. … Continue reading →

Well, it looks like Martin Scorcese can put a big red check next to “make a successful family friendly movie” off of his “to make” movie list. Hugo is a film about a boy (Asa Butterfield), his female companion (Chloe Grace Moretz), and the boy’s goal to learn more about his father – and in … Continue reading →

Well my friends, as we leave our milder than average November behind, it’s time for us to look forward to the Holiday season. I personally love all this holiday cheesy shit so you can expect my love for all things Christmas and festive to meld into my posts. Starting this week, expect some Christmas related … Continue reading →

I’ll just start by saying what we all thought: that last scene was really, really good. How good? Well, it didn’t quite fully redeem the meandering direction that plagued the first half of the season, but it did a good job at re-emphasizing some moments and interactions that they did well in the first half … Continue reading →

Skyfall, the title of the 23rd James Bond film, was finally announced earlier this month. To make sure that returning Agent 007 Daniel Craig and first-time Bond director Sam Mendes don’t make another Quantum of Solace, they need to look back at 1973’s Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee’s final film released just a few days … Continue reading →

“Life on Earth is Evil” If you’re going into Melancholia and simply want to see a planet crash into the Earth and how people react will react to the end of days, then you will like half the movie. Oh sure, I’m not giving anything away when I say the planets are going to crash, … Continue reading →

When Orson Welles said that Jean-Luc Godard had enormous gifts as a director but his message “could be written on the head of a pin”, he hit it on the nose: Godard’s work is defined by style over substance. With Masculin, féminin, Godard actually one-ups himself by filming just style for 103 minutes. Grade: F- Verdict: … Continue reading →

With the cold weather approaching and with September behind us, we are now entering one of my favourite parts of the year: Oscar season. From November to December, it seems like there is a never ending flow of worthwhile drama movies to check out on Friday nights, and this year doesn’t seem to be any … Continue reading →

The Hollow Men T. S. Eliot Mistah Kurtz—he dead. A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass … Continue reading →

The concept of this movie is that the human race is genetically engineered to live to the age of a 25 year old, after that your bodies clock will begin to tick. You can earn time like you would money. Like today’s society the rich get richer (live forever looking like a 25 year old) … Continue reading →

“A Roller Coaster of Suck” In September, after 96 episodes, the coolest show on TV finally came to an end. Entourage’s selling point was that it was cool. It had cars, mansions, lots and lots of hot, naked, slutty tramps, the best guest stars you could ever imagine, and they topped it off with some … Continue reading →

With every scene, the writers of a show must inevitably ask themselves one simple question: “Why?”. Why are they showing this scene? How does this scene impact the characters or the show as a whole? Is this scene actually necessary? Nothing is inherently purposeful just because it makes it onto the TV screen, and it’s … Continue reading →

Repulsion, a psychological thriller directed by Roman Polanski, is a pretty good movie. At first it seems to just be another Polanski flick about chicks and jazz, but it turns out to be much more when Carole Ledoux, portrayed by Catherine Deneuve, starts cracking up! She doesn’t like men, so she stays in her sister’s … Continue reading →

Now, I know that most of you who read this site – our total of, what, 7 readers? – come here and then say: “hey, if Kevin, Andrew and Mikes can write a TV review then why can’t I?”. Then it suddenly dawns upon you as you begin to think more about your previous assertive … Continue reading →

十三人の刺客 is shockingly boring and long, but not paying attention to it gave me time to ponder one of the film’s main themes: harakiri. I don’t think about harakiri as much as I used to. I used to think about it more often than I would like to admit, but over the past year or … Continue reading →

In the TV world this week, I was treated to a bit of grim news: it was announced this week that The Simpsons would be returning for two more seasons on FOX. When news of the contract negotiations between the voice actors and FOX first appeared, I was actually quite happy to hear that the … Continue reading →

It’s fairly amusing to go to metacritic and look at the top reviews for the first couple of episodes of AMC’s The Walking Dead. The way that some critics portray this show is the equivalent of some kids going “yay! Zombies! Blood! Guts! Action! Watch Out FRANK!”. I swear to God, your head will be … Continue reading →

Money ball is a Two hour movie showing the true story of the Oakland Athletics general manager try to change a losing team into a winning team on a dime. The truth is that baseball is very unfair, because rich teams stay rich by being able to buy better players, thus winning more championships.Moneyball shows … Continue reading →

You know that feeling you get from watching an inspirational, warm hearted, motivational movie or tv show that encourages you to act differently and become a better person? You don’t get that with Always Sunny. What you do get is four long-time friends and one of the slimiest, filthiest, most putrid characters, played by Danny DeVito. The “gang” disregard … Continue reading →

Dear Andrei Tarkovsky STOP I recently watched your film Solaris STOP I think it is a brilliant psychologically complex drama and an important and challenging contribution to cinema history STOP You are unsurpassed by anyone in the creation of mood and atmosphere STOP For what it is worth your film moved me deeply STOP I … Continue reading →

Second Season Grade: A Let’s be Honest: You’re not necessarily going to have the easiest time persuading someone to start watching Louie – even fans of Louis C.K.’s comedy act may very well experience some difficulties. Whenever trying to summarize a TV show for recommendation, it’s always easiest to start by discussing the show’s big … Continue reading →

Written and directed by Leonardo DiCaprio, who also stars in the dashing lead role, The Blog is the story of a group of high-school-friends-cum-bloggers who get trapped inside the TV and film review blog they create. Eerily reminiscent of the plot of the 1982 science fiction classic Tron, the film follows the bloggers attempting to … Continue reading →

A common lament is for the underlying Eurocentrism in “world cinema”. Whenever people talk about “foreign films”, they tend to discuss the pristine aesthetics of French films, the depth of storytelling by Italian auteurs, and the cinematographic experiments taking place across much of Northern Europe. Shortsighted film critics are partly to blame for promoting such … Continue reading →

I thought hitting rock bottom would make a louder sound. Grade: F- Verdict: Watch it and then join my hate mail campaign targeting director Jean-Luc Godard, buddy!

As I left the theater, I didn’t know how to feel about Drive. Maybe it was because of the loud cries from some fat chick behind me asking for 2 hours of her life back. She also said she would have rather watched Will Smith’s Wild Wild West (silly girl, no one would rather watch … Continue reading →

Kung fu films are important for two reasons: they push the viewer to contemplate what is kinetically possible by the human body and what is metapsychologically possible by the human mind. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, directed by Liu Chia-liang and starring Gordon Liu, is a kung fu film that pushes the viewer maybe more … Continue reading →

When I heard that there is a biopic about the life of famed writer Franz Kafka, I was understandably excited. A film about the novelist who wrote The Metamorphosis (that book about that guy who inexplicably turns into a bug) and The Trial (that book about that guy who is inexplicably prosecuted by unidentified authorities … Continue reading →

Grade: A. My dad has a specific habit that he has become known for in our household: whenever there is a TV show on that has captivated me or my sister’s attention, he immediately comes to watch it with us and ask us what has happened up to this point in the show, who the … Continue reading →

Hello there. As much as the title of this post seems to come across as a potential reference to a hip-hop or electro song – or at least it does to me anyways – I’m here to discuss the foundations for this new site. Welcome to “Watch It, Buddy!”, a new review site that is … Continue reading →