Shoot the Glass

I love epics. Grand sweeping shots of beautiful landscape, stories spanning decades, characters larger than life. I rarely mind the runtime and I love just sitting down on a Sunday afternoon to watch a three- or four-hour movie. Lawrence of Arabia is among my favourite movies ever.
Australia though, was just a little too much. Baz [...]

Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) is getting married, and her sister Kym (Anne Hathaway) is out of rehab for the occasion. Kym’s appearance throws her family into disarray, and everyone is forced to deal with various problems simmering under the surface. Sounds good? It’s really not.
The IMDb synopsis says that the movie “paints a colorful, nuanced family [...]

The Brothers Bloom is Rian Johnson’s follow-up to 2005’s brilliant high school noir Brick. Personally, I couldn’t wait to see what Johnson would do next. What he has done is take on the conman subgenre, and weaved it into a rich and very entertaining romp about two brothers.
The movie is about Bloom (Adrien Brody) and [...]

You would have to have lived under a rock not to have heard the fangirls screaming about Twilight for the last six months. Some people called it a Harry Potter-killer, as if the two couldn’t co-exist. What inane reasoning is that?
This movie, which is based on the best-selling novels by one Stephenie Meyer, follows [...]

Harold (Bud Cort) is young, privileged, and obsessed with death. He frequents funerals of people he doesn’t know, and stages mock suicides to his mother’s great annoyance. He has no friends. At a funeral he meets 79-year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon), and the two strike up an unlikely friendship. Maude, unlike Harold, is full of life, [...]