Tabloid - 9/10: Errol Morris' most recent documentary about Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming, who is accused of abducting a mormon missionary. I love pretty much everything Morris does and this is no exception; McKinney is a fascinating character and the tales she spins are very interesting and in stark contrast to the testimonials of the others interviewed surrounding the incident. Many great interviews and very stylish as Morris' film usually and there are some revelations that come out through the doc which keep you interested throughout and before I knew it, the movie was over. Just an overall great, fun, interesting watch.
The Grey - 8.5: Wow, I know there have been many decent reviews out there but I was still a little trepidatious going in, but man, I really liked this movie. The setting and the bleakness/despair of the guys trapped out in the wild really comes through in the film, it's almost to the point of being depressing, but in an awesome way. Neeson is great as the gruff survivalist and the entire crew of lost guys work so well together; they bring some humanity to everything, without getting sickening or sappy. There were parts where I was worried it would just fall into the normal tropes of these types of films, but it does not get into those too often, which impressed me. The ending was awesome too. Not sure whether the theatre had the AC on or something, but I actually felt very cold watching this. Oh and it has one of the most effective plane crash sequences I've seen. Surprisingly impressed with this movie. There was a girl sitting near us who was bawling by the end of the movie; she was a disaster!
The Adjustment Bureau - 4/10: Bah, what a ridiculous movie. I liked Matt Damon and Emily Blunt together quite a bit, but in order for this movie to work you need to buy into the premise and I did not one bit. I found it completely ridiculous, full of holes, and so implausible it was laughable. I would have preferred if they had just taken the entire Adjustment Bureau stuff out of the film and had it as a straight up love story between Damon and Blunt, but as it is, the film is an abject failure. 4 points for the leads and that's it.
Unstoppable - 7/10: A lot of people seemed to like this, but I was very skeptical considering the premise, but hell, this was a lot of fun. Sure, it's contrived and pretty obvious, plus I hated all of the stupid news story interruptions along the way, but overall it was a lot of fun. I always like Denzel and Rosario Dawson is a goddess as far as I'm concerned, so while a lot of the other characters blended into the background, these two kept me rolling through the film and before I knew it, it was over. Fun watch.
KT