Monthly Archives: September, 2011

"...arrives in carefully mapped out bits and pieces to provide an excellently executed emotional punch to the gut that while not being completely autobiographical, obviously bares authenticity from the heart and soul of writer/director Jonathan Leplitzky."

Tinker Troubled Trashed Tom: Teplitzky's Unconventional Debut Rises to the Occasions

"Whereas the female boarding school setting was once a hotbed of repression, latent lesbian tendencies, hysteria prone young ladies and fibromyalgia suffering matrons, it has now become a formula for excessive camp and unintentional laughs. Harron’s latest is only a representative example of all the reasons why this genre tends to be revamped in all the wrong ways."

"While Killer Elite does sport some decent chase scenes and meticulous action sequences, it’s resoundingly poorly conceived in every other aspect, most notably, the terrible screenplay. Jason Statham is not a strong performer, but is obviously good in action sequences. He’s saddled here with playing the assassin with a heart of gold. Killing obviously torments him, but since he’s such a good killing machine, he will never get away from “the life,” his loved ones always used against him to kill the enemies of many a nefarious figure the world over."

"Ninety-nine minutes, twenty shots, twenty cigarettes, twenty faces (ten men, ten women) - sounds exciting, doesn't it? To anyone who hasn't already been converted by one of James Benning's deceptively simple structural films, the prospect of sitting through all of Twenty Cigarettes is perhaps more toxic than a cigarette itself."