Ong Bak 2 is the latest Tony Jaa movie to hit states-side. Some American Tony Jaa fans might be confused by the existence of this movie after The Protector was mislabeled as Ong Bak 2 in America. Well, that wasn’t an Ong Bak sequel, and neither is this, it’s a prequel. Should you let this flying knee its way into your living room?
Definitely not Legendary.
Halo Legends is a DVD/ Blu-Ray with seven anime shorts (eight if you count Origins I & II as separate shorts) by well known anime directors. It’s usually their own take on the Halo universe and it often produces mixed results. Click the cut to see which ones are worth your time, which ones aren’t, and why.
The Men Who Stare at Goats just came out on DVD/Blu-Ray this past Tuesday, and while not even being the best George Clooney movie to come out that day (Fantastic Mr. Fox is), it’s pretty entertaining.
The movie revolves around the character of Bob Wilton( Ewan McGregor) who is a small-time reporter itching to get a big story in order to show his wife, who recently left him for his one-armed editor, his worth. He decides to go to Iraq to cover Gulf War part 2 and meets George Clooney’s character Lyn Cassaday, whose name he recognizes from interviewing a resident of his hometown that claims he was part of a secret psychic unit in the Army. Hilarity ensues? Read on to find out.
Gentlemen Broncos is the third film by husband/wife duo Jared and Jerusha Hess. Yes, their names make them sound more like a brother/sister duo. In the movie a strange home-schooled teenager named Benjamin goes to a local writing convention and submits a science fiction/fantasy novel he wrote called Yeast Lords – The Bronco Years into a contest where the winner could get a book deal. His writing hero, science fiction writer Ronald Chevalier, is the keynote speaker at the convention and one of the judges of the contest. After he is told his most recent novel isn’t good enough to be published, Chevalier reads Benjamin’s story and decides to adapt it to suit his own writing style and submit it to his publisher as his own.
Family Guy’s Something Something Something Darkside is their version of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. It starts off with a power outage and Peter deciding to tell another Star Wars story (like he did in Blue Harvest). The total run-time is a little less than an hour long and instead of explaining the whole plot, which most people already know, I’m just going to tell you what I thought worked and didn’t work. This review is quite short, so it’ll be a quick read.
The title of this post is actually the tag line for Fast & Furious, the fourth movie in a series of films based around cars and how they effect the lives of the characters. The cast of the first movie: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster, came back to make this one. It takes place in a confusing time period amoung the others in the series. I know the beginning is supposed to take place before Tokyo Drift, but is the end supposed to as well? I think only the writers are supposed to know.
Dom’s (Vin Diesel) former girlfriend Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) is murdered, he then returns to LA to find out what happened. The FBI is working a case where they are looking to shut down a drug lord they know nothing about named Braga, who is running heroin from Mexico into the United States. Dom finds out that Letty worked for Braga when she was killed so he enters a race, that if he wins, will make him eligible to drive for Braga. FBI agent Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker) also enters the race as an opportunity to get close to Braga’s operation and learn his identity so the Feds can shut him down. Dom and Brian join forces to bring down the drug cartel and bring Letty’s killer to justice.
I think I should preface this review by first saying that I am not really the comic book guy here; Andrew is that guy. I do however like comics and own about 25-30, most of them are from when I was around 10 though. I’ve been getting more into comic books and graphic novels recently, so I hope to be writing about them again after this review.
Before seeing Green Lantern: First Flight, the recently released straight to DVD/Blu-Ray movie, I didn’t know much about Green Lantern at all. I actually thought he was a black man like in the Justice League cartoon. This movie was a perfect introduction for someone like me who had no idea who Hal Jordan was or how he became a Green Lantern. A Green Lantern named Abin Sur is dying and in a spacecraft entering Earth’s atmosphere. He lands and tells his ring to find his successor; it brings Hal Jordan back to him. Abin Sur gives Jordan the ring and then he dies. Before Jordan can officially become part of the Green Lantern Corp. he must appear before a council of the Guardians, which are an immortal race that founded the Green Lantern Corp, and be approved by them. The Guardians are very skeptical of a human becoming a Lantern until Sinestro, a character who appears to be the number one Green Lantern, offers to take Jordan under his wing and train him. From there it goes on to briefly show them in a veteran/rookie cop-like situation that to me was reminiscent of the movie Training Day.
It’s hard to go into a movie while previously knowing who the cast is and having seen a couple of trailers without some bias . It’s even harder not to be biased when the cast consists of Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle (The girl from When A Stranger Calls), and Chris Evans (Johnny Storm from the Fantastic Four movies). The three of them are featured on the cover of the DVD / Blu-Ray along with Djimon Hounsou. Wait, Djimon Hounsou? Wasn’t he nominated for two Oscar‘s? What’s he doing in this movie? Oh, well, he was in Eragon and The Island too. Maybe he has a thing for cheesy Sci-Fi movies.
Push is set in what I’m pretty sure is present day China (I honestly forget, sorry). It focuses on people who have special abilities, such as: Pushers, who can ‘push’ ideas into your head and make them seem like your own; Seers, who can see the future; and Movers, who can move things using telekinesis. Djimon Hounsou plays an agent for a group called Division, which is a government organization capturing people with special abilities and attempting to amp up their powers and turn them into a type of super-soldier.
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