tháng 11 2010 ~ The Larsen Film Review

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

Sarah Polley stars in a film about a tragedy in a small town involving a school bus wreck on a snowy morning. Polley plays the only survivor that has to deal with the parents attempting to put together a lawsuit against the town. Ian Holm plays the lawyer, hired by Polley's...

The American Film Institute spent a decade creating Top 100 lists from American Cinema, the 100 Thrills, Passions, Laughs, Cheers, All-Time, Villains, etc. But they also started something new at the turn of the Century. They started releasing a top 10 American Films of the Year...

The nominees from the 2009 Oscars (all released in 2008) for live action were a little more trouble for me to get a hold of this time around. The 2007 and 2008 Shorts were all released as a collection by Magnolia films. Starting in 2009, and again this year, they started releasing...

Shrek "4"ever after, the 4th movie in the series that won't go away. Hey, at least they are keeping Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, and Cameron Diaz busy so there are working less on crap like Norbit, The Love Guru, and Charlie's Angels. This one was a rebound for me from the 3rd...

Films like this remind me that I am not a student of film. I never studied it and I could care less about how fluid the film was or the social commentary, or whatever metric that doesn't add up to an enjoyable and interesting storyline. The fact is, this movie was dull. The...

Wow am I lost. Does anyone remember details from a movie they saw a decade ago? I started writing this blog to remind myself of all the movies I watch. I don't see how anyone will understand what is going on in this movie without the first six films even a little fresh in their...

In 1994 Ken Burns released a 19 hour documentary about the entire history of baseball. I watched the entire thing this past summer, reviewed HERE. To my surprise he released a "10th inning" continuation to the series, originally airing on PBS the last week of September. The...

With the announcement of the Oscar Documentary Short list, a list of the 15 finalists to get one of five Oscar nominations, I have started to look into watching these films. This one, considered by a few to be a front runner at the award this year, is one of the few already...

Sometimes simple drama, character studies can be the most interesting films of the year. Ebert seemed to think so when he saw this one at a festival, liked it so much, and featured it in his own festival later that year in Chicago. Another one that I happened across at the library,...

I've noticed myself hating on Pixar for no reason lately. I think people are tired of seeing them win everything. Personally I get annoyed because my favorites (like Ratatouille) get less recognition than the ones I didn't like (Up or Cars). Before watching this one I watched...

I'm not sure how to describe why I didn't like this movie. I didn't hate it, and the cast was likable for the most part. I just thought that rather than have plot holes they just decided to tell us nothing. We don't know why they are on a mystery planet. We don't know why they...

Nominated for the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and one of Eberts favorite films of 2008, I happened across this film at the library and since it was fairly short I gave it a shot. Let me start by saying that there are some opinions expressed in this documentary...

This film makes Brokeback Mountain look like a G rated film. It opens with a sex scene that made me walk out of the room. I waited for it to end to come back in, then had to decide if I should even bother watching the rest of the film. The Asian couple are then looking for a...

Oops, I didn't know what I was getting into on this one. I'm sure I would have avoided it if I would have known that Megan Fox was in it. Sadly Josh Brolin and John Malkovich were not enough to make this film good. With an estimated $47 million budget and only grossing $11...

This is the emotional war movie I expected The Messenger to be. A film that breaks your heart then drags you through a families misery. It is a difficult film to watch but some great acting from a young cast. Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire are husband and wife. Just before...

An Italian epic film about a village in Sicily. An autobiographical film following three generations of the Tornatore family. Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore and focusing mainly on his fathers generation, this film was very long and hard to stay interested in. Nominated for...

This winner of 4 Oscars in 1984 was the final film for me to finish several imdb lists (2004 and 2005 top 250 to be exact).Best picture nominee in the 1984 Oscars that lost out to an emotional film featuring a retired astronaut, Terms of Endearment. This film was nominated...

I'm not quite sure were to begin with this one. It was nothing like what I expected from seeing it on people's "Best" lists. The film was nominated for an Oscar last year for some sort of film editing. It starts out with some fantastic action sequences introducing countless...

Nominated for a Golden Globe in the foreign language category. This Spanish speaking film based in Mexico and partially in Chile was actually pretty interesting to me. Raquel (Catalina Saavedra) is a live-in maid that has been with the family half of her life. She acts as if...

The hard to find fifth and final documentary from last years Oscar nominations. I've talked a lot about the other films that "should" have been nominated without seeing the last one that actually was. Probably the most controversial subject manner of the nominees as well, regarding...

Nominated for an Oscar for costume design, basically the end scene showcasing the Chanel line was enough for the nomination alone. On the other hand the entire film has great costumes, but the main thing is that the film has substance as well.I consider this a sleeper. Nothing...

A film about a struggling music hall in Paris in the 1930's. Starring Gérard Jugnot, Nora Arnezeder, and Clovis Cornillac, this is just an average foreign film with a decent storyline.I didn't see this as a standout film, it was only nominated for a song, and the film borders...

Thank god I didn't know what I was getting myself into on this one. Easily the worst film of the Oscar ballot of the year, right next to the other A ___ Man movie [A Serious Man]. The film is about a college professor, Colin Firth, struggling with the loss of his gay lover....

Ben Foster, better known to me as a villain in films like Alpha Dog and a fantastic job with the film 3:10 to Yuma, plays the leading role here. He is a man just returned from the war in Iraq with slight injuries including a bad eye that is still undergoing medical consultation.Home...

I'll try not to bash this movie too much. You know what you are getting yourself into, as far as characters and theme. It is pretty easy to figure out what is going to happen and watching doesn't require much thought.Here is the problem I had with the movie... it didn't make...

Considered the first British talkie film. This is an Alfred Hitchcock thriller about a shopkeeper's daughter and the criminal mess she gets herself and her detective boyfriend mixed up in.The plot is simple, Detective Webber is too caught up in his work to spend time with his...

November is catch up on last years Oscar and Golden Globe nominees month. Usually at this point the foreign films are finally out on dvd and finishing the ballot is actually possible without going to the theater for 3 days straight.This film taking place in Israel is one of...

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The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

You Can Count on Me (2000)

Oscar Live-Action Short Films (2008)

Shrek Forever After (2010)

The Rules of the Game: La règle du jeu (1939)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (2010)

Baseball: The Tenth Inning (2010)

Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)

Man Push Cart (2005)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Predators (2010)

I.O.U.S.A. (2008)

Happy Together: Chun gwong cha sit (1997)

Jonah Hex (2010)

Brothers (2009)

Baarìa (2009)

The Right Stuff (1983)

Il Divo (2009)

The Maid: La Nana (2009)

Which Way Home (2009)

Coco Before Chanel (2009)

Paris 36: Faubourg 36 (2009)

A Single Man (2009)

The Messenger (2009)

Sex and the City 2 (2010)

Blackmail (1929)

Ajami (2009)

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