tháng 2 2011 ~ The Larsen Film Review

P.S. I Love You (2007)

This movie has been in my queue for quite some time. It can be funny how the longer and longer it takes you to watch a movie can sometimes be because you anticipate that it will not be good. Honestly for the 4 years it took me to get around to this one I had no idea that it...

This was not the film I expected at all. For some reason I expected Anne Hathaway's character to be a crazy obsessive girlfriend, but I was quite off base here. The film was nominated for two Golden Globes: Jake Gyllenhaal for actor in a comedy, Anne Hathaway for actress in...

Growing up I didn't watch a lot of movies, so there are a number of films that would make you say, "Really you never saw that?" Well this is one of those. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis with support from Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, and Tia Carrere (Wayne's...

So I really though this was a movie starring Kiefer Sutherland, Kenneth Branagh really looks like him in this movie poster. Based on true events, this film about three aboriginal girls escaping from their government camp to find their mothers across the Australian Outback. Branagh...

Every year that I watch the Oscar ballot I hope there is a stand out film that I initially didn't care much about. This is that film. Usually a nomination in the acting category, primarily in the supporting actress category are very weak films. Ones with a fantastic dramatic...

I was fully expecting and hoping to have this post out before the Oscars, but the delay of Na Wewe made that impossible. While waiting I lacked the motivation to write about the other four I had seen. Since the Oscars are over I can say that Na Wewe was the pre-Oscar favorite...

First off, I wrote this post some time ago, but getting access to The Lost Thing was delayed and I held off posting until after the Oscars. Now that things are said and done, for the first time in a decade I liked the winner the most. Each year it seems like I get more into...

I'll just get straight to the point on this one. I don't like films like this, and I didn't really want to watch it. I'd really rather skip even reviewing it, but I'm sure I'll want to look back some day and see why I disliked it so much. The truth is, it really wasn't all...

Starring Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid this sci-fi film is one that I delayed out of horror month. Not really a horror, but with scary creatures and some shock factor scenes in the dark, it could be categorized that way. Thing for me is that there just haven't been a lot of good...

Denzel Washington sure was on a hot streak with American Gangster and The Great Debaters. His last two however were not so good. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 was not very good, and The Book of Eli was actually bad.So I was pretty close to not even giving this one a chance given...

If there was an award for the worst movie title, this one would be in the running. It is almost impossible to assume that the title isn't sexual. I put this one off for a while now, expecting it to be a romance. Not to mention something inappropriate for watching in the gym...

Last year I only missed two!! Not sure if this year will be as good since there are a lot of close races. Here are my pics right before things get started. Best: Pic: The King's Speech Director: Social Network Foreign: Incendies [Mer: Biutiful] Doc: Inside Job Actor: Colin Firth (King's Speech) Actress: Natalie Portman (Black Swan) [Mer: Annette Bening] Supp...

The annual Nicole Kidman crying drama, I am starting to get used to a film like this being a lock for a Globe or Oscar nomination, in this case both. This is a film about a married couple that is struggling after the loss of a child. With an estimated budget of $5mil and a total...

The third Oscar documentary nominee for me, honestly one that I would have skipped if it would have not been nominated. I'm tired of this type of film, and there were others that I was hoping and expecting to see nominated [Waiting for 'Superman' or The Lottery]. You can't judge...

A road trip movie starring Robert Downey Jr. & Zach "snufalufagus" Galifianakis. Snufalufagus' career has really taken off since his role as Allen on The Hangover, and I can tell you right now, if you don't like his brand of humor, you won't like this movie. I'd call that...

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, the famous Spanish director, known for All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Volver, and Broken Embraces. Since this is my 5th film of his to see, and with mixed emotions about the four I just listed, I expected this to be below average. The title...

Part three of a trilogy I was expecting to be an epic rags to riches tale. It is not and that in itself was a bit of a let down. We catch up with Apu as he is signing the papers to leave school, early, without graduating. There is no explanation as to why he leaves school, but...

Last year I ran my first marathon, afterwords I started looking for some good books or magazines specifically on Marathon Running. It is amazing how many are for running your first or running in general. Not many are geared toward multiple marathons. Anyways, I found one called...

Part 3 of the Millennium Trilogy. Lisbeth [Noomi Rapace] is in the hospital and Mikael [Michael Nyqvist] is doing what he can for her case. Writing a review that talks about the film is going to completely spoil the previous two films in the trilogy. I would hope that those...

Part two of the Apu Trilogy written and directed by Satyajit Ray, the most famous Indian Director of all time. Apu is now 10 years old and his family moves to Benares for his father to find work. The middle film of the trilogy connects the two higher rated film. Much like the...

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Sound Mixing was my motivation for watching this film. I hate to say that I'm tired of Angelina Jolie action movies, but they are actually her best genre, and I expected I would watch this eventually, but the nomination inspired me to watch it...

Directed by the sexual abuser Roman Polanski, it is a little difficult for me to overlook some of the metaphors I found in this film to Polanski's situation. I'll get to that in a minute. The film is about a ghost writer, Ewan McGregor, who is hired to write a book for a former...

A biography/drama about growing up on the bad side of town in Los Angeles. By no means is this what I expected. Why? I expected this to resemble a film like Juice, starring Tupac Shakur. I was fully prepared for a drug and gun filled film was excessive violence. Since there...

Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar. Having seen 3 of the 5 documentaries they year I'm willing to gamble and say that this is my pick for the Oscar. Maybe not to win, but it was my favorite. The film...

This was one of those films were what you expect and what you get are COMPLETELY different. I went into this film expecting a George Clooney action film, instead I got a dramatic look at an aging hired assassin. The opening scenes have some shooting and you really get that...

Nominated for a golden globe for Halle Berry's performance, this film is a showcase of Berry's dramatic acting ability, as she plays a young woman with multiple personalities. Frankie is a young woman who works at a night club and goes into fits of rage. After being admitted...

###### NOTE: New film reviews posted below this one!!! ##### Now that I have seen and reviewed all 10 Best Picture nominees for the year, [the first time I've seen them all before the ceremony], I thought I'd create a quick list with hyperlinks to my reviews of...

The sports movie of the Oscar ballot, this film is another boxing movie. A sport that seems to become less popular year after year, yet continues to entice Hollywood again and again. Will UFC fighters be our heros of Hollywood films in 20 years? This film has a pretty nice cast...

Not to be confused with Casino Jack and the United States of Money the documentary about Jack Abramoff and the corruption of D.C. Lobbiest. This film is actually a dramatic retelling of the events that took place. Starring Kevin Spacey, Kelly Preston, and the unwatchable Jon...

It is interesting how you can get behind a film so much that you can be against a film you haven't even seen yet. I wanted to see The Social Network win so bad, that I almost wanted this film to be bad. Now that I've actually seen it, I've changed my mind. This film was actually...

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P.S. I Love You (2007)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

True Lies (1994)

Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

Animal Kingdom (2010)

Oscar Live-Action Short Films (2010)

Oscar Animated Short Films (2010)

Gosford Park (2001)

Pandorum (2009)

Unstoppable (2010)

In the Bedroom (2001)

My Oscar Pics

Rabbit Hole (2010)

Restrepo (2010)

Due Date (2010)

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

The World of Apu: Apur Sansar (1959)

Running Brave (1983)

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest: Luftslottet som sprängdes (2009)

The Unvanquished: Aparajito (1956)

Salt (2010)

The Ghost Writer (2010)

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

GasLand (2010)

The American (2010)

Frankie and Alice (2010)

Oscar Best Picture Rankings

The Fighter (2010)

Casino Jack (2010)

The King's Speech (2010)

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