Posts Published by MooreLamarre

Unfaithful

I love doing these reviews, but they don’t pay the bills. In fact, I still have to pay to see most movies, so I don’t bother seeing movies that are obviously not worth my time….

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Big Daddy

One of the things I’m proud of as a film critic is that I’m able to enjoy all kinds of movies. I don’t mean that I’m too easily please; it’s just that I can appreciate…

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In Good Company

“I totally phoned in that Dennis Quaid movie!” So said Topher Grace in Ocean’s Twelve, but don’t take him seriously. I’ve yet to see the guy be less than charming and hilarious on screen. Even…

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UHF

Where the hell has “Weird Al” Yankovic been? Besides an offhand reference in last year’s “Ghost World”, I haven’t heard of him since he released the amusingly titled album “Running with Scissors” back in 1999….

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Closer

When perverted dermatologist Larry (Clive Owen) asks angelic stripper Alice (Natalie Portman) what she thinks of photograph Anna (Julia Roberts)’s pictures, she answers that “it’s a lie”, a “bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully” so…

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Vertigo

This is one of the single most masterful pictures ever made. I had the privilege of first seeing it as it was meant to be watched, i.e. in a movie theater in a grandiose, newly…

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The Karate Kid

A remake of “The Karate Kid”? Produced by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith and starring their son? Sounds like a pointless, ego-driven, “let’s cash in on the nostalgia factor while also giving our boy the…

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