Review: Looper

Any conversation dealing with time travel it can easily become an endless debate  about the technicalities, ethics, paradoxes and impossibilities of practicing time travel. Time travel is messy and because of this it is a bit of a cheat when used as a literary device. It can get the writers into very tricky situations when the impossibilities begin to pile up, or it can be used to completely wipe a slate and start anew. Few writers have ever gotten it right, but when they do it is usually beautiful. Rian Johnson’s Looper gets it right within its own world. Unlike most time travel stories, Looper embraces the paradoxes. But more surprisingly it wipes them away in a rather clever - and intense - conclusion.

Review: THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU

            Like many Sci-Fi thrillers before it The Adjustment Bureau plays with the conflict between predestination and free will. And it has a lot of fun tossing a few ideas while Matt Damon and Emily Blunt are chased across New York by the adjusters of fate. But it doesn’t even try to arrive at a conclusion. This is not a deeply philosophical movie, and it doesn’t even pretend to be one; it is a pulpy action/romance movie and it enjoys playing with the implications of these genres.

 

Review: THE WOLFMAN

Like The Mummy, you better walk into the theater for Joe Johnston's The Wolfman with the right expectations.

You should already know that it's not a good movie - but it is solid entertainment. It's the same formula and feel of any old 80's horror film, just with great effects and much more violence.

The Wolfman

Annnnnnnnnnnd here is the trailer for Joe Johnston's The Wolfman.



Oh lord, I can't wait.