Blogcritics Author: Derek Fleek

DVD Review: The Italian Job - Special Collector's Edition

Derek Fleek — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:37:14 EST

Both style and substance can be found in this thrilling adventure.
Though not familiar with the original 1969 movie of the same name, as a stand-alone film The Italian Job swiftly moves along without any narrative hogwash and sufficiently provides a smooth combination of light humor and top-notch entertainment. With an all-star cast that includes Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Mos Def, Seth Green,...

DVD Review: The Good Life

Derek Fleek — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:41:16 EST

It's a bore from start to finish, essentially because of the pedestrian plot and below standard chemistry.
My dislikes for melodramas emerges as The Good Life begins and ends with a prosaic tone and never recovers from senseless direction and monotonous acting. I hated this film. It's a bore from start to finish, essentially because of the pedestrian plot and below standard chemistry.Jason (Mark Webber) is a young man determined to make his unsteady...

DVD Review: Space Chimps

Derek Fleek — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:42:14 EST

The dense script, lousy animation, and myriad attempts at making torturous puns humorous becomes nearly unbearable.
With screenwriters Robert Moreland (Happily N'Ever After) and Kirk De Micco (Racing Stripes) at the helm of the scripting, you can't expect a tour de force storyline. What you can expect is a less than mediocre film, or in this case, the worst animated film of the year.Ham III (Andy Samberg) is a circus monkey who mastered the art of...

Movie Review: Get Smart

Derek Fleek — Sat, 8 Nov 2008 08:40:53 EST

Missed it by that much!
I'm sure most remember the popular television series Get Smart from the mid-'60s, mainly because of Don Adams' hilariously silly performance as Maxwell Smart. Taking the role here is Steve Carell, who indeed looks like Don Adams, but does he have the flair to be the bumbling CONTROL agent Maxwell Smart?After CONTROL becomes infiltrated...

DVD Review: What We Do Is Secret

Derek Fleek — Sat, 1 Nov 2008 01:16:55 EDT

It's a punk opera of great acting, bad music, and stylish period designs.
What We Do Is Secret follows the struggles and corrupt success of punk icon Darby Crash (Shane West) and his band The Germs, from the gathering of band members to the downfall of Crash and his addiction to drugs. The music is loud and the band is destructive. One band member even jokes about their name being The Germs simply because the music is...

DVD Review: Hell Ride

Derek Fleek — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:59:42 EDT

Hell Ride basically plays out like a broken record, repeating gratuitous nudity, vindictive violence, and ceaseless drug use regardless of whether or not it makes any sense at all.
In tradition to the motorcycle flicks made popular in the late '60s and early '70s, Hell Ride basically plays out like a broken record, repeating gratuitous nudity, vindictive violence, and ceaseless drug use regardless of whether or not it makes any sense at all. It can be amusing (at times I did have fun with it) if you can subdue the...

Movie Review: Y.P.F.

Derek Fleek — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:53:26 EDT

Don't pioneer yourself into vulgar mode, this is sweeter than its risqu� title might suggest.
You might not have heard of it, but if you have you won't soon forget its suggestive title. The film, so aptly titled Young People Fucking, is broken up into the five phases of sex: prelude, foreplay, sex, interlude, orgasm, and afterglow. Using these as the order of events, it cuts between five ordinary and unusual couples (The Friends, The...

DVD Review: Finding Amanda

Derek Fleek — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:35:46 EDT

Finding Amanda raises the rhetorical question -- is there really anything funny about a man falling off the wagon?
What happens in this movie should've stayed in the studios. With a total of only two movies (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Glory) considered good in the eyes of many, Matthew Broderick's career doesn't show much signs of upgrade with Peter Tolan's sleazy, anti-romantic comedy Finding Amanda. A comedy writer for a television show has...

DVD Review: South of Pico

Derek Fleek — Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:15:49 EDT

...its staining effect and penetrating look into the tortured souls of many good-hearted people is an eye-opening and painfully moving experience.
This unpleasant, heart-sinking drama stuns its audience with its painfully honest ending and unspeakable occurrences beforehand. South of Pico easily ranks among cinema's most harrowing and distraught dramas including Sleepers, Bully, and Kids. While somewhat relevant to Crash provided that a tragedy links these strangers together, it never...

DVD Review: Pulse 2: Afterlife

Derek Fleek — Fri, 3 Oct 2008 01:20:00 EDT

Suffering from numerous flaws and a tug-o-war of bad scripting and directing, Pulse 2 honestly has no redeeming qualities.
Practically smothered by the stolidus script, a frustratingly slow pace, inert characters, and poor acting, Pulse 2 is a recipe for disaster. This sequel to the unpopular J-horror remake has qualities strikingly similar to M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening (mass suicide attempts by jumping off ledges, stabbing oneself with scissors, and other...