Epinions Recent Reviews for mynameiskenny

Iron Man: Iron Man, Iron Man, does whatever an iron can

Tue, 6 May 2008 10:54:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - With the exception of Captain America, Iron Man has always been the most political figure in the superhero world. Created by Marvel Comics in the early days of the Vietnam War, Iron Man was conceived as a commie-killing, flag-waving patriot, but popular...

The Forgotten Nominee '79: Workers of the world unite

Mon, 3 Mar 2008 05:10:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - I couldn’t have planned this better, but the last two movies I watched before Norma Rae were exactly the kind of movies that Norma Rae was the perfect antidote for. The first, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, actually...

Find out what I saw Saw IV for.

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 04:16:30 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - The rest of the movie-watching world is gearing up for the big Oscar-bait movies of the year, but me, I would rather talk about Saw IV. I think it’s far more interesting. The Saw series is of course the most prominent and successful...

Men in Gray

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:47:47 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - Spoilers: I will spoil the living bejesus out of this movie In the middle of Michael Clayton, a frustrated cop barks at the titular character, “You’ve got all these cops thinking you’re a lawyer, and all these lawyers thinking...

The Forgotten Nominee '76: Searching for the ghost of Tom Joad

Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:03:12 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - Ever take a look down the list of what the Academy has nominated for Best Picture in years past? Go on. Go take a look. I think you’ll notice that unless you’re a serious movie buff with a taste for films with heavy critical praise,...

28 Weeks Later: Zombie war is hell

Thu, 31 May 2007 16:54:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - Well, Spider-Man 3 has come and passed. Shrek the Third has arrived, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, has made its mark. To put it bluntly, this summer has shot its load early. Now, most everyone has found the movies I...

The Forgotten Nominee '91: Psychobarble

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:11:22 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - Ever take a look down the list of what the Academy has nominated for Best Picture in years past? Go on. Go take a look. I think you’ll notice that unless you’re a serious movie buff with a taste for films with heavy critical praise,...

Ghost Riders: Evil vs. Evel Knievel

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:02:04 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - What kind of person goes into a movie about a flaming skeleton who rides a motorcycle and hopes for a good movie, I wondered to myself in the theater. Well, me, for one. I wasn't expecting a good movie, really, but one can hope. I don't think that...

The Forgotten Nominee '83: Order of ham, make it a double

Wed, 7 Feb 2007 23:40:10 GMT

Ain't nothin' like the real thing, baby

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:55:08 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - Dreamgirls is a truly bizarre spectacle: a Motown musical that hates Motown. I'm not kidding. A fictional retelling of the rise of that famous Detroit record company, Dreamgirls never hesitates to remind us that Motown just sucks, sucks,...

Casino Royale: Bond-Man Begins

Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:21:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - At one point in Casino Royale, the new Bond girl asks the new Bond if killing bothers him. Of course not, is the answer, when has it ever? But something strange happens in this movie: Not only is he not bothered by killing, he actively seems to be...

Night at the Museum: Stiller sells his soul

Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:19:53 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - Night at the Museum is the latest entry in the genre I am the most tired of, the Bad-Things-Happen-to-Ben-Still
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comedy. And the movie's tiredness is compounded by the fact that it's a family movie, making it a neutered...

The Nativity Story: Greatest Story Ever Slept Through

Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:08:57 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - You know, for as much backlash as it took, I found a lot to admire about The Passion of the Christ. With its androgynous Satan, magical Garden of Gesthemane and Judas's hallucinations of demonic children, "The Passion of the Christ" established...

The Prestige: Give 'em the ol' razzle dazzle

Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:56:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - Christopher Nolan's The Prestige is a difficult little film to pin down. Nolan has made three movies previously, Memento, Insomnia, and Batman Begins. All of them were fantastic, all of them were about obsessed men with big...

Love's Banal TV-Movie

Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:51:41 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - I don't know if I'm supposed to be lenient on Love's Abiding Joy because it's a TV-movie. I do know that I didn't enjoy one single bit of it. The film, the fourth in a series of films based on the inspirational Christian books of Janette Oke, is...

The Child (L' Enfant): I Accidentally Pawned Your Son

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:38:04 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - There comes a point where naturalism just becomes an excuse for flat storytelling, and Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's L'Enfant walks that line too closely for my tastes. The last movie I saw in theaters was Sofia Coppola's Marie...

Be non-violent -- or I'll kill you.

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:25:33 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - I knew that I was going to hate The Day the Earth Stood Still from the moment that enlightened otherworldly visitor Klaatu opened his big, stupid mouth. I’m sort of amazed that this boring piece of Mystery Science Theater fodder movie has...

The first "Saw" that doesn't outright suck!

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:18:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - I'm not one to complain about violence and gore in movies. I'm not even someone who argues that it has to be justified with a heavy topic like World War II or the Crucifixion. I'm a tough guy; I can take it. Some can't, and some people argue that...

Anti-Flag

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:07:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - To say that Flags of Our Fathers is not as good as Saving Private Ryan is hardly the harshest criticism one could throw at it, but it really does suffer from the comparison. And it's unavoidable: Clint Eastwood's new film is not only shot...

The Grudge 2: Oh boy, do I have a grudge against this movie. Read for details.

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:44:45 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - I went to see The Grudge 2 on its opening day, Friday the 13th, with a girl. A very cute girl, a girl I like a lot; also a very jumpy one. I mean, she is without a doubt the most easily scared girl I have ever met, and she gripped my hand...

The Illusionist: Nothing up my sleeve

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 03:03:49 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - So tell me if you’ve heard this one before. There’s a beautiful, classy girl, and she’s in love with this romantic young artist. But she happens to be engaged to a rich, powerful man, who wants to keep the young lovers apart so that he can...

The Forgotten Nominee '71: Do the Russians love their children too?

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:46:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - Ever go to say, Wikipedia, and take a look down the list of what the Academy has nominated for Best Picture in years past? Go on. Go take a look. I think you’ll notice that unless you’re a serious movie buff with a taste for films with...

Final Destination 3: Death waits for no teen

Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:54:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - When Final Destination 3 came out, me and my friends had been waiting for it for weeks. We were pumped. Another entry into the Final Destination franchise, which had given us some of the goofiest, dumbest horror movies of the century? We...

Invincible: There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:39:52 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - Opening this week is Invincible, the true story of underdog Vince Papale, the 30-year-old bartender who tried out for the Philadelphia Eagles in the mid-' 70s, only to fail miserably, get laughed out of the stadium, and make an undignified return...

Snakes on a Plane: Oh, I'm ready for it. Come on, bring it.

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:16:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mynameiskenny - Maybe you have to be with the right crowd for Snakes on a Plane to be any good. All I know is, the audience I saw it with was definitely the right crowd. A few were clearly drunk. Many recited choice lines of dialogue with the characters...