Stories by Eileen Jones
Posted on May 3, 2012, Source: eXiled Online
The mumblecore cancer has spread.
Posted on Mar 30, 2012, Source: eXiled Online
Let's consider this fat sloppy hit film The Hunger Games. Frankly, as a film, it's nothing to tweet about.
Posted on May 24, 2011, Source: eXiled Online
It's a great film education watching Rob Marshall, the director replacing Gore Verbinski, wreck the Pirates franchise in one go.
Posted on May 17, 2011, Source: eXiled Online
Bridesmaids is apparently a big deal. If we don’t all go see it, there will never be another movie made about women again. Or something like that.
Posted on May 10, 2011, Source: eXiled Online
The latest superhero 'biopic' reinforces great shocker that Hollywood's only in it for the money
Posted on Mar 10, 2011, Source: eXiled Online
Rango has put the fangs back into children’s entertainment.
Posted on Mar 1, 2011, Source: eXiled Online
Libertine elites or boozy couches -- this is us.
Posted on Dec 29, 2010, Source: eXiled Online
Critics need to chill about the Coens' lack of proximity to the original film, and see the new version for the great work it is.
Posted on Feb 16, 2010, Source: eXiled Online
It's a spoof of the James Bond-type spy genre, which doesn't sound too good, but never underestimate what Adam Reed of Sealab 2021 can do with moldy genre spoofs.
Posted on Aug 29, 2009, Source: eXiled Online
It's all eye-poppingly impressive, and the relentlessness of it will still make you want it to stop as you head deep into hour three.
Posted on Aug 18, 2009, Source: eXiled Online
There are a couple of strokes of genius in District 9 that renew hopes for the future of genre film.
Posted on Jul 20, 2009, Source: eXiled Online
So Harry Potter, the latest one. How many more to go? Only two? Well, good, that means they'll finish up before the kids turn 30.
Posted on Jun 3, 2009, Source: eXiled Online
Pixar, the inheritor of Disney's cheesy style, has been pushed to dangerously high glucose levels with their new animated film.
Posted on Oct 22, 2008, Source: eXiled Online
You can practically feel Oilver Stone sitting behind you, breathing on the back of your neck and willing you to see the brilliance of his vision.
Posted on Jul 5, 2008, Source: AlterNet
"Hancock" is supposed to be a wry commentary on the pressure of being Will Smith, but the message gets lost in a big-budget Hollywood train wreck.
Posted on Jun 16, 2008, Source: AlterNet
M. Night Shyamalan's latest film is about an airborne mystery toxin that causes people to kill themselves -- and it's not bad.
Posted on May 26, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Spielberg's inventiveness fails a half-hour into the latest Indiana Jones , but the rest of the movie coasts on its zillion-dollar budget.
Posted on May 19, 2008, Source: AlterNet
This movie is so long, so slow, so cheesy, so pumped full of phony computer graphics that there's nothing to stop it from making a billion dollars.
Posted on Apr 26, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The iconic teens come face to face with the injustices at Gitmo -- and young audiences are going to eat it up.
Posted on Apr 2, 2008, Source: The eXile
'Ah signed up thinkin' Ah was goin' there fer mah country.' Hayseed accents can't hide the film's glamorization of war.
