Django Unchained

Full disclosure: I
Am a big Tarantino
Fan, and love westerns

I was predisposed
To really like this movie.
Slick, funny, gruesome,

And too cool for school
A well-acted though choppy
Revenge fantasy,

It lived up to, but
Didn't surpass any of
My expectations.

The Hobbit (non-3D, non-48 fps)

Yes, it felt dragged out.
Yes, it was underwhelming.
Yes the characters

Were regretfully
Underdeveloped. Not to
Mention how crazy

It is that they are
Eeking three movies out of
One fairly short book.

Despite all of that
Returning to Middle Earth
Was a lot of fun.

Looper

A dark and brutal
Drama disguised as sci-fi,
A thriller with brains,

 Looper will make you
Think, just not about happy,
Fun, or pleasant things.

Top-notch direction
And a nicely streamlined plot
Keep it all moving.

While a unique take
On time travel makes up for
The super-grim tone.

Sleepwalk With Me

Mike Birbiglia's
Charming, bittersweet tale of
A sleep disorder

And how it caused him
To (eventually) be
A better man and

Do better on stage.
A fairly lightweight story
Taken mostly from

His standup routines
It is cute, funny, well made,
And winningly short.

Resident Evil: Retribution (IMAX 3D)

Not a good movie
But at least a fun one, it
Shares a lot with the

Last movie I saw
In IMAX, Avatar. Both
Have bad acting, great

Action, and I found
The ridiculousness was
Rather endearing.

RE wins out though,
It doesn't take itself at
All seriously.

The Expendables 2

The dumbest movie 

To be released this year, I

Really enjoyed it.

Less a movie, more

The best videogame I'll

Never get to play.

Better action than

Part one, with more silly one-

Liners and even

Worse dialogue. It

Has everything you'd expect,

Both the good and bad.

Beasts of the Southern Wild

An original
And unflinching (though somehow
Not pretentious) tale

Of a girl finding
Her place in the universe,
It is a creole

Winter's Bone with a
Much younger yet equally
Intense lead actress.

Q* Wallis carries
The whole movie on tiny,
Impressive shoulders.


*Her first name is actually Quvenzhané, I'm guessing it is four syllables, but I wasn't confident enough to try to include the whole thing.