NoFace for Film

Title: The Quiet Earth
Year: 1985
Director: Geoff Murphy
Starring: Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Pete Smith
Rated: R
Review by: Matt H.
NoFace for Film rating: 6 out of 7
Before we get started, a little caveat for the reader: this may not be the easiest film to find. Your standard video rental outlets will be hit […]

At this point, nearly everyone has seen, or is aware of, Dreamgirls. (For an earlier review, click here.) Based on the Tony Award-winning musical by the same name, Dreamgirls was well-received by critics and won a decent number of awards. People flocked to the theaters during the holidays to watch the timeless tale of a […]

In an ongoing effort to forward information and knowledge to the masses, and taking into consideration the constraints of time and personal opinion, I give you Condensed Analysis; A handful of films reviewed in brief (more brief than a normal review) and presented all at once.
The films discussed in Condensed Analysis are not necessarily […]

Title: Spider-Man 3
Year: 2007
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring Cast: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace
Rated: PG-13
NoFace for Film rating: 3 out of 7
Hollywood has a tendency to do things big. They take a winning formula and decide that hey, since those elements worked well together last time, why not futz with them […]

Title: Night at the Museum
Year: 2006
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais
Rated: PG
Review by: Matt H.
NoFace for Film Rating: 6 out of 7
More often than not, when a film is tagged with “fun […]

Title: The Last King of Scotland
Year: 2006
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Starring: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, and Gillian Anderson
Rated: R
Review by: Matt H.
NoFace for Film rating: 7 out of 7
Perfection is a rare commodity no matter where you look. In no place is this fact put to the test more, than in Hollywood. […]

Title: Hot Fuzz
Year: 2007
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent
Rated: R
NoFace for Film rating: 5 out of 7
The brilliant folks who brought you Shaun of the Dead have returned. Whereas their last film was a clever parody of the zombie movie genre, director Edgar Wright and his leading men Simon […]

Title: Smokin’ Aces
Year: 2007
Director: Joe Carnahan
Starring: Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Andy Garcia, Alicia Keys, Ben Affleck
Rated: R
Review by: Matt H.
NoFace for Film rating: 3 out of 7
Smokin’ Aces is a classic Hollywood example of the old bait and switch. The marketing for this film resonated […]

Title: 3 Needles
Year: 2005
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Starring Cast: Lucy Liu, Shawn Ashmore, Stockard Channing, Olympia Dukakis, and Chloë Sevigny
Rated: R
NoFace for Film rating: 3 out of 7
In 1993, HBO aired a critically acclaimed film called And the Band Played On, which detailed the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic and its deadly, eventual impact on society. The […]

Title: Supertroopers
Year: 2001
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Starring Cast: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske
Rated: R
NoFace for Film rating: 5 out of 7
Silly, bumbling cops are not a new concept in cinema. In the early 1900s we had the Keystone Kops, while during the 80s we had the Police Academy series. There’s just something […]