It's popcorn time.

Dustin Putman's Movie Reviews


Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/k/12_killingthemsoftly.htm> Killing
Them Softly
★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - A methodical slow-burn crime thriller, graphic spurts of
violence interspersed between memorably acerbic stretches of dialogue-rich
character exchanges. It's all rather self-indulgent and certainly on-the-
nose, but also knows how to keep the viewer's attention.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/k/12_killingthemsoftly.htm> Read the
Full Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/c/12_collection.htm> The Collection
★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - A rare sequel that ably tops the original in just about every
department. Trippier and more imaginative, if just as straightforward and
unburdened by complexity, the picture is sure to please fans and might even
win over some new ones.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/c/12_collection.htm> Read the Full
Review >>


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Bye Bye Foursquare

Downloaded the5.5 version yesterday and have not been able to check in
since. Looked around for solution and there is none. Why ask people to
upgrade and application if it doesn't work? I am done. Account deleted.

Thanksgiving movie marathon?

Dustin Putman's Movie Reviews


Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/h/12_hitchcock.htm> Hitchcock
★★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Select Cities on 11/23 - A motion picture for anyone who loves movies,
revels in the art of filmmaking, and appreciates the special, one-of-a-
kind, cathartic power of great horror cinema. It's endlessly entertaining,
sweeping by in an effortless 98-minute gush, and also unexpectedly moving.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/h/12_hitchcock.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/l/12_lifeofpi.htm> Life of Pi
★★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - One of the year's most gripping dramas, a visual wonderstruck
with an emotional chord that reverberates far beyond the awesome imagery.
"Life of Pi" is destined to astound audiences who presumptuously believe
they've seen it all.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/l/12_lifeofpi.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/r/12_reddawn.htm> Red Dawn
★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - Viewers willing to check their brains at the door and go along
for the ride will find it a suitably exciting, if not exactly tougher or
smarter, version of subject matter that is timely in an entirely different
way than it was nearly thirty years ago.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/r/12_reddawn.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/r/12_riseoftheguardians.htm> Rise of
the Guardians
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - A wasted concept that fails to take advantage of its own
originality. Cold and distant, the film smells like a project completed by
committee, its quirkiness either shaved off or the wrong kind. When all is
said and done, there isn't a whole lot worth remembering.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/r/12_riseoftheguardians.htm> Read the
Full Review >>


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A thought for Thanksgiving........

<http://www.wishafriend.com/quotes/qid/10096/> Let us remember that, as
much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage
comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Sneak one in before the crowds next weekend

Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/b/12_breakingdawn2.htm> Breaking Dawn
Part 2
★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - A sincere, handsomely mounted farewell that brings honest to
goodness legitimacy-if only a very little-to its place in the cinematic
history books. One thing is for sure: all involved saved the best for last.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/b/12_breakingdawn2.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/s/12_silverliningsplaybook.htm>
Silver Linings Playbook
★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Select Cities, Nationwide 11/21 - A bittersweet romantic comedy, plain and
simple, and, by the time it has added in subplots involving dance
competitions and football superstitions, also rather unwieldy.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/s/12_silverliningsplaybook.htm> Read
the Full Review >>


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It's movie time!

Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/i/12_intheirskin.htm> In Their Skin
★★★ (out of ★★★★)

VOD & Select Cities - "In Their Skin" isn't reinventing the language of
cinema or anything of that sort, but it is very good all the same at
putting its audience in the place of a family whose identities, as well as
lives, are at stake.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/i/12_intheirskin.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/l/12_lincoln.htm> Lincoln
½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - Easily the year's most disappointing film. Whatever happened
on this woebegone project's way from idea to page to screen, one thing is
certain: it's all gone disastrously wrong.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/l/12_lincoln.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/s/12_skyfall.htm> Skyfall
★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - Director Sam Mendes surprisingly brings the series around full
circle while once again enticingly redefining it. "Skyfall" is still too
self-serious for its own good and attempts at giving it a lighter edge fall
flat, but there is the suggestion at the end that this new, remodeled Bond
is still only getting started.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/s/12_skyfall.htm> Read the Full
Review >>


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A patio deck for a condo!

A client recently asked us to build deck for their condo patio. One
requirement. No visible screw or nails. Team BJGE just installed the first
section!!

Fall weekend plans?

Dustin Putman's Movie Reviews


Opening This Week:

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/a/12_amberalert.htm> Amber Alert
★★ (out of ★★★★)

VOD & Select Cities - "Amber Alert" is less exploitative than the title
suggests, but too far-fetched to buy into the characters' cockamamie
actions. There is, perhaps, a smart film to be made on the same frightening
subject. This isn't it.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/a/12_amberalert.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/b/12_bay.htm> The Bay
★★½ (out of ★★★★)

VOD & Select Cities - "The Bay" does not abide by conventional
storytelling, and yet one cannot deny that it is genuinely creepy, a
paranoid environmental horror picture where there is no escape from an
awful fate once infected.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/b/12_bay.htm> Read the Full Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/f/12_flight.htm> Flight
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - The film fully transforms into the "Afterschool Special" it's
been flirting with all along, trading tough complexity for strained,
unrealistic patness. "Flight" proves to be both smug and too on-the-nose by
a half.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/f/12_flight.htm> Read the Full Review
>>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/n/12_northseatexas.htm> North Sea
Texas
★★ (out of ★★★★)

Select Cities - In the annals of gay cinema about growing up, "North Sea
Texas" is, regrettably, an unoriginal and rather disposable take on a
subject that's been done much better in the past.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/n/12_northseatexas.htm> Read the Full
Review >>

<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/w/12_wreckitralph.htm> Wreck-It Ralph
★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - The story of two underdogs who finally get their day in the
sun, "Wreck-It Ralph" probably won't endure like the best of Disney's
animated canon, but it's a slight, well-meaning entertainment all the same.
<http://www.dustinputman.com/reviews/w/12_wreckitralph.htm> Read the Full
Review >>


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