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Movie Review – Transformers (2007)
by GEOFF GEIB I don’t hate Michael Bay. Like fellow pop-culture pariah Brett Ratner, Bay suffers unjust criticism from a world that agonizes over enormous box office receipts without the corresponding...
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DVD of the Week – The Lookout (2007)
by GEOFF GEIB One of the great pleasures of The Lookout is the progression of the characters through the story in a logical, intelligent way but within a framework of inevitability. Things are not...
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Movie Review – The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
by GEOFF GEIB It is a little disappointing that the third installment of the excellent Bourne trilogy is the epitome of the style vs. substance debate. I think I hear the candidates in the background....
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Movie Review – Superbad (2007)
by GEOFF GEIB Judd Apatow, he of Freaks and Geeks and The 40 Year Old Virgin fame, is like a really good pop song. On an intellectual level, you just know it’s not that great, and yet you find yourself...
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Movie Review – Halloween (2007)
by GEOFF GEIB Rob Zombie burst onto the movie scene in 2003 with the electric House of a 1000 Corpses, a punishing, brutal homage to 70’s horror films like Last House on the Left and The Texas Chainsaw...
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Movie Review – Shoot ‘em Up (2007)
by GEOFF GEIB This is a movie where the hero kills hundreds of people in a never-ending frenzy of bullets and carrots. I liked it. Of course, it’s difficult not to like a movie with Clive Owen in it....
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Movie Review – Eastern Promises (2007)
by GEOFF GEIB Fresh from the exhilarating A History of Violence, director David Cronenberg returns with a deceptively straightforward tale of the Russian mafia in London. The central preoccupation of...
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Top Ten Films of 2007 by Geoff Geib
by GEOFF GEIB 1. Eastern Promises The entire movie pulsates with an urgency and rage that belies its calm exterior and plays just a fraction under the surface. There is only so long before it will boil...
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Movie Review – Redbelt (2008)
by GEOFF GEIB Oh, David Mamet, how I love your halting, sparse, profanity laden dialogue from a bygone age. It’s just so…well, it is what it is and indeed it is, and it’s just so f*#king nifty. Mamet’s...
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Movie Review – The Dark Knight (2008)
by GEOFF GEIB Prepare yourself, gentle viewer, for The Dark Knight is very, very dark. In every film version of the caped crusader since Tim Burton’s fine Batman through the astonishingly wretched...
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Movie Review – The Reader (2008)
by GEOFF GEIB The Reader is surprisingly moving considering the majority of its running time is spent as a stilted, excessively somber treatise on German complicity with the Nazi atrocities of the...
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Movie Review – The Wrestler (2008)
by GEOFF GEIB After the almost absurdly earnest The Fountain, Darren Aronofsky’s latest confection marks both a continuation of this most admirable filmmaking sensibility and a departure with a film...
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Top Ten Films of 2008 by Geoff Geib
by GEOFF GEIB 2008 was the worst year I have spent at the movies in my adult life. This is partly the fault of Hollywood (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Happening, The Love...
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Movie Review – Inception (2010) [Geoff Geib]
by GEOFF GEIB Is it me or is Christopher Nolan finally starting to have fun? With a body of work now rivaling the best contemporary directors, it’s possible to take a step back and view his filmography...
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Desperado: My All-Time Favorite Guilty Pleasure
by GEOFF GEIB Film critic Pauline Kael famously once wrote/said [1], “Movies are so rarely great art, that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them.” One...
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Two Lists, Ten Favorites: Films of Martin Scorsese
by GEOFF GEIB, NIR SHALEV and HELEN GEIB An occasional feature where the writers compare their five favorite films by some of the greats of world cinema. Martin Scorsese (b. 1942) GEOFF’S TOP FIVE To...
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Two Lists, Ten Favorites: Films of David Mamet
by HELEN GEIB, GEOFF GEIB and NIR SHALEV An occasional feature where the writers compare their five favorite films by some of the greats of world cinema. This edition should properly be titled “Three...
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Favorites Corner: Films of Billy Wilder
by HELEN GEIB, GEOFF GEIB and NIR SHALEV An occasional feature where the writers compare their five favorite films by some of the greats of world cinema. A change in format for this edition because...
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Top Ten Films of 2012 (Geoff Geib)
by GEOFF GEIB Ten Best Films of 2012, in no particular order. 1. The Grey a/k/a Punches With Wolves 2. The Raid: Redemption Absolutely astonishing martial arts movie, but the worst title of 2012 3....
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Favorites Corner: Films of Wong Kar-wai
by GEOFF GEIB and HELEN GEIB An occasional feature where the writers compare their favorite films by some of the greats of world cinema. Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) In the Mood for Love (2000) GEOFF (#1):...
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