Bear Flag Blog

Prince of Persia - 7/10 Pretty but silly. Unsurprisingly, they dropped historical elements into a multi-millenium blender, but as escapist fluff it was a fun movie to watch. The A-Team - 7/10 A fun movie if dumb as a bag of hammers; the actors… more »

The Ghost Writer - 7/10 Roman Polanski's previous film, The Ninth Gate, is one of my favorite films. I like Polanski's film direction a great deal - it doesn't hit you over the head with gimmickry or flash, it's just quietly effective, too dramatic t… more »

Avatar - 8/10 A highly enjoyable film, although not one for the thinking man. The good guys are good guys, the bad guys are bad guys, and the savages are so incredibly noble that they can actually bond with the planet through their queues. We saw… more »

A Serious Man - 3/10 It was like slowly poking an icepick into my brain. And then running electricity through it. There was a real dearth of interesting movies this fall. The miracle of babysitting arrived one Friday, and we wanted to see a film,… more »

District 9 - 7.5/10 I enjoyed District 9, and I feel a little guilty giving it only a seven and a half because I suspect that my impression is colored by the very high expectations I had going in. It was a little gorier than I would have liked, and a… more »