Movie Reviews
Titles starting with L
Lucy
I scanned several reviews of this film, and there was quite a consensus: It’s fun to look at, and it gets pretty stupid toward the end. I would have to agree. It’s based on that hoary old bit of misinformation that “everybody knows,” that humans only use 10% of our brains. Pure bullshit. So right off the bat we’re dealing with bad science. But heck, that can be okay, just accept the ... Read more »
The Lunchbox
A sweet little movie. In Mumbai, there is a cadre of men known as dabbawallas. Every workday, they circulate through the suburbs collecting home-cooked lunches and then taking the train into the city, where they distribute them to workers. The service must be incredibly cheap, to compete with the numerous food stalls and carts. The system is all but infallible … but no system is perfect. ... Read more »
Luther
I couldn’t help thinking of this as the Lutheran The Passion of the Christ. Lee and I were both raised Lutheran, though she was in that wild-eyed sect known as the Missouri Synod … and what they were doing in Oregon I’ll never know. If I were Garrison Keillor, and if I thought this movie was worth the time and effort, I could make a lot of gently funny ... Read more »
Luther
Luther (2010) Somewhere in London a little girl is sealed in an airtight box, and her oxygen is running out. The only man who knows where she is (the psychopath who put her there) is dangling by his fingertips over a three- or four-story drop. DCI John Luther (Idris Elba) is standing over him. The psycho pleads for Luther to pull him up, and Luther says tell me where the girl is first. The ... Read more »