The Kidd Vs. Chronicle
There’s still a lot to get excited about in the superhero genre. This year alone, we finally get THE AVENGERS, Marvel Studios’ culmination of all the hard work that went into creating this movie universe where superheroes and their villainous counterparts seem right at home (we’ll pretend to forget about IRON MAN 2). After that, [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Woman In Black
THE WOMAN IN BLACK desperately wants to scare you. Unlike the majority of half-assed horror films out there that just go through the motions generating your laughs more than your screams, THE WOMAN IN BLACK tries its absolute hardest to send thrills and chills through your body as a result of what you’re seeing play [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Grey
“Holy shit…” Those were the first words that managed to escape my mouth after surviving the suffocating experience of THE GREY, Joe Carnahan’s masterfully brilliant film about a group of oil workers trapped out in the middle of nowhere, battling for survival against the elements and a pack of aggressive wolves after their plane crashes. [...]
The Kidd Vs. Red Tails
It wouldn’t surprise me if somewhere throughout the annals of time, there existed a version of RED TAILS that dazzled and excited, while paying proper tribute to the legacy of the great men who helped at least bend the color barrier in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. George Lucas has been [...]
The Kidd Vs. Carnage
Roman Polanski’s new film CARNAGE, based on the play Yasmina Reza’s play God of Carnage, features strong performances from each member of the film’s wonderful cast – Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz – with intriguing dialogue covering everything from morals and values to gender roles to world views to politics [...]
The Kidd Vs. Contraband
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD If only CONTRABAND didn’t look so amateurish and feel so stupid, it might have been a decent action flick for Mark Wahlberg to proudly add to his resume. Yeah, if only… instead what audiences are subjected to is a film with way too many plot twists and character turns, most of which [...]
The Kidd Vs. Beauty And The Beast 3D
Every once in awhile, I may have my disagreements with The Mouse – renaming JOHN CARTER to get rid of OF MARS in the title, replacing Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride with that Winnie The Pooh ride in the Magic Kingdom, making PRINCE OF PERSIA, letting Eddie Murphy anywhere near THE HAUNTED MANSION, etc. – but [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Devil Inside
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD At the very beginning of THE DEVIL INSIDE, it is clearly stated that the Vatican doesn’t endorse exorcisms, but it also doesn’t endorse the film. Well, why would it? If the Vatican was finally going to put their stamp of approval on any movie, it certainly wasn’t going to be this mediocre [...]
The Kidd Vs. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY is a spy movie really in name only, because it contains spies… or wait… does it? Come to think of it, there isn’t really much in the way of spy activity, as the adaptation of John le Carré’s focuses on finding a mole at the very top levels of British intelligence. Therefore, [...]
The Kidd Vs. War Horse
I don’t know why everything surrounding WAR HORSE has been difficult for me. I tried to read the Michael Morpurgo’s novel before seeing the film, just to get a feel for the overall story, which is quite different than the movie, being that the narrative is told from the horse’s perspective. However, I couldn’t make [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Artist
How is it that on a weekly basis we’re subjected to films with the benefit of dialogue that are incapable of telling a good or even a watchable story, and yet then we get something like THE ARTIST, which uses only a few well-placed sound effects, a running musical score and no dialogue whatsoever, and [...]
The Kidd Vs. We Bought A Zoo
Cameron Crowe is typically at his best when he’s making movies with positive messages in the face of a cynical world. ALMOST FAMOUS is all about not compromising yourself and being true to who you are as you chase your passions and your dreams. JERRY MAGUIRE is about sticking by those who stick by you, [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Adventures Of Tintin
Damn you, Steven Spielberg and your beard, too, for good measure. Why did you have to wait until now, three years later than expected, to deliver an action-packed and fun Indiana Jones movie? Is it George Lucas’ absence and the substitute of Peter Jackson as producer that finally helped you to realize everything that was [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD Perhaps things would have been differently had I not taken the time to stream the original Swedish version of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, directed by Niels Arden Oplev, on Netflix awhile back. Maybe my experience would have gone a different way had I not made myself familiar with Stieg Larsson’s Millennium [...]
The Kidd Vs. Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT is an unflinching and unapologetic look at a woman who might appear normal to the naked eye, but deep down is ridiculously bat shit crazy. Charlize Theron stars as Mavis Gary, a ghost writer for a once popular young adult book series that’s on its way out. She’s a nobody heading nowhere fast. [...]
The Kidd Vs. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
The MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE film series has been hit or miss with me since I first saw Ethan Hunt take on his first mission in theatres 15 years ago. The first film remains far too complicated and complex to follow, even after being given more than a decade to fully process it. It feels far more [...]
The Kidd Vs. Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
SHERLOCK HOLMES is a bit of a hollow franchise to me. There was enough fun to be had watching Guy Ritchie’s entry into the world of SHERLOCK HOLMES a couple of years ago, based entirely on the remarkable chemistry between Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. Their pairing as Holmes and Dr. Watson walked a [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Dark Knight Rises Prologue
I’ve been really torn about the idea of watching any minutes of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES this far in advance. It’s still seven months before we get the movie in its entirety, and, while we’ll get little tastes along the way – be it trailers or posters or a viral marketing campaign that you know [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Sitter
A lot of emphasis might have been placed on Jonah Hill’s next movie 21 JUMP STREET and whether his transformative weight loss made him unfunny, as is the belief that surrounds many of our formerly hefty funny men. For some reason, the myth exists that, as comedians shed the pounds, they also shed their ability [...]
The Kidd Vs. Shame
I thought it was a rather odd decision a few weeks ago for Fox Searchlight to screen SHAME at 10:30 in the morning. Full frontal Michael Fassbender as a sex addict… that’s some pretty heavy material having just woken up not too long before stepping foot in the theatre. That was probably the point though. [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Muppets
I love THE MUPPETS. That’s about as clear as I can be about Disney’s resurrection of the Muppet brand, returning the likes of Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Beaker, Scooter, Skeeter, Animal, Rowlf, Sweetums and the rest of the gang to the big screen for the first time in 12 years. The [...]
The Kidd Vs. Hugo
It’s difficult to make an entire movie based on subtext. People want what they see on the screen to mean something. You can add all the underlying themes and messages you want, but, if, on the surface, your movie isn’t really about anything, it’s not going to connect with the audience. That’s where Martin Scorsese’s [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
I’m not a TWILIGHT hater. I will admit to being one of those geeks who hated the phenomena at its outset, railing against anything and everything TWILIGHT whenever I could before I had ever even seen it. Then I thought it’d only be fair to watch the first film all the way through, to see [...]
The Kidd Vs. Like Crazy
As part of my job, quite often, I have to sit through movies I’m really not all that interested in seeing. I always try to go into a movie with an open mind (Kevin James’ flicks usually point that idea to the test), but, because of all the material we cover here at InfamousKidd.com, we’re [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Human Centipede Part 2 (Full Sequence)
I wasn’t that crazy about the first HUMAN CENTIPEDE, as all the allure of the film came from actually seeing the human centipede fully constructed. Once that was gone, all that remained was an average horror film lacking in quality scares. The premise of the film became more of a burden than anything as THE [...]
