Archive for February, 2009

House Season 5: The Softer Side

House is acting different, acting as if he isn’t in pain and nice. Neither of which are him, setting Wilson and Cuddy on his tail. Wondering if he’s doing heroin. House is acting so nice that he’s even dealing with patients and doing what they ask. They only problem is that House is taking drugs, legally but the down side in taking methadone which if he falls asleep, he may not wake up. Concerened Cuddy tells him to either stop or to leave the hospital. House deciedes to leave. Forcing Cuddy to accept that it might be what’s best for him, and forcing her to give him his job back but with stipulations. House takes his job back, and quickly wraps up the case. Realizing that becuase he wasn’t himself he created a case because of a needless procedure. An Intereitng episode overall I’d give it an 8 out 10.

The International

Clive Owen stars in an interesting but rather dull movie. Staring across from Namoi Watts who delivers a good performance but rather flat delivery. The movie revolves around the idea of a Bank controlling weapons but not for the money that they would get for the weapons. While it is a good and interesting movie that has a decent plot line. The movie gets a little preachy but is enjoyable overall. The saving factor would have to be Clive Owen but not until the end. A good solid movie but slightly dull, a good movie for a rainy night when you don’t have anything better to do. I’d give it a 6 out of 10.

House M.D. Season 5: Unfaithful

House goes about being house in the new episode of House M.D. Running around trying to bend people to his will. Religion a Nemesis of House, pops up in two different facets of Houses life. In his patient whom is a priest and Cuddy getting her baby blessed in a Jewish ceremony. House also goes after 13 and Foreman relationship. House doesn’t want anyone to be happy. His case involves a drunk priest who thinks he saw Jesus, unfortunately the case is only slightly interesting, and the episode overall is good and solid but pretty average. I’d give it a 6 out of 10. There are much better episodes of house out there and this one should be pretty quickly forgotten, unless of course you happened to love/like the episode.

The Wrestler

If you go in to this movie expecting a pure wrestling movie, you may be disappointed by the results. Mickey Rourke does a solid job of bringing his character to life, and the surrounding characters do a solid job of bringing the world surrounding the movie to life. But for all of it’s solidity something about the Wrestler makes me say it’s only a decent film. I don’t know if it was the pace of the film, which moved along quite nicely or just the length. Maybe it’s the way it ended, but it just felt like some aspects could have been fleshed out. I really liked the movie sound track especially the wrestler by Bruce Springsteen. It’s a good solid movie that could go a long way in reviving Mickey Rourke career, and as long as he does interesting roles he should continue to excel. The Wrestler is a good solid film, that lacks something to make it a great memorable film. I don’t know maybe someone can point it out to me. I have to give the film a 7 out 10. It’s a good and solid film, one that is worth going to see in theaters.

Flight of the Conchords: The Tough Bretts

After dissing a lot of rappers, Brett starts up a gang to defend himself. Of course no one actually threatens Brett so he has a gang for no other reason then having one. Jemaine feeling left out decides to hang out with Murray, who is getting picked on by the Australian consulate. Mel paints a picture of Jemaine who throws it away, because he can’t tell her he doesn’t like it. Everyone including Doug has hurt feelings, excluding Brett who’s trying to keep his gang together after kick a kid in the leg. In the end Brett final asks Jemaine to join the gang but Dave tells him to get out because of the dangers. An Interesting episode not the best one so far but it’s good for a few laughs. I’d give it an 8 out of 10.