Tag: haiku

  • Haiku movie reviews, March 2015

    Haiku movie reviews, March 2015

    Song of the Sea (2014)
    Selkie seeks her voice
    Her brother’s kind of a jerk
    The spirits are saints?

    Vanity Fair (2004)
    Novel: No hero
    On Film: Reese Witherspoon stars
    Story? Doesn’t work

    2 Guns (2013)
    Rat-a-tat-tat — bang!
    Two big stars come out shooting
    The bodies pile up

    Fury (2014)
    I watched this tank flick
    Riding on an Amtrak train
    — steel machines roll on

  • Haiku movie reviews, February 2015

    Haiku movie reviews, February 2015

    Frances Ha
    Frances Ha

    I didn’t see as many movies as I’d like this past month. Just two:

    The Interview (2014)
    Randall Park steals it,
    Though it isn’t that funny.
    — Too much James Franco


    Frances Ha (2012)

    A Gen-Y woman
    In New York and then Paris
    Grows up — a little

    Read January’s haiku movie reviews here.

  • Haiku movie reviews, January 2015

    Haiku movie reviews, January 2015

    Boyhood

     

    Internal Affairs (1990)

    Cop flick from long ago

    It probably felt dated

    When it was released

     

    3 Days to Kill (2014)

    A dad and killer

    Bossed around by a hot chick

    Dumb but fun action

     

    Alex Cross (2012)

    Guy from “Lost”? Creepy

    Tyler Perry – he can act!

    So where’s the sequel?

     

    Strange Days (1995)

    Before Y2K

    Cops, murder, rape, data discs

    A fine mess for Fiennes

     

    Pride (2014)

    Gays support miners

    In Thatcher’s beastly Britain

    Wonderful friendships

     

    Selma (2014)

    Protests need clear goals,

    Strategies, tactics, leaders

    — True courage routs hate

     

    Kon-tiki (2012)

    Thor sets out to prove

    Islanders came from Peru

    — all on one big raft

     

    Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

    Disney wants Poppins

    The author has a conflict

    With her long dead dad

     

    Boyhood (2014)

    Here’s a crushing truth

    “I just thought there would be more”

    as time marches on