The Devil Inside and Contraband reviews

People hated the ending. I didn't really like the beginning or middle either.



You think yawh the only fuckin guy with a gun!?

Favorite movies of 2011

Wrote up a few favorites for CP. Some other 2011 movies I loved, in no particular order:

• The Adventures of Tintin
• A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt
  
• Attack the Block
• Battle: Los Angeles
• Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
• Bridesmaids
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Fright Night
• The Guard
• Hanna
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• The Ides of March
• Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
• Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
• 13 Assassins
• The Trip

Toast review

Burnt.

Real Steel review

Hugh Jackman! Robot boxing! Egregious product placement!

The Ides of March review

R-Gos strikes again.

Warrior review

Great MMA action and performances scuttled by absolutely insane amounts of melodrama.

Attack the Block review

Could very well be my favorite movie of 2011 thus far.

The Man Who Couldn't Eat review

Jon Reiner has written an incredible food memoir detailing his fight with Crohn's disease.

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark review

I still don't understand why this was rated R.

Taking on Auguste Escoffier's Le Guide Culinaire

Gave the Quran of Cookbooks the old I-failed-out-of college try for City Paper. Pic above pretty much sums it up. (Photo: Neal Santos)