Flick's Quick Hits - Rapid fire reviews and thoughts on a few movies at once.
Featuring: Portlandia, Samurai Champloo, Damages, and Sons of Tuscon
 | Portlandia (2011) - SNL's Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein start in this sketch comedy is basically centered on portland and all it's hipsterish activities and citizens. it's funny in spurts. Out of five? 3.5 |
 | Samurai Champloo (2004) - An Anime set during samurai era japan and overlayed with hip hop beats. Mugen and jin are swordmasters who basically are stopped from killing each other by fuu, who recruits them in the search for her father. Eh. Not a bad anime. If you're into swordplay and/or the samurai era, this may interest you. Out of 5? 3.5 There is a lull between action scenes, but when it's time to fight, shit gets real. |
 | Damages (2007) - Unscrupulous lawyer drama. Glenn close plays patty hewes, a no nonsense attorney specializing in corporate fraud, who will do whatever it takes to get money back to the people who were cheated out of it. She's a master manipulator. Expect a lot of mental chess and the desperate CEOs will do whatever it takes to keep their money. So expect deaths too. Out of 5? 4. Dramas bore me a bit, but this one was okay. Story jumps back and forth through time both giving and taking information. Kept me engrossed. |
 | Sons of Tuscon (2010) - Canceled after 4 episodes, Sons of Tuscon is actually a pretty funny series with a basic premise. After their father is jailed, for securities fraud, 3 young kids set out to find a guy to poise as their father. They find Ron, an adult slacker in need of a home + money and more they're a family. I'm not afraid to say that this was one of the shows I slept on when it aired, but it was canceled after 4 episodes. Neither Tuscon nor I had a chance to connect. Then I found it on Netflix. Out of Five? 4 |
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