Movies, and my thoughts on them.
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in July. Stats Movies watched – 15 Movies that were new to me – 10 Westerns – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – Rio Bravo, Duck Soup, Gaslight July 26 Rio Bravo (1959) - Howard Hawks …
For someone who has always been a silent comedy fan, it took me a while to give the humor of the Marx brothers a chance. Sure, the visual gags were still there, especially with Harpo …
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in June. Stats Movies watched – 10 Movies that were new to me – 8 Shite foreign films – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – This is Spinal Tap June 27 Man …
This is Spinal Tap is not the first "mockumentary," but it is probably the most famous one. And, in a time when the genre can be seen all over film (Borat, Bruno, and the slew …
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in May. Stats Movies watched – 15 Movies that were new to me – 9 Star Trek movies – 3 Monthly Masterpieces – The Adventures of Robin Hood, Out …
For the uninitiated, film noir can be a disappointing thing. The colorful dialog often veers dangerously close to camp Calvin and Hobbes "Tracer Bullet" self-parody, while the B-movie visuals sometimes aren't quite as stylish as …
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in April. Stats Movies watched – 14 Movies that were new to me – 13 John Carpenter movies – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – none April 27 Slomo (2013) - …
Gummo is a movie people either hate or love. Or, more accurately, Gummo is a movie people either hate, or are apologists for--and today I guess I will be taking the apologist tack. After all, …
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in March. Stats Movies watched – 11 Movies that were new to me – 7 John Carpenter movies – 4 Monthly Masterpieces – Battleship, Deliverance, Beware of a …
German director R.W. Fassbinder has always been fascinated with the human desire for love and the soul crushing games of power that the human desire for love wreaks on those who attempt to be loved. …