Film
Monthly Movie Reviews – March, 2013
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 Holy Whore March 31 Battleship (2012) – Every now and then a Hollywood movie comes along that makes me rethink the…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 39 – Beware of a Holy Whore (R.W. Fassbinder, 1971)
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. In today’s film, the bridge between his earlier masterpieces (which began in 1969 with Love is Colder than Death) and…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – February, 2013
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in February. Stats Movies watched – 11 Movies that were new to me – 10 Silent Westerns – 3 Monthly Masterpieces – The Asphalt Jungle February 24 Les Miserables (2012) – Filmed with some style, it is almost enough to counteract the annoying way…
Read MoreIsley Reviews the 2012 Oscar nominees (plus best movies of 2012 list!)
Here we are on year four of me actually watching all the shitty best picture nominations so you don’t have to. And you know what? They are actually getting better, there was only really one movie that made me dry heave this year, and that was for mostly ideological reasons, so I’m going to go…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 38 – The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, 1950)
Man do I love heist movies. I’m not talking about wacky romps like the Ocean’s 11 movies (though they are fine for what they are), I’m talking about the old school heist movies where EVERYBODY fucking dies. I’ve discussed some of my favorite heist film elements before (while distinguishing them from the not at all the same “crime…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – January, 2013
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in December. Stats Movies watched – 21 Movies that were new to me – 14 1990’s films rewatched for the first time since I saw them in theaters – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – Street of Crocodiles, Amour January 31 Kids (1995) – Really impressive naturalistic performances do a lot…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 37 – The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979)
The Warriors is one of the manliest movies ever made. A gang of sweat-soaked, half-naked men run across three burroughs of New York City, periodically stopping to roll around on the ground with men from other gangs while attempting to avoid the deadly, siren-like snares that every woman who gets in their way represents. Actually, The Warriors…
Read More2012 – Year in Reviews
Every time the end of the year comes around I always get the same questions. How many movies did you watch last year? What were the best ones? How many did you watch by decade? Well fear not, because I’m here to answer all such questions today! How many movies did I watch in the…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – December, 2012
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in December. Stats Movies watched – 22 Movies that were new to me – 12 Middling Bond Movies – 4 Monthly Masterpieces – It’s a Wonderful Life, Destry Rides Again, Full Moon in Paris December 31 Premium Rush (2012) – Gordon-Levitt’s character is kind of a douche who…
Read MoreIO5M 10: The Top Five Most Annoying Changes from the Book in the New Hobbit Movie
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. This time, I go all nerd RAEG on some of the most glaring “historical” inaccuracies in the new Hobbit movie. 5.…
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