Film
Monthly Movie Reviews – August, 2012
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in August. Stats Movies watched – 12 Movies that were new to me – 7 Seasons of Trailer Park Boys watched/rewatched – 9.5 Monthly Masterpieces – Happy Together August 26 The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) – Really not fair to call this biblical epic bloated and…
Read MoreCinema Scripture School 2: The Bible – In the Beginning (John Huston, 1966)
Because the Sunday mornings of my childhood usually involved me sleeping in and then eating blueberry pancakes while watching Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies with my family, I have quite a few holes in my biblical knowledge. Luckily, due to an early exposure to The Ten Commandments (how awesome was Ramses? How hot were those…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 32 – Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai, 1997)
I don’t tend to like directors with flashy visuals. I’m a Hawks and Rohmer man after all, for me, restrained stylistics are a sign of a master craftsman with nothing to prove. At least that’s what I think until a director like Wong Kar-wai comes along and I realize I have to rethink my position.…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – July, 2012
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in July. Stats Movies watched – 27 Movies that were new to me – 19 Middling Hollywood blockbusters rewatched – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – Halloween, Love Me Tonight, To Have and Have Not July 31 The Decoy Bride (2011) – Tennant’s character isn’t really all that likable, but his…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 31 – Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932)
If Hollywood films are all merely bits of magical mythmaking, then the musicals of the 1930s are their apotheosis. In a world of romantic comedies and westerns, it is not to much of a reach to add “breaking into song and dance” to what one is willing to accept in the name of suspension of…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – June, 2012
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in June. Stats Movies watched – 18 Movies that were new to me – 10 Days since last Dazed and Confused viewing – 32 Monthly Masterpieces – Dazed and Confused June 30 The Room (2003) – Possible contender for the “worst movie ever made” title, a feat…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 30 – Hackers (Iain Softley, 1995)
The A.V. Club, as part of its “New Cult Canon” series, recently published a piece on Hackers. While it correctly pointed to the impossible allure of a young Angelina Jolie’s face, I felt that it largely failed to adequately describe just what makes Hackers so brilliant. I’m sure part of the problem is that any attempt to canonize…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – May, 2012
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in May. Stats Movies watched – 12 Movies that were new to me – 3 Days since last Dazed and Confused viewing – 184 Monthly Masterpieces – Dazed and Confused, His Girl Friday, Pandora’s Box May 28 The Dictator (2012) – For as funny a guy as Sacha Baron Cohen…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 29 – Pandora’s Box (G. W. Pabst, 1929)
Occasionally an actor will turn in a performance so powerful, that it completely permeates every square inch of the film it is a part of. Usually, as is the case with a film like Last Tango in Paris, the rest of the performances (and the film as a whole) tend to to suffer in comparison.…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – April, 2012
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in April. Stats Movies watched – 15 Movies that were new to me – 13 Channing Tatum movies – 6 Monthly Masterpieces – Ordet April 24 The Raid: Redemption (2011) – There is some good visceral action to be found here, though a plot to back it…
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