Film
My Favorite Movies 24 – The Pawn Shop (Charlie Chaplin, 1916)
Among the inner circles of my film graduate school, I am known for a few things: A almost fanatical devotion to Howard Hawks. An incomprehensible love of romantic comedies. The assertion that Chaplin’s much vaunted pathos is the worst part of his films. Thus, in the spirit of #3, I’d like to take a moment today to…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – November, 2011
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in November. Stats Movies watched – 17 Movies that were new to me – 8 Percent rom coms. – almost 25% Monthly Masterpieces – Nosferatu, Kiss Me Deadly, The Long Goodbye, Dazed and Confused November 28 Blade Runner (1982) – Some like to claim that this film is merely…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 23 – Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955)
Far be it from me, a guy who has an unnatural love of romantic comedies, to try to tell you what MEN like in their movies, but that’s just what I’m going to do today. After all, I don’t just go from six to midnight for films involving last minute races to the airport to…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – October, 2011
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in October. Stats Movies watched – 27 Movies that were new to me – 20 Horror films. – 8 counting Detour Monthly Masterpieces – The Old Dark House, The 39 Steps October 31 Gaslight (1944) – Great psychological drama where the villainous Boyer attempts to drive his wife…
Read MoreIo5M 6: The Top Five Movie Villains of all Time.
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. Today, in honor of this year’s Halloween costume, I thought I’d take a look at some of my all time favorite movie…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 22 – The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)
Nobody loves Hitchcock as much as pretentious film snobs. I’m a year and a half into graduate school in film and media studies, and you would not believe the amount of Hitchcock bullshit that gets blown up my ass in about 90% of my readings. Not that I’m knocking the guy of course, Hitch deserves…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – September, 2011
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in September. Stats Movies watched – 22 Movies that were new to me – 14 Percent of The Big Sleep understood after 15th time watching it. – 83% Monthly Masterpieces – M, The Big Sleep, Beware of a Holy Whore September 30 Contagion (2011) –…
Read MoreHoward Hawks’ The Big Sleep explained via graph!
Not only is Howard Hawks one of my all time favorite directors, but I also love private eye films like Marie Antoinette loved cake. Thus it is not easily that I will admit that 1946’s The Big Sleep is just a wee bit confusing. Honestly, it’s more than just a little bit confusing; I’ve seen…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 21 – Send Me No Flowers (Norman Jewison, 1964)
It’s no secret to anyone who has perused my Daily Movie Reviews section that I am rather fond of romantic comedies. And I should make it clear that I don’t just like the old classics; everyone likes It Happened One Night, real rom com fans understand the delights of new films like 27 Dresses. Basically,…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – August, 2011
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in August. Stats Movies watched – 30 Movies that were new to me – 22 Rom com tally – 12ish Monthly Masterpieces – Double Indemnity, A Day in the Country August 31 Just Like Heaven (2005) – Ruffalo and Witherspoon are great as always, and…
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