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Internet Meme Monday 5 – The Reaction Guys React to Movies
Welcome back to Internet Meme Monday! What is a meme you say? Well, as I understand it, a meme is similar to a gene, except instead of passing on genetic information it passes on cultural ideas. A meme can take many forms, from a catch phrase to a hand gesture, but the type of memes…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – April, 2010
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in April. Stats Movies watched – 43 Movies that were new to me – 35 Remakes reviewed/Franchises Finished – 5/7 Monthly Masterpieces – The White Ribbon, Red River, The Old Dark House April 30 The Godfather Part III (1990) – A fine film, though everything except…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – March, 2010
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in March. Stats Movies watched – 28 Movies that were new to me – 20 National Treasure movies watched and mostly enjoyed – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – Our Hospitality, Le Samourai, The Tarnished Angels, My Darling Clementine, Out of the Past March 30…
Read MoreIsley reviews the 2009 Oscar nominees!
I thought I learned my lesson last year after enduring The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but I guess not, because even though they doubled the number of nominees this year, I still decided to watch all the 2009 Oscar nominations. I mean, everyone knows that an actual academy award win doesn’t mean shit, but it doesn’t…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – February, 2010
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in January. Stats Movies watched – 30 Movies that were new to me – 23 Movies from my guilty pleasure bucket list watched and enjoyed – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – Wages of Fear, Blade Runner February 27 Thundering Fleas (1926) – Very good Little…
Read MoreCinema Scripture School 1: King of Kings (Nicholas Ray, 1961)
Every now and then I’m reminded that I really don’t know as much about the bible as I thought I did. Well, tonight was one of those times: I just finished Nicholas Ray’s 1961 biblical epic King of Kings and boy did I learn a lot! I mean, I already knew some things, like Pontius…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – January, 2010
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in January. Stats Movies watched – 33 Movies that were new to me – 27 Remakes and Sequels watched – 5 (counting Avatar) Monthly Masterpieces – Chloe in the Afternoon, La Collectionneuse, Pauline at the Beach, Viridiana January 29 Viridiana (1961)– Very deserving of its…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 12 – Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer, 1972)
There are many directors I admire greatly, but none as much as Eric Rohmer. With his death yesterday morning, cinema lost a true master whose unique voice has never been (and most likely will never be) matched. It’s easy to think of Rohmer’s films as “all being the same”. After all, “young attractive french couples (often on…
Read MoreThe Top Ten Best Films of the 2000s
Top ten lists might be completely subjective affairs that are meaningless to anyone other than their creator, but they also happen to be a hell of a lot of fun to make. Obviously nobody can really say any one movie is exactly the 7th best movie of the year, the decade, or all time, but…
Read More2009 – Year in Reviews
Because today marks the one year anniversary of my Monthly Movie Review segment, I thought I’d spend a bit of time looking back over my year in movies. And when I say in movies, I mean a lot of movies…like an embarrassing amount. It’s almost as if I have a bit of free time on…
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