Film
Monthly Movie Reviews – December, 2009
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in December. Stats Movies watched – 35 Movies that were new to me – 22 Most movies from the last decade watched in a month ever – 25 Monthly Masterpieces – The White Ribbon, It’s a Wonderful Life, In the Mood for Love December…
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Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in November. Stats Movies watched – 27 Movies that were new to me – 23 Movies that featured an abusive relationship as a plot element – 14 Monthly Masterpieces – Killer of Sheep, The Red Shoes, It’s a Gift November 29 The Piano Teacher (2001) –…
Read MoreA (semi) fair and (somewhat) unbiased look at movies with a message.
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not entirely fair in my reviews of movies with a strong message. It doesn’t matter how delicately the filmmaker has incorporated their “message” into their film, as soon as I get a whiff of proselytizing I immediately find my opinion of the film is lowered. It is important to keep…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – October, 2009
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in October. Stats Movies watched – 35 Movies that were new to me – 24 New record for 80s movies watched – 10 Monthly Masterpieces – Black Narcissus, Love Me Tonight, Raging Bull October 31 How to be a Serial Killer (2008) – Played like…
Read MoreThe top 10 best films of the 1980s.
While talking with my dad about “10 best” lists we realized that for film we were having a lot of trouble coming up with an obvious list for the 1980s. Now, every decade is full of great films (and despite having said in the past that I give short shrift to any film made post Star Wars, I was mostly…
Read MorePacifist Westerns – Is violence always the answer?
Westerns, at their hearts, are stories about heroes. The hero defeats the villains and saves the honest townsfolk using, not just his wits, but also his fists and gun. While the town doctor might be a brave, kind, smart man, in the mythical land of the West that is not enough to free him from oppression at…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – September, 2009
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in September. Stats Movies watched – 24 Movies that were new to me – 19 Movies about dudes falling in love with their daughters – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – Invasion of the Body Snatchers, A Touch of Evil, The Aviator’s Wife, Louisiana Story, The Fireman’s Ball, La Roue September 30…
Read MoreQuentin Tarantino, if you don’t have anything to say, don’t take so long to say it.
I’ve had issues with “cute” dialog in movies for a while. I almost turned off Juno after ten minutes and even the dialog from someone like Oscar Wilde can begin to annoy me. So I have some possibly unfair prejudices in this area (Juno-trashing might be acceptable, but I suppose there isn’t anything wrong with enjoying Wilde’s witheringly witty…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – August, 2009
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in August. Stats Movies watched – 41 Movies that were new to me – 33 New record for movies watched in a single day – 7 Monthly Masterpieces – Les Diaboliques, The 39 Steps, Footlight Parade, She Done Him Wrong, The End of St. Petersburg, Love Me Tonight, …
Read MoreTop 10 most upsetting Hobbit movie rumors.
Everyone knows that I was a particularly vehement opponent of the Lord of the Rings movies. My thoughts on adaptations are well publicized and they basically amount to the unyielding law that it is unconscionable to change even one line of the author’s text. And when we are talking about a master on Tolkien’s level, well…
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