Film
Monthly Movie Reviews – June, 2015
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in June. Stats Movies watched – 7 Movies that were new to me – 6 Percent 2010s movies watched – 86% Monthly Masterpieces – Die Hard June 29 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) – Seems like there are maybe slightly fewer “here’s a joke for the…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 66: Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988)
Last month I talked about one of the first two movies I owned on VHS as a child. I figured it was only fitting to talk about the other movie today, the action movie to end all action movies, DIE HARD. Many consider action movies merely a guilty pleasure, a cinematic genre that must be…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – May, 2015
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in May. Stats Movies watched – 9 Movies that were new to me – 7 Tinkerbell movies watched – 5 Monthly Masterpieces – This is Spinal Tap, Mad Max: Fury Road May 30 Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings (2012) – The central premise of fairy twins…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 65: Star Trek IV – The Voyage Home
It can be tricky to figure out exactly what criteria to use when trying to pin down one’s “favorite movie of all time ever!” Is it the film that you find the most intellectually and artistically stimulating? If so, my favorite movie is The Mirror. Is it the film that you find the funniest? If…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – April, 2015
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in April. Stats Movies watched – 14 Movies that were new to me – 7 All time favorite movies watched within a day of each other – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – Ten, This is Spinal Tap, Dazed and Confused April 30 Grandma’s Boy (2006) – As is…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 64 – Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)
Some movies, when viewed at an impressionable age, can live on in our memories as possessing qualities far beyond their actual worth. Ball of Fire, I’m happy to report, is not one of those movies. It basically operates under the same premise as The Big Bang Theory (hot chick moves in with a bunch of nerds–hilarity…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – March, 2015
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in March. Stats Movies watched – 10 Movies that were new to me – 6 Monster High movies – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – Mr. Hulot’s Holiday March 31 Dawn of the Dead (1978) – Some of the anti-consumerism stuff gets laid on pretty thick, but there’s no denying…
Read MoreIO5M 19: The Top Five Julia Stiles Movies and TV Shows
It’s no secret that I’ve got a bit of a thing for Julia Stiles. Maybe I’m just being a contrarian because of all those people who call her “fish-faced box office poison,” but dammit, she is ALWAYS a delight, even in bottom of the barrel shit-shows like Carolina and Wicked. So, today, on this most…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 63: Street of Crocodiles (The Brother’s Quay, 1986)
I’ve always been a little on the fence about experimental film. I mean, I get it, or at least I think I do, but, at the end of the day, I really just kind of want to watch a STORY. I’m not saying narrative filmmaking is a more valid means of cinematic expression, I’m just…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – February, 2015
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in February. Stats Movies watched – 16 Movies that were new to me – 8 Kid’s movies – 3 Monthly Masterpieces – Punch Drunk Love, A Matter of Life and Death February 28 Finding Nemo (2003) – It’s the usual kid’s movie stuff that somehow…
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