Film
Why Biopics Blow
Since 2009 I have watched every single best picture nominated movie before each year’s Oscars ceremony. At first it was kind of a “why not, I can endure 10 shitty movies in order to get enough ammo to write a snarky blog post about how much they all sucked.”. Then, for some reason, I decided…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 62: Bladerunner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
I talk about cyberpunk a lot on this blog. It is, in fact, one of my favorite things–a thing about which I have thoughts. Next to the perpetually cloudy winter of Middle-earth, the perpetually orange-tinted pseudo smog-twilight of your typical cyberpunk dystopia is one of my favorite settings. And no work of art, neither Neuromancer…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – January, 2015
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in December. Stats Movies watched – 9 Movies that were new to me – 4 Masterpieces that didn’t make the list of Monthly Masterpieces – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – From Russia With Love January 27 Getting Straight (1970) – This movie accomplishes the rare feat…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 61: Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)
All the classic Westerns strike a different chord with me. My Darling Clementine is pure poetry, Stagecoach is like witnessing the birth of something new into the world, Rio Bravo is like a laid back summer memory, and Red River like the pure distilled essence of storytelling, the kind of film they would make outside the walls of…
Read More2014 – Year in Reviews
Every time the end of the year comes around I always get the same questions. How many movies did you watch last year? What were the best ones? How many did you watch by decade? Well fear not, because I’m here to answer all such questions today! How many movies did I watch in the…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – December, 2014
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in December. Stats Movies watched – 8 Movies that were new to me – 4 Movies about “youths” – 4 Monthly Masterpieces – Dazed and Confused, December 25 Dazed and Confused (1993) – I had a bit too much to drink when I rewatched this one for the umpteenth…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 60: Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Chechik, 1989)
Quotable movies can be pretty tough to objectively review. One one hand, a quotable script is doing something 99% of movies don’t do, namely: “sticking in your mind for more than an hour after you leave the theater.” On the other hand, who can say what makes a film’s various lines of dialog worm their…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – November, 2014
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in November. Stats Movies watched – 9 Movies that were new to me – 3 Favorites rewatched – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – Red River November 30 Red River (1948) – I finally watched the rare “theatrical” version of this movie (perhaps the greatest of all westerns) and didn’t find…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 59: Born Yesterday (George Cukor, 1950)
George Cukor was always known as a “woman’s” director. I was never quite sure whether he was called that just because he directed The Women, because he chose screenplays that attempted to address issues of gender in a more forward thinking manner than his contemporaries, or because his homosexuality was all but out of the…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – October, 2014
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in October. Stats Movies watched – 7 Movies that were new to me – 2 Number of years since I last saw Beetlejuice – 26 Monthly Masterpieces – Rosemary’s Baby, Playtime, Citizen Kane October 29 Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Wonderful slow burn horror film that nails the paranoia and subtle dread of…
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