Reviews, Top N lists, and other sundry cinematic stuff.
Walken cast as Fox; it almost works but misses. Still beats Mnemonic. SPOILER WARNING: Honestly, New Rose Hotel would have been truly great but only if Abel Ferrara had had the presence of mind to keep it as a 30-45 minute short film. Instead, he tells the story twice: first as a really effective (and […]
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Ninety minutes and no monkey and after that, six shots on repeat.
What to say about Doctorow‘s write-up of This Film Is Not Yet Rated? My inner libertarian is screaming out: “Heck yes! Fuck ’em and their so-called ratings! Vive le Rated X! Vive le NC-17!” And there’s a lot of compelling reasons to rally around those cries if what he’s saying about the film are true. […]
Just don’t. Our new subscription to Blockbuster’s DVD-by-mail-to-compete-with-Netflix plan has us high on the opportunity to cheaply take risks on films we’d otherwise normally stay away from. Anyway, imagine our conflict… With a title like Dopamine, how could we possibly stay away? But with a description like: …In San Francisco during the economic heyday of […]
“Dangerous Liaisons” Sexual trysts of Aristocratic French Beyond my control ***** “E.T.” Brown alien stuck on Earth with stupid white kids. I would phone home, too. ***** “Waterworld” It is like Mad Max But in the ocean’s future. Fucking terrible.
Brokeback Mountain. Very average. Maybe just hyped to the point where it couldn’t possibly deliver? I must say that I walked away pretty numb. Acting performances were in the “good” to “excellent” range and it certainly started well enough. (The first 30-45 minutes are brilliant.) Unfortunately, it can’t keep its own pace and slows down […]
28 Days Later. About as expected zombie-ish flick with a twist. Decent premise and a whole lot of suspense (though a bit over the top at times). Take that animal rights activists. Hidalgo. Better than expected but still glad I didn’t catch it in the theater. Half-blood late-19th century cowboy tears ass across the Arabian […]
Mike over at Modus Ponens already said all there was to say about Munich so I’ll only add this: Mr. Spielberg, Your closing shot. C’mon… Must you?
So I watched 2010 tonight since my local Blockbuster doesn’t seem to have 2001. This is a drag for several reasons. But for several other reasons, I’ll live with it. 2010 is good enough in it’s own right. Potential spoilers below: First and foremost, it stands well enough on its own. You get enough of […]