Posted in Comedy, Netflix, Reader's Choice, Review, tagged Carol Burnett, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Michael Caine, Noises Off! on July 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I realize that Kevin is currently on vacation, but hey, let’s do this anyways.
Noises Off! is a movie within a play. We start off with the cast and director preparing for the very first show of a comedic play that will be touring, a play that starts out well but rapidly becomes tiresome due to [...]
Posted in Comedy, Netflix, Review, tagged Ben Stiller, Geoffrey Rush, Greg Kinnear, Janeane Garofalo, Mystery Men on July 24, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Soooooo, Piper over at Lazy Eye Theatre had this fantabulous post about how some movies? Best left to the vague recesses of your memory, where you treasure them fondly and gloss over the crap parts.
For me, Mystery Men is one of those movies.
I remember seeing Mystery Men when it first hit DVD and really enjoying [...]
Posted in Comedy, Drama, Netflix, Review, tagged Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamyn, Shea Whigham, Wristcutters: A Love Story on July 23, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Okay, you need to see this movie, if you haven’t already.
Wristcutters: A Love Story is really the story of Zia (Patrick Fugit) and his quest to find his girlfriend in the afterlife. All suicide victims go to a special afterlife, a purgatory of sorts, where no one smiles, everything is old and run down and [...]
Posted in Comedy, Drama, Flashback, Netflix, Review, tagged Deborah Kerr, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, Robert Mitchum on July 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Robert Mitchum is seriously one of my favorite actors of all time. I don’t know why Mitchum doesn’t get the acclaim he so rightly deserves. I often feel like Mitchum gets relegated to the second string behind guys like Jimmy Stewart and others of his generation and it’s always puzzled me. [...]
Posted in Action, Comedy, Mockery, Netflix, Review, tagged Jean Claude Van Damme, Street Fighter, Raul Julia on July 10, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Posted in Action, Comedy, Movies In General, Sci-Fi, tagged Wanted, Tropic Thunder, Igor, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Dark Knight, upcoming movies on June 25, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Here on 1,416 and Counting I normally do old movies. They usually haven’t been in a theater in years. However, this doesn’t mean I don’t keep up on new movies; it’s just that some of them (like Beverly Hills Chihuahua) strike me as not worth my time, suicide-inducing or a movie you [...]
Posted in Comedy, Movie Crack, Netflix, Review, tagged Empire Records, Liv Tyler, Anthony LaPaglia, Renee Zellweger, Maxwell Caulfield on June 20, 2008 | 18 Comments »
I was talking to a good friend of mine (and sometimes 1,416 and Counting commenter) about her thoughts on Empire Records. Her answer?
“Where do thoughts come from? They just appear!”
What makes Empire Records so infinitely watchable is the sheer fact that not only is it light-hearted fun, but it’s quotable like very few other movies.
Empire [...]
Posted in Comedy, Drama, Foreign, Netflix, Review, tagged Comedy, Drama, German film, Good Bye Lenin! on June 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What do you do when you live in East Germany right as the Berlin Wall is going to fall and your devoted Socialist mother drops into a coma, only to awake after the fall of the Wall?
Why, you lie to her and make everything like it was before.
Alex is devoted to his mother, Christiane, who [...]
Posted in Comedy, Netflix, Reader's Choice, Review, tagged Trading Places, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Landis on May 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ah, the days before Eddie Murphy was a total primadonna.
With Eddie Murphy’s career in a constant state of decline the past ten years or so, it’s hard for me to remember a time when moviegoers actually liked him. It’s hard to remember the Trading Places/Coming to America era when you’re deluged with The [...]
