Posted in Drama, Reader's Choice, Review, tagged Jane Wyatt, Lost Horizon, Ronald Colman on August 19, 2008 | No Comments »
What a shame.
The sad thing about Lost Horizon is that ten or so minutes of the film are missing. The score is intact, but through years of struggling to piece together surviving film, only ten minutes could not be recovered. The result is a little jarring, but you have to respect the film preservationists who [...]
Posted in Drama, Horror, Netflix, Reader's Choice, Review, tagged Lillian Gish, Night of the Hunter, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters on August 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil?”
In Depression-times, a man robs a bank out of desperation to provide for his family in the long-term. Having killed two men doing so, he is immediately hunted down by the police, but not before he hides the [...]
Posted in Drama, Netflix, Reader's Choice, Review, tagged Michael Winterbottom, The Claim, Milla Jovovich, Sarah Polley on August 4, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Color me astounded.
Winterbottom takes the same approach to The Claim that he did Wonderland; he takes a step back from the material and never subtly infuses his own message into the work; he lets the characters shine, good and bad, and he’s extremely sound as far as moving the camera goes. I’ve never been to [...]
Posted in Drama, Netflix, Reader's Choice, tagged Michael Winterbottom, Wonderland on August 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Wonderland is heavy.
Wonderland is the story of a London family who are all exceptionally lonely. Their lives are drab, boring and when they’re not boring, they’re often times depressing and sad. Over one weekend, the family and others around them struggle with various issues in their lives - being single, becoming [...]
Posted in Drama, Netflix, Reader's Choice, Review, Romance, tagged Princess Raccoon, Zhang Ziyi on July 29, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Somewhere, J.D.’s laughing at me, I feel fairly sure.
Okay, I get the premise of this film. Princess Raccoon is actually a raccoon spirit trapped in a human body who falls in love with a human prince with typically dramatic results. It’s a fairy tale!
It’s got singing and dancing and huge musical numbers. It feels a [...]
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 Drama, Netflix, Review, tagged Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon on July 22, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Al Pacino kills it in this movie.
Al Pacino plays Sonny, a down on his luck kind of guy who feels pulled in eighty different directions and who decides his best course of action is to rob a bank. Of course, his plans go awry and his “perfect” robbery quickly turns into a siege, where Sonny [...]
Posted in Action, Drama, Review, tagged Aaron Eckhart, Batman, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Dark Knight on July 21, 2008 | 17 Comments »
As we walked out of the theater, my friend turned to me and said, “Holy hell, that was a lot of movie.”
The Dark Knight is an awful lot of movie - at two hours and thirty minutes, it’s a lot to shove in your brain.
We pick up primarily where Batman Begins left off. In one [...]
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, Drama, Movies In General, tagged Australia, Eagle Eye, Quantum of Solace, Rock'n'Rolla, Taken, upcoming movies on June 26, 2008 | 9 Comments »
TAKEN (September 19th)
What’s odd is that for a movie hitting in September, I had a difficult time finding a poster (quoi?! I know, right) but I did find this trailer, which makes me much happier, actually. Liam Neeson is a dad that sends his 17 year old daughter off to Paris for [...]
