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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Last night I took the opportunity to watch a movie I’d heard about over the years. Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) is the story of the relationship between Ruth Anne ‘Bone’ Boatwright (Jena Malone - The United States of Leland 2003), her mother Anney Boatwright (Jennifer Jason Leigh - Georgia 1995) and her stepfather Glen [...]
Review: Motel Hell (1980)
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008If you love cheese-ball horror you just might like Motel Hell (1980). Starring Rory Calhoun (“The Texan” 15 episodes, 1958-1960) and Nancy Parsons (Steel Magnolias 1989), it’s about siblings who manage to combine their two family businesses. A motel and a smoked meat factory. It’s a fun watch at 2 in the morning, but the [...]
Review: Blind Horizon (2003)
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Shot and left for dead how does a man stop a presidential assignation when he can’t even remember his own name? That’s the journey we take with Val Kilmer (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005) in Blind Horizon (2003). A psychological thriller that had me asking “what the fuck?” the first time I saw it five [...]
Review: Blonde (2001)
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Poppy Montgomery (“Without a Trace” 137 episodes, 2002-2008) is quite convincing as Marilyn Monroe in the made for TV miniseries Blonde (2001). Directed by Joyce Chopra (Murder in a Small Town 1999), scripted by Joyce Eliason (Elvis and Me 1988) and based on the book by Joyce Carol Oates (Frequent contributor to “Playboy” magazine) this [...]
Review: The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
Friday, July 25th, 2008Believe it or not, but even with an irrational fear of aliens, I’m still a big x-files fan. So there was no way I was missing the midnight premiere of The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) tonight. It’s been five years sense we said goodbye to them on the small screen. Now Fox Mulder [...]
Review: the dark knight (2008)
Friday, July 18th, 2008I braved the mad crowds at midnight under a full moon to be one of the first to see The Dark Knight (2008) in action. And I wasn’t disappointed. With a 152 minute run time you’d think it’d seem long; and though I saw a dozen fine spots for it to end, I was thrilled [...]
movies + personal shit
Saturday, July 12th, 2008I have to admit that this week depression has been kicking my butt. My sleeping schedule has been all shot to hell, and I’m not looking forward to my measly four hour shift at work tomorrow later today; it’s just not fun anymore. I keep blaming my new pills and pms, hoping that this mood [...]
today’s movies
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008i’ve been terrible about writing movie reviews for the last few months, and i can’t seem to make myself do anything about it. so i’ve decided to at least post the movies i’ve watched. maybe this will get me going again? today’s movies so far…
something new (2006) - i was pleasantly [...]
review: rendition (2007)
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Peace, at what cost? Is a decent part of the question asked in the new movie Rendition (2007). The term itself originally described a ‘handing over’ of a person from one jurisdiction to another; also known as extradition. But the CIA was granted permission to use rendition in a presidential directive that [...]
review: 30 days of night (2007)
Saturday, October 27th, 2007First I insist you click here to read the preview I wrote for this movie and see the trailer posted there.
My peaceful fantasies about someday moving to Alaska have been severely crippled with the screening of 30 Days of Night (2007). But that doesn’t stop me from loving this totally kick ass movie by [...]
review: elizabeth, the golden age (2007)
Saturday, October 27th, 2007I think Cate Blanchett (Oscar winner for The Aviator 2004) could sit back and just make a career out of playing queen Elizabeth I. She pulled it off seamlessly for a second time in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). A performance good enough that it should secure her at least another nomination, if [...]
review: across the universe (2007)
Saturday, October 27th, 2007First let me direct you to my preview write-up of this film that you can find here. That’s where you can also see a trailer for the movie.
One of the best movies to be released in years is Across the Universe (2007). In the style of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), Tommy (1975) [...]
review: torn curtain (1966)
Sunday, October 21st, 2007I wonder how many times it actually happened in real life, but Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain (1966) tells the story of an American who defects to communist East Germany. Ok, the story is a bit more complicated than that; the more interesting part being how he gets back out. Hitchcock’s 50th film stars [...]
review: the trouble with harry (1955)
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Alfred Hitchcock’s most optimistic movie, The Trouble with Harry (1955), is “a comedy about a corpse.” Seems harry has died and no one knows who did it, how it was done, or what to do with the body. This screenplay by John Michael Hayes (Oscar nominee for Rear Window 1954) reads easily as [...]
review: the man who knew too much (1956)
Sunday, October 21st, 2007In my last review I stated that Frenzy (1972) was Alfred Hitchcock’s first filming in Britain in almost twenty years, the previous movie being The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). This movie also took its stars James Stewart (Oscar winner for The Philadelphia Story 1940) and Doris Day (Oscar nominee for Pillow Talk [...]
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