2014-09-14 04:07
The Story: First of all, Merry Christmas. Or, as I like to call it Judaic Film Festivus—the best day of the year for going to movies.Second of all, remember that it is Old… Read More
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2014-01-01 04:00
"Just Because It's Fiction Doesn't Make it a Lie"*or"Cavorting, Twinkling, and Prancing to a Happy Ending Like a Kamikaze"Mary Poppins was a bitch. That's been my joke for a long time… Read More
2013-12-25 03:00
Feeding the BeastorTo Kill a Mocking-jayI mocked The Hunger Games rather mercilessly when it came out (as if it would prevent a single sou from entering its coffers) , because even though it… Read More
2013-12-22 22:31
Another scene from the incomparable Peter O'Toole. This is one of my favorites. Obviously, as it was the first of these I was ever inspired to do. The Story: Someone asked me… Read More
2013-12-20 06:00
Ice-Ice, Babyor(The Cold Never Bothered Me, Anyway...)Disney's latest animated feature—not in the flat 2-D classic animation, but in the 3-D pixilated version ala Tangled—is "ins… Read More
2013-12-19 04:00
Maintaining Good Working HobbitsorA Dense Overlay of SmaugThe second of Peter Jackson's three "Hobbit" films, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is, predictably, more of the same. It'… Read More
2013-12-17 03:46
The Story: "I read the news today, ooooh boy."Peter Seamus O'Toole died Saturday at the age of 81 years of living life to the full and relishing a career as an actor, communicating tha… Read More
2013-12-13 19:00
49th Parallel (aka The Invaders) (Michael Powell, 1941)Interesting propaganda film to promote the war effort by the British government, made by "The Archers" (Emeric Pressburger and Michael… Read More
2013-12-13 07:50
The Talk of the Town (George Stevens, 1942) One could almost look at The Talk of the Town as being a sequel of sorts to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, focusing on the judicial branch, rather… Read More
2013-12-12 05:00
Part 2: The Cosmopolitan YearsIt's always been "The Coen Brothers" as a writing-directing team, although Joel is more often the guy calling the camera shots and both Ethan and he write the s… Read More
2013-12-12 04:00
Part 1: The Prairie YearsIt's always been "The Coen Brothers" as a writing-directing team, although Joel is more often the guy calling the camera shots and both Ethan and he write the screen… Read More
2013-12-10 19:00
The Next Voice You Hear... (William A. Wellman, 1950) Leo, the M-G-M lion doesn't roar in The Next Voice You Hear... probably so as not to offend any Christians with Roman Coliseum asso… Read More
2013-12-09 05:34
The Story: Logos: 1. (often initial capital letter) Philosophy. the rational principle that governs and develops the universe. 2. Theology. the divine word or reason incarnate in Jesus Chris… Read More
2013-12-06 20:00
Making Things RightorAnd Everything Looks Worse in Black and WhiteThere's a story that Peter Bogdanovich got sick of telling during all the press junkets he did for The Last Picture Show abo… Read More
2013-12-02 06:38
The Story: Saul at the crossroads. That's what this scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind is. That would be Saul of Tarses. As in the Bible, as in the Acts of… Read More
2013-11-28 19:00
Upstream (John Ford, 1927) Somewhere in New Zealand, there was a film archive that contained a spate of nitrate films that were not returned to the United States after their initial showings… Read More
2013-11-27 22:00
Amazing...and in No Good Wayor"My Sentimentality Runs the Length of a Coin"I've been avoiding seeing 12 Years a Slave, despite a deep interest in it. It's one of those film … Read More
2013-11-27 00:00
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Luis Buñuel, 1954) This is another of those films that seems to be remade every few years (the attraction of the property being in the public domain… Read More
2013-11-26 00:17
The Story: The opening shot of Barry Lyndon, all thirty-two seconds of it, telegraphs the entire film (nearly three hours of it), based on William Makepeace Thackeray's romp of a novel… Read More
2013-11-22 19:00
There is already a sequel of sorts to the Alfonso Cuarón film Gravity, written and directed by co-scenarist Jonas Cuarón. If you have seen the film, it will make perfect… Read More
2013-11-21 19:00
Hancock (Peter Berg, 2008) The premise (for a super-hero movie) is interesting, the stars are all competent, and in some cases exceptional (Charlize Theron puts in quite a surprising tu… Read More
2013-11-20 21:00
"I Really Don't Understand What All the Fuss is About"or"Is There a Point to All This, Because There Needs to be a Point!"Marvel's Thor was a necessary part of The Avengers puzzle—the… Read More
2013-11-19 19:00
Go West (Buster Keaton, 1925) There have been a couple features with the title, but this is the one written, directed and starring Keaton as a woe-begone dweller of a podunk town who sells e… Read More
2013-11-17 19:00
The Story: It's important to get to a movie early enough--it's not just good manners to the folks who did plan ahead to see the entire show--because sometimes the most important part of the… Read More
2013-11-16 02:00
Couples TherapyorHow to Get a Head in BusinessThe Counselor is not "The Worst Movie Ever Made" (as some would have it) nor should such a withering condemnation (from a critic? *pfft*) warran… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The Story: First of all, Merry Christmas. Or, as I like to call it Judaic Film Festivus—the best day of the year for going to movies.Second of all, remember that it is Old… Read More
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