Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls put your hands together for… Oscar Season! Oh yeah, it’s good stuff. Rooster Illusion is reviewing Lincoln and Argo; Tuesday Zone’s got its eye on Silver Linings Playbook and Amour; Zero Dark Thirty, The Hobbit, Django Unchained and Les Mis have not yet come out. Well, I’ll be damned…
I went into this movie really wanting to like it, and hoping that it lived up to the praise that my old Canadian Studies professors had heaped onto it when I was in college. Citizen Gangster ended up being just about the best you could hope for out of a relatively low budget independent film;…
Baddie – Oregon Trail flashbacks. Lesson – Cowboys make almost everything cool. HEY! Guess what? It’s WESTERN WEEK. Okay, not really. I just wanted to watch a Western. And also, I wanted to delve a little deeper into this ‘underground monster’ thing I touched on last week. So this week, I watched “The Burrowers”. Here’s…
There are a variety of reasons I chose to review Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). First of all, this is the sixth Star Trek film (6 just happens to be my favorite number), which premiered on Dec 6th, 1991. Dec 6th also happens to be my birthday (I’m 22 today!). Even more fitting, Star Trek…
Since I didn’t make it to the movies this week, I thought I’d fall back on the time-honored tradition of finding the good stuff on Netflix. Melancholia got a fair amount of critical acclaim when it came out, and then praise from people in my Film Theory class. Since most of what I’d heard made…
Well, it’s December, a.k.a. Christmas month. Are we doing an Octoberween kind of deal for December? Christembermas? I dunno, nobody tells me nothin’. I was totally going to get seasonal, too, but maybe I’ll put that off a while and just review a mediocre movie that came out eleven years ago. Gosford Park (2001) The…
Some lessons don’t need to be learned, they are just already known. Canvas, a bad idea sprinkled with a little Gary Busey charm and some classic early-90’s movie music (long guitar chords with loud drum thumps) is a lesson that isn’t worth learning, unless you happen to be a martyr. That lesson is that art…
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