The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) – So I have never actually seen a Nicholas Roeg film, except for The Witches and I last saw that over 15 years ago. He’s a director held in a fairly high regard; he has several films in the Criterion Collection (this one included). Now in the six … Continue reading
Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life (2011)
Into the Abyss (2011) – Well, now seems as good a time as any to get into my feelings on the death penalty. Not that I think movies reviews are necessarily the place for such things (though that hasn’t stopped me before) but I think whenever there’s a particularly divisive issue it helps to know … Continue reading
Primer (2004)
Primer (2004) – So after Timecrimes, I decided to watch this film: one of the hands-down best time travel movies ever made. It may lack the wacky sense of adventure of the Back to the Future but it has a lot of other stuff going for it. Also, it was made for just $7000, and … Continue reading
Timecrimes (2007)
Timecrimes (2007) – There are a couple different theories of time travel, at least as it applies to works of fiction. There’s the whole tangent universe theory as explained by Doc Brown in Back to the Future: when you change something it creates a new timeline. The more plausible, and often more interesting one is … Continue reading
X-Men (2000)
X-Men (2000) – I have been a huge X-Men fan since the early 90s. Hell, I even liked that one-off cartoon from the 80s where Wolverine has an Australian accent for God only knows what reason (everyone knows Wolverine is Canadian!), possibly foreshadowing some of the casting of this movie… Anyway, the reason you didn’t … Continue reading
OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)
OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009) – After The Artist, I was looking forward to seeing what else the Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanvicius and Oscar-winning star Jean Dujardin had collaborated on. I discovered a delightful spy spoof from a few years back called OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies. Using a previously existed French spy … Continue reading
The Simpsons – “A Streecar Named Marge”
The Simpsons – “A Streetcar Named Marge” All right, confession time: my very first exposure to Tennesse Williams’s classic play A Streetcar Named Desire came from this episode of The Simpsons. I am a 90s kid, no apologies. So after finally getting around to watching the great Elia Kazan film adaptation, I had to revisit … Continue reading
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) – Stage to screen adaptations can be tricky. Enough of them are great that there’s no cause to automatically be skeptical going into one, but there are also more than a few that hit the mark. When you factor in the fact that Tennessee Williams often wrote about homosexuality and … Continue reading
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Men in Black 3 (2012) – Sequels are not necessarily a case of diminishing returns. While there is definitely plenty of hollow retreads like The Hangover Part II, there also flicks like The Godfather Part II, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and [technically] The Silence of the Lambs. Loosely based on a comic by Lowell … Continue reading
Velvet Goldmine (1998)
Velvet Goldmine (1998) – There’s been a number of odd scenes that have sprung up around musical styles. Punk is my favorite, but the 70s also saw the rise of glam rock. Now I never could get into the whole elaborate makeup, expertly coiffed hairstyles, and outlandish outfits (hell, I can barely be bothered to … Continue reading
Persistence of Vision 