May 14
Let’s get this out of the way right now: I loved this movie when it was first released. It’s one of my favorite graphic novel/comic stories, and I’d been heavily anticipating it since the first trailer was put out with The Dark Knight. I saw 3 times in the theatre, and for an almost 3 …
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May 07
Pop culture is a funny thing. It invades almost every moment of our lives, to the point that now we compare our real lives to the fictional ones we’ve read/seen/heard. How many times a day do you quote The Simpsons, use a song lyric as a way to get across an idea, say something like …
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Apr 30
An exercise in stillness, but within the genre of the superhero action film, M. Night Shymalan’s 2000 film Unbreakable is a strange amalgam of his own stylistic quirks with the demands of the chosen genre. Made right before Shymalan descended into his own massive ego black hole, it shows a director confident in his abilities, …
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Apr 16
All the pretty lights and amazing music in the world won’t be able to overcome a lackluster plot and awful dialogue. Tron: Legacy is the poster child for this. With wonderful production design, very well-done 3D, a built-in audience nostalgic for the original, and a fantastic score by Daft Punk, the sequel to 1982′s Tron …
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Mar 26
I love Edgar Wright. I love Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim comic series. So it’s fairly obvious that I would be very much in the bag for an adaptation of said series by aforementioned British director. I eagerly followed all casting and production news for it, devoured all the trailers and music videos, put the …
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Mar 19
The look and feel of a film is vastly important. Different directors and cinematographers can look at the same scene as written and create completely different tableaus, with different narrative choices and focuses. Sam Mendes’ film from 2002, Road To Perdition, with cinematography done by the Academy Award winning Conrad Hall, is one such film …
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Mar 12
John Wayne versus Victor McLaglen in a fist fight which ranges over a good chunk of landscape and has an intermission for a drink built-in. This is The Quiet Man, an American version of an Irish film if ever there was one. Full of drinking and fighting and discussions of Irish marriage customs(?), it’s a …
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Mar 06
Anticipation can be a killer. On one hand, your excitement can be built up so much for something, can be hyped up so high, that there is no way your expectations will be met. And in the same vein, maybe what you were expecting is completely counter to what you get. Your idea of how …
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Feb 12
The beauty of Once is not necessarily in the music. The music is there. It is beautiful. What became The Swell Season perform song after song (sometimes Markéta Irglová and Glen Hansard together, sometimes just Hansard) of heartbreaking and bittersweet sadness and love, but that’s not all the film has in its corner. It also …
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Feb 05
The silence surrounds you, the stillness unnerving. It’s only when music rarely comes in that you notice how often it’s not there. Everything is on edge for the duration, moments of violence punctuating the prolonged quiet, the flow broken by jagged edges of visceral experience. The Coen Brothers’ adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For …
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