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- Two Days, One Night – it’s (almost) exactly what you expect it to be
- Whiplash – a disgusting, stupidly manipulative piece of absurdity.
- Still Alice – big stars, big production, but still just a Hallmark movie of the week
- Wild – it’s surprisingly well-made and fun to watch
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- Mr. Turner – Planet of the Ape
- The Imitation Game – It’s an abomination
- A Brief Word on the 2014 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts
- Kill The Messenger – The important and tragic story of Gary Webb, the mainstream media, and the CIA
- This is Where I Leave You – the latest in a long line of “family reunion” movies
- A review of summer cinema – it was pretty grim!
- The Trip to Italy – It never should have been made
- A Most Wanted Man – Superficially entertaining, but poorly-made and overrated
- Magic in the Moonlight – It’s pissing me off!
- The Purge: Anarchy – Surprisingly, it’s rather good
- I Origins – ambitious and entertaining
- Boyhood – a bit one dimensional, but its one dimension is lovely, impressive and fun to experience
- Obvious Child – cute, dignified and gutsy
- Snowpiercer – a fantastic, riveting science fiction action allegory
- Edge of Tomorrow – it’s fairly entertaining
- Begin Again – confronting the future of pop music head-on
- The Fault in Our Stars – not super-moving, but definitely enjoyable
- Hellion – a gritty tale of fucked up parents and children
- Night Moves – a cool, subtle portrayal of hippy-liberal activism turned violent
- Cold In July – an outstandingly fun and unusual film, and a paean for the 1980s
- Austenland – so horrible, I’m speechless
- Elena – 80 minutes of torture
- Lucky Them – Toni Collette takes center stage and lights up the screen!
- Belle – it means well, but God is it slow (and dull)
- Finding Vivian Maier – an okay documentary on a fascinating artist
- The German Doctor (Wakolda) – Diverting, but feels more than a little contrived
- Chef – it’s heart is in the right place
- Jodorowsky’s Dune – a bizarre and amazing documentary
- Hateship, Loveship – it goes down well
- Divergent – entertaining, but there’s a lot wrong with it
Category Archives: Films of the 1990s
Eric Rohmer’s Autumn Tale (1998) – a meditation on entering the autumn of our lives
Autumn Tale is, in my opinion, Rohmer’s most commercial and accessible film. It’s strange therefore that it is one of the only films of his that never made it to Region 1 DVD, which means that my readers in the United … Continue reading
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Light Sleeper – a good little sleeper from the 90’s
Light Sleeper is a kind of hybrid of several decades of film stylism. It has something of that 1970’s, Sidney Lumet grittiness about it – indeed, I thought it captured early 90’s New York City in a very vivid and … Continue reading
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The Last Days of Disco – 13 years later, it still stinks
With the impending release of Damsels in Distress, the first Whit Stillman movie in 13 years, my wife and I decided to go back and revisit his last film, The Last Days of Disco, which we did not like when … Continue reading
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Ringu (1998) – A farily high quality B-thriller
I’m not really an aficionado of horror films, but I do appreciate really good ones, so naturally I have always been interested in Ringu, the famous Japanese horror film from quite a few years back. Well, I finally caught up … Continue reading
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Next Stop, Wonderland (1996): An Appreciation
There was really something special about what I call the “indie renaissance,” which began in the early 1990s and was all but over by 2000. During this period, a unique style of film making started to get traction, a style … Continue reading
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JFK (1991) / Executive Action (1973) – Mixed attempts at the ultimate political thriller
As someone fascinated by the Kennedy assassination, it is a must that I review the two feature films that have attempted to deal with the intricate and fascinating details of this subject: The Oliver Stone spectacular JFK, and the little … Continue reading
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