Tag: movies
July 8, 2018
July 7, 2018
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Review
Northern Soul (Elaine Constantine, 2014)
This was so much fun. Watching the boys get swept up in the passion for sweet soul music got me to reminiscing about my discovery of punk at about the same age.
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July 6, 2018
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Roman J. Israel, Esq. (Dan Gilroy, 2017)
July 4, 2018
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Review
Ocean’s 8 (Gary Ross, 2018)
A fun fluffy summer distraction. You definitely don’t want to think too hard about movies like this.
June 19, 2018
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Review
Annihilation (2018, Alex Garland)
I had to think long and hard about how I felt about the movie adaptation of Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation which I loved. I was a big fan of Alex Garland’s “Ex Machina” too but thought the psychedelic and literary novel was going to be pretty much impossible to film without major reworking.
Visually the movie is absolutely stunning and ultimately I feel that Garland’s decision to drop some of the more out-there stuff in the book (including some major plot elements) was probably wise.
On first viewing (in the theatre) I couldn’t get my head around the lighthouse scene. This felt nothing like the book and looked so oddly out of keeping with the organic mutations earlier on in the film. But on second viewing I’ve decided that everything in the lighthouse is metaphorical because it is beyond our comprehension – much like the acid trip Jupiter and Beyond scene in 2001. With that in mind, I decided the film was great.
May 31, 2018
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Review
It was fun watching Jennifer Lawrence’s slow descent into madness via claustrophobic close-up as mayhem steadily increases all around her. I’m not sure if it’s about loss of control, the sacrificial role of muses, or something entirely different, but I didn’t really care in the end because it felt very fresh.
May 18, 2018
May 5, 2018
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Review
It’s best to think of this as a mid-level Black Mirror episode. Lots of fun stuff if you don’t think about it too hard and some nice graphic design used for the ubiquitous AR everyone in this world has embedded in their noggins.
December 28, 2011
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Movies I Can Watch Over And Over
Lucy and I were watching “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” tonight and we started talking about movies we were happy to watch repeatedly. Here’s a quick list I made.
- (500) Days of Summer
- 24 Hour Party People
- A Simple Plan
- Almost Famous
- American Graffiti
- Anchorman
- Back To The Future
- Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
- Die Hard
- Do The Right Thing
- Elf
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Fight Club
- Goodfellas
- Groundhog’s Day
- High Fidelity
- Monty Python & The Holy Grail
- Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Out of Sight
- Pulp Fiction
- Rushmore
- School of Rock
- Stop Making Sense
- The Big Lebowski
- Wizard of Oz
- Zoolander
What movies do you watch whenever you get a chance? Any idea why some movies bear up to — or improve with — repeated viewings?
