Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Sam Cooke, Kurt Cobain, James Dean, River Phoneix – name your favorite artist who passed too soon and play the game. What if? What if Hendrix found another sonic barrier out there, or Joplin wedded her blues with her prodigious talent and a hint of stability in her [...]
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Martin Scorsese wrote a great review of The Searchers last week for The Hollywood Reporter. The Searchers has been more or less officially recognized as a great American classic. But I have to admit that I never really know what that kind of recognition amounts to. The film turns up on many 10-greatest-films-of-all-time lists, [...] Director Christopher Nolan’s challenge in making his third Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises,” was simple enough – how do you top the untoppable? It’s a question that hovers over Rises like a shadow in the twilight. Success breeds its own set of challenges, and the challenge for Nolan, who directed what many consider [...] The Social Network: The plot – a group of drunks and pretentious dweebs in the Ivy League go into business together, then sue each other at the end of the movie. The movie is strangely riveting, given it has so few genuinely likeable characters. It has become a kind of window into the soul. When [...] Putting a finger on what was missing from “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” isn’t too difficult. It’s hard to do justice to a work, whether it a film or book, when that piece of work is missing one of its most important characters. This was the problem with “A Game of Shadows.” Sure [...] The world waited to see how Brad Bird, the accomplished director of animated fare “The Iron Giant,” “The Incredibles,” and “Ratatouille” would work with actual humans. Given his first lead actor in his first live-action adventure was Tom Cruise, we have to wait, since Cruise (who is pushing the half-century mark) has undergone more [...] People often try to find ways to measure the quality and enjoyability of movies. Sometimes these measuring devices consist of stars (usually four or five at most) or even thumbs. Superhero/comic book movies are measured on a different scale. That scale consists of the “it” moment. The “it” moment is something along the lines [...] This year's prom theme is Glock. Surprise is a word with one defined meaning, yet existing in two substantive types. To explain: there are two different types of surprises. There is the surprise of waking up one morning in Vegas, having realized you married Kate Upton. There’s the other kind of surprise, best expressed [...] - Red River: A Ron Pearlman recommendation on TCM Tuesday, this Howard Hawkes masterpiece still resonates. Most John Wayne fans have a list of his favorite co-stars, with company favorites like Walter Brennan, Ward Bond and Maureen O’Hara. I’ll go with Montgomery Clift. He’s an absolute monster, and like the greats, can come off as [...] MOVIE REVIEW: “The Three Musketeers” (2011) This is an unabashedly stupid movie, but it just might be the *cleverest* stupid movie I’ve ever seen. The film it’s closest to in style, spirit and purpose is “Team America: World Police,” and it its own way, it’s even less restrained, though it’s also far less pointed. There’s [...] Forget John Galt, find my agent! …but Kyle Smith kind of liked it! Threedonia frequenter and sometime poster, Film Critic (that’s right, I said, “film”), Christian Toto was underwhelmed with the first of a proposed three part movie series on Ayn Rand’s most famous work. I don’t want to poach traffic from [...] Still not sure how they’re going to digitally re-work the US being so indebted to the North Koreans, but stranger things have worked in Hollywood. Plus, with the movie seemingly on the shelf for the long-haul, who really cares who’s the villain? With fair warning the full Libertas review of the pre-censored Red Dawn [...] Clean and sober… New Arthur adheres to PC playbook Foster Brooks may spin in his grave when he learns Arthur has gone clean and sober. “Arthur,” the 1981 comedy starring Dudley Moore as a lush who finds love with Liza Minnelli, is being remade with Russell Brand in the leading role. If [...] Did the decade end last year or this year? I always believed it ended on the 10. No matter, here are my Top Fives in Film for the past, er, decade. Read at your own peril, hate at your own whim. 1. Seabiscuit: New Deal preaching aside, a wonderful movie and perhaps the best [...] It takes most directors years to become caricatures of themselves. For Todd Phillips, it took one movie. “Due Date,” Phillips’ latest project, is his follow-up to the immensely popular and successful “The Hangover,” a movie now firmly entrenched in the American zeitgeist. Like the old ball coach, it’s hard to fault one for running [...] These ‘Whites’ are local trash heroes Think about the most extreme country western song you ever heard, a tale of outlaws who cuss and fight and then cuss and fight some more just for giggles. You’ve just scratched the surface of the White clan. “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia,” produced by [...] In honor of this past week’s release of Iron Man 2 on DVD, here’s my review of the film when it was in the theater in May. —————————————— “Who is Tony Stark?” Will that be the chant ringing in the streets? Jon Favereau’s treatment of everyone’s favorite billionaire super-hero has all the touches of [...] “Duck Soup: 2 pudgy thumbs, way up!” I know some of you out there have been film critics. I just stumbled onto this. Tony Katz is looking for a movie critic who is not Roger Ebert to review films for his radio show. Those interested candidates should submit a one-minute audio or video [...] "Don't F this up, Mitchell!!!!"
When it comes to 80s high school movies, there’s no arguing with John Hughes’ king of the hill crown. However, with the possible exception of Sixteen Candles, 23 years after being one of the few people to see Three O’Clock High in the theatre (a $3.6 [...] MOVIES THAT RUINED THE WORLD: Rounders (1998) The Movie John Dahl’s “Rounders” survives on the breadth of a supporting cast that carries much more heft than its leads, or its flimsy and flawed script. Still, this myth-making ode to poker hits enough right notes and is indelibly entertaining. Share on [...] |
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