Red Riding Hood is supposed to be, I assume, a scary re-telling of the famous fairy tale. It looks more like director Catherine Hardwicke trying to stick it to Summit Entertainment for firing her from directing the rest of the Twilight films. Red Riding Hood is visually striking but lacks any shred of substance, story, [...]
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Red Riding Hood
Posted in 2011, Film, USA, tagged Amanda Seyfried, Catherine Hardwicke, Red Riding Hood, Terrible on March 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Magnolia: This Is Something That Happens
Posted in 1999, Film, Paul Thomas Anderson, USA, tagged Birthday, Julianne Moore, Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson, Perfect, Tom Cruise, William H. Macy on March 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Today is my birthday! Well, not exactly, my birthday is February 29th and it doesn’t come around this year. So, in honor of my fake birthday I watched one of my top two favorite movies of all time. My all time favorite movie that I am not posting about is La mala educación/Bad Education by [...]
Little Ashes: Empieza el llanto
Posted in Film, Spain, tagged Federico García Lorca, Little Ashes, Luis Buñuel, Robert Pattinson, RPattz, Salvador Dalí on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Look, I know. I know that everybody hates this movie. It got a whopping 24% on Rotten Tomatoes. A.O. Scott thought it was terrible. But too bad for them, because as usual, I enjoyed a film that got horrible reviews, although I’m not going to try to defend it. Paul Morrison’s 2008 film Little Ashes [...]
The Case for Female Directors: Zoe Cassavetes
Posted in Film, USA, tagged Broken English, Parker Posey, Zoe Cassavetes on June 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The film industry is dominated by men. I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently and have tried to seek out female directors. Zoe Cassavetes, daughter of director John Cassavetes, wrote and directed her 2007 Broken English. It was not a very good film. It was a lot like a Hollywood romantic movie, but with [...]
Death In America
Posted in 2002, Film, UK, tagged Children, Death, E.T., In America, Ireland, Jim Sheridan, Samantha Morton, UK on May 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Jim Sheridan’s 2002 film In America is beautifully written and shot. It is touching and it will probably make you cry. It bears no resemblance to my favorite terrible movie, Sheridan’s 2005 biopic of 50 Cent, Get Rich or Die Tryin’. In America follows a family who has just come to America from Ireland. But, [...]
Why?
Posted in Film, USA, tagged America, Film Industry, Independent Film, James Cameron, Mainstream, Pedro Almodóvar, Spain on May 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Over the last year and a half, every couple of weeks one of these posters started showing up all over New York City: on bus stops, in the subway, on construction sites, and of course on television. Although I have not actually seen any of these films, and while I’m sure they are enjoyable to [...]
Sin Nombre
Posted in 2009, Film, Mexico, tagged Cary Fukunaga, Diego Luna, Film, Gael García Bernal, Guatemala, Immigration, Mexico, Sin Nombre on March 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Sin Nombre is Cary Fukunaga’s 2009 film about illegal immigration and gang warfare in Central America. I had been meaning to watch this film because Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna are the executive producers. When I saw them speak after a screening of Rudo y Cursi (2009), they talked about how they wanted to give Mexican [...]
Violent Island
Posted in 2009, Film, Martin Scorsese, USA, tagged Ben Kingsley, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Michelle Williams, Psychology, Shutter Island, Violence on March 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Shutter Island (2009) finally came out, and I saw it on its opening night. I really enjoyed it, despite all the bad reviews about how it is disappointing and not Martin Scorsese’s best work. It’s certainly no Taxi Driver (1976) but I appreciate it for what it is, a good old-fashioned creepy movie with a straight narrative and a [...]
