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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
