Put on a happy face! Chase those blues away! Silent movies were filled with peppy, get-up-and-go protagonists who won the day (after a few setbacks) with a good attitude and a can-do spirit– and then there were the movies that satirized that very attitude. This month, we will be examining optimism in silent films. We’ve […]
101 Dalmatians (1996)
This is, as far as I can tell, the first movie I've ever watched on the strength of an algorithmic recommendation — and the fact that it is now one of my favorite films speaks to something about how good these tools are getting. 1Certainly not taste, but correlation.
Yep, it’s real good.
I'm not sure why, but this movie was not at all what I thought it was going to be. I don't just mean in terms of quality — though it certainly was better than I was assuming — but in terms of kind. In my head, this film was fairly generic crime fodder of the sort typical in the late nineties (perhaps it's the generic name that threw me off base). Instead, it was — and I truly don't mean this as damning with faint praise — an incredibly competent, efficient, and propulsive movie t...
The first recording today starts with end end of some kind of CCTV programme, Really Caught in the Act. Then it’s a repeat of Space 1999 – One Moment of Humanity. Media Centre Description: One Moment of Humanity: Intergalactic adventures of the space-travelling Moonbase Alpha team. The Alphans make contact with a planet of robot humans. […]
The ol’ movie blog is almost twenty years old, and for that entire time I’ve been reading Cinema Scope magazine. I subscribed after seeing Guy Maddin on the cover of issue 16 and stayed through Maddin’s cover of the final issue 97. It was a huge influence on what I chose to watch, and how […]
One of my favorite toys as a child was my View-Master. This handheld 3D stereoscope used cardboard reels containing images from some of my favorite movies and television shows. Now Fright Rags, the leader in quality horror-related apparel and accessories, introduced a Twin Peaks-themed reel pack for their unique Fright Scope Viewfinder. Suddenly, I feel... The post Twin Peaks Fright-Scope Reel Pack from Fright Rags appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.
The library had Quentin Tarantino’s book Cinema Speculation so I borrowed it. Very readable, but slightly overbearing, hectoring, in its tone. Some of QT’s observations are interesting, some tell you more about QT than about his subject. When he claims Scorsese is being disingenuous when he says he intended the climax of TAXI DRIVER to […]
My summary / review / thoughts about the 2023 film, The Holdovers. Directed by Alexander Payne and written by David Hemingson.
The world’s favourite adult pantomime returns to Broadway in a splashy, starry new revival. Note: having attended an early preview performance, this review is more of a general description of the production […]
Two big releases, so not a lot of room for other things! The Super Mario Galaxy Movie movie opened Wednesday and this weekend plays The Capitol Theatre, Fresh Pond (including 3D), Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday/Saturday), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema & XL & RealD 3D & Spanish), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, South Bay (
An intriguing movie gets lost somewhere in The Drama, the story of a pending marriage that's shaken when one of the partners reveals something horrible about her past. I won't spoil the big reveal, but I will say that Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli might have done well to pick a less explosive issue for a story that begins with a coffeeshop cute-meet between the partners in this prospective couple. Museum curator Robert Pattinson falls quickly for literary editor Emma (Zendaya). T...
Greetings on this Good Friday and a happy early Easter! In keeping with this spiritual time of the year I’m reposting my review of Lillian Gish’s The White Sister, a film that in many respects suited her to a “t.” … Continue reading →
As I mentioned earlier this week, Kristina and I are doing something a little different this month (and maybe next month!) and recommending pre-Code and film noir movies that we’re previously written about on our respective sites. My recommendations for April are all airing on the same day – April 8th – when TCM is […]
A spectactular series-conclusing string wall appears in the final episodes of season 3 of A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix, 2019).
The Fritzes award honors the best interfaces in a full-length motion picture in the past year. Interfaces play a special role in our movie-going experience, and are a craft all their own that does not otherwise receive focused recognition. Today we’ll be covering Best Believable. These movies’ interfaces adhere to solid computer-human-interaction principles and believable … Continue reading →
It's 2026, and suddenly we've got two lost episodes of Doctor Who unseen since 1965 to cast an irreverent eye over...
Vitals Eddie Murphy as Reggie Hammond, smooth criminal San Francisco, Summer 1982 Film: 48 Hrs. Release Date: December 8, 1982 Director: Walter Hill Costume Designer: Marilyn Vance WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Happy 65th birthday to Eddie Murphy, born April 3, 1961! Following his success as a stand-up comic and on Saturday Night Live, Murphy made his screen debut […] The post Eddie Murphy’s Glen Plaid Suit in 48 Hrs. appeared first on BAMF Style.
Jiji and Pinch’s Sailor Zombie is a bit weird, and turned out to be not much to my taste. It’s set in a world where zombies have risen, and some schoolgirls […]
The late, great, Japanese martial artist/actor/director Shin’ichi “Sonny” Chiba is best known to younger audiences as Hattori Hanzō from Kill Bill, but to an older generation, he was remembered for his 1970s Street Fighter films. One forgotten gem, 1979’s G.I. Samurai (aka Time Slip and Sengoku Self Defense Force) has just gotten a re-release via 4K Blu-ray restoration. If you
