Category Archives: Favorite movies
Beyond the Pines and other delightful tunes
I’ve been far too busy, and far too disinterested, to post anything in quite a while, but I must now share with you, dear readers, my latest discoveries. I’ll speak chiefly at this time of two films, married together (or more correctly distantly related) by a common theme of standing up to corrupt coworkers. The […]
Soundtrack Competition Part I
Well it seems hardly anyone gives a damn about this, but here goes anyway. I promised a poll/competition to find the greatest movie soundtrack of them all, and, while I’m sure we won’t actually find that here today, it may be fun to do some comparisons. First match-ups are as follows: If your favorite got […]
On the Importance of Music
I have stated on many occasions why I feel music in a film is as important as the visuals, if not more so: you can close your eyes… Nothing brings a story into our hearts like the right music. So I’m going to propose a little fun this month: I’m going to write a bit […]
Some Entertaining History Lessons
What a day! Spent over five hours sitting in a movie theater watching Civil War era films, yet didn’t get quite so weepy eyed like when watching the Ken Burns documentary with all the sad violins and whatnot. (Although I have to admit, I came close to wet eyeing it a couple of times – […]
Request
With all the recent remakes out there, I feel the need to offer a little direction to any producer listening. Please remake Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck’s novel is (one of) the best of all classic American novels, but the ancient film just doesn’t do it justice. Censored and abridged almost to the point of […]
What a Show!
I, being homebound by a bout with the ol’ strep throat, took the opportunity to re-watch The Truman Show. I loved this movie when I first saw it and I loved it even more this time. I remembered vaguely that the movie had a powerful story, but I had forgotten how much the music contributes […]
The Trouble with Classics
Got around to finally seeing two great classic films. Trouble is, despite having never seen either of them before, I sort of felt like I had. First off, Citizen Kane, sometimes heralded as the greatest film ever. I had been wanting to see this film for some time due to this respectable distinction. I deliberately […]
My top ten (or so) favorite Science Fiction movies of all time
I’ve deliberately made this list controversial, in the hopes you wonderful readers will jog my memory with your own favorites and remind me of movies I have forgotten about. Of course, this is a list of my favorite movies, ergo, television shows like The Twilight Zone (which is some of the best Sci-Fi in existence) […]
The Tree of Life
This is the movie that broke the camel’s back, to mangle the metaphor [BTW, I won't be giving it a thorough review here, plenty has been written already - for my opinion of the movie, read on]. I dislike DVDs, generally. Oh, they were great in 1990. They were okay in 2000. But this is […]
