Cary Fukunaga's rendition of Charlotte Brontë's genre defining gothic romance is a wonderfully beautiful and impressionistic film, with a rich atmosphere and subdued yet powerful performances weaving together in an elegant and emotive retelling of the classic tale.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a refreshingly unpretentious film that's main goal is to entertain in a uniquely laid back and amiable manner, a task which it does with flying colors.
They Live! is a bit of an enigma for me.
On the one hand, the film's humor and action sequences are really fun, and John Carpenter knows how to direct that stuff expertly.
On the other hand, the screenplay, while being a source for much of the humor, is also horrifically unsubtle in it's message, delivering it with all the grace and subtly of an atomic bomb in a dynamite factory. Let's break it down a bit, shall we?
First, let's deal with the positives, since there are quite a few:
Just thought I'd tell you guys, I'm giving you a few poster pictures for films I plan on reviewing later in time. When I have the time to do so. It won't be in the order its shown, but they are a few films I plan to review for you guys.
So apparently, this film is often cited as 'the best Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made'.
It isn't. At all.
I did folly (audio recording) for this short film my friend made.
You should check it out :D
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This is your jolly as always film and tv show reporter here with another film review.
And today, following an announcement I made at the end of one of my latest film reviews, I will be making an analysis on Disney's "Aladdin (2019)".
In this sprawling, three hour recounting of the final years of the reign (and life) of Tsar Nicholas II, the final Tsar of Russia.
And suffice to say, I liked it.
Yep, you're reading this correctly, folks. Starting from today, I'll be watching every single Spider-Man movie that's ever been released, including the bad ones. I've already watched the first two Sam Raimi films today (which surprisingly hold up really well after all these years) and tomorrow, I'll be watching both Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man duology.
Oh, boy. That's gonna be fun.
German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's debut feature is a startlingly assured and intimate film, quietly and effectively creating both a subtle morality play, and an enrapturing character study within the oppressive and alienating world of East Germany in the early 1980s.
5. A Hearth's Warming Tail
4. A Christmas Carol (2009)
3. The Muppet Christmas Carol
2. Scrooged
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This is your top-of-the-line film, TV show, and episode reporter here with another review.
Today, for my first film analysis of 2024, I'm gonna give you guys my take of "TOGO".
As with the other biographical movies I reviewed in the past, I'll be skipping on doing a summary for this movie. But, I will say this:
You know, you'd think something as unadulteratedingly over the top, theatrical and romanticized as Andrew Lloyd Webber's ABSURDLY popular musical The Phantom of the Opera would make a rather enjoyable cinematic experience. I mean, I've seen the Royal Albert Hall 30th Anniversary performance at least twice, and it's a good, solid play, with awesome songs, and a really good visual aesthetic.
Eyes Wide Shut was Stanley Kubrick's final film, and in many ways, his most complex and disturbing, being a disturbingly voyeuristic psychological study of infidelity and human sexuality and marriage.
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold…”
And with those lines, so begins Terry Gilliam’s nightmarish and incomprehensible (and ultimately meaningless) orgy of hallucinatory, nightmare inducing imagery and meandering monologuing haze of a film that refuses to follow any semblance of normalcy or logic, instead existing in its own disturbing two hour drug induced haze of paranoia and madness.
George Miller's directorial debut is a surprisingly well put together film that manages to provide both great action and great character drama, while also providing a great piece of entertainment.
Wake me up, Wake me up inside (I can't wake up), wake me up inside, save me from the dark--
What? That's exactly what was running through my mind when I watched this movie.