cinema reviews
Why I am afraid of HOUSE…
September 30th, 2010
My wife and I knew Hugh Laurie as a gullible Prince Regent from Black Adder and the foppish man-boy from Jeeves and Wooster long before he embraced his inner curmudgeon and ditched his accent to play doctor as Gregory House, M.D. for six seasons of FOX’s hit show. I’ll probably break down and pull up [...]
Read More...(INCEPTION) “This is the really REAL world…”
September 21st, 2010
“… there ain’t no comin’ back!” – a babbling T-Bird, from The Crow (this is part of a series on Inception with increasing SPOILERS – start with the spoiler-free intro here.) Inception deals with the limitations of our subjective stance – as creatures, not Creator – and even as Cobb’s team puts together dreams, architecting – [...]
Read More...Last Exorcism Botches & Blairs (witch, not Linda)
September 17th, 2010
Whether you’ve grown tired or more intrigued by the faux-documentaries of late (popularized and polarized by The Blair Witch Project and continuing with films like Cloverfield and [REC] or the American Quarantine) The Last Exorcism starts with a promising first act and I’d recommend the first half hour be required viewing for pastors. Sadly, the second [...]
Read More...Subjecting yourself to INCEPTION…
September 10th, 2010
“Our dreams, they feel real while we’re in them right? Its only when we wake up then we realize that something was actually strange!” – Cobb, from Inception “…most recent philosophers, since the Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, have concluded that scientific knowledge is systematic knowledge of the nature of existing things as [...]
Read More...From Cliffhangers to TopSpinners via INCEPTION
August 27th, 2010
The term “cliffhanger” emerged between the early 1900s and 1937 in silent films, featuring (according to Wikipedia) “a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction… hoped to ensure the audience will return to see how the characters resolve the [...]
Read More...Waking from INCEPTION
August 24th, 2010
“What’s the most resilient parasite? An Idea. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.” What is Christopher Nolan REALLY trying to tell us with his arguable masterpiece of cinema that made the box office wake up with a start this summer? [...]
Read More...It all keeps coming back to the BOOK (of Eli)
August 17th, 2010
Right now, Inception and The Book of Eli are battling in my mind for best film of the year. We’ve already visited the post-apocalyptic vision by screenwriter Gary Whitta and the directors Hughes with a multi-part review on this site, and even got to comment on Denzel Washington’s portrayal of biblical manhood (plus a few [...]
Read More...Pass the SALT…
August 4th, 2010
SALT is an enjoyable film, and though not on par with recent Bourne and Bond entries, it is a tight – if not plausible – thriller on par with the equally plot-holed but gripping TAKEN, along with some of the flavor of Harrison Ford’s FUGITIVE remake. It’s also commendable for giving us a trailer which [...]
Read More...INCEPTION: Dream a little Dreamscape of Me…
July 23rd, 2010
In 1984, a scary movie debuted called A Nightmare on Elm Street, birthing a scarred maniac who would lead a genre with a killer franchise for years to come. A lesser known thriller starring Dennis Quaid would make a relatively forgettable debut, though Dreamscape marked one of the first few films with a PG-13 rating [...]
Read More...A SHINING Overlook with Stanley
July 13th, 2010
My wife and I took a road trip from Seattle to Colorado and up into Wyoming to attend a conference and see Yellowstone National Park. With a rented Mustang convertible and over 9 hours of classic rock inspired by the television show Supernatural courtesy of our friend Dean (not THAT Dean), we found a cinema [...]
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