10 Campy Classics: A Cinematic Carnival
Jul01

10 Campy Classics: A Cinematic Carnival

These movies, often so all over the place to practically avoid the definition of “actual cinema”, manage to create a new and chaotic movie genre, where all receptions, positive, negative, mocking, and intellectual curiosity are all on the table.

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Three Colors: Blue & The Modern Ice Age
Jun24

Three Colors: Blue & The Modern Ice Age

It is something that supplants notions of levity and rescue. Binoche wades through the color blue with the force of a flamed out comet – pieces of her are lost along the way. Tumbling, roaring, and hissing to a complete implosion.

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10 Unmissable Comedies
Jun23

10 Unmissable Comedies

Character actor Edmund Gwenn is credited with the quote, “Dying is easy, comedy is hard” as he lay in his deathbed. He was right. Picking out a top ten list was a daunting task.

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10 Bad Movies w/ Great Actresses
Jun13

10 Bad Movies w/ Great Actresses

In most cases on this list, the actresses themselves provided a reliable level of effort and skill, it was just the movie that failed to piece enough interesting things together.

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Warriors, Wits & Wonders: Eastern Action
Jun07

Warriors, Wits & Wonders: Eastern Action

Below is my list of favorite ten martial arts films. Yes, I have included “The Seven Samurai.” Some people think it does not qualify as a true martial arts film, and that it is an epic, or simply a story of good-versus-evil: these people need to go back to film school and sit through multiple viewings of “Un chien Andalou”

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10 Great Actors in Bad Movies
May30

10 Great Actors in Bad Movies

Acting, even in Hollywood, is a tough business. Sure, you say, all the fame and wealth, but that’s for a pretty small percentage of the people working. And even for those lucky few, they get to hear people talk about how entitled and stupid they are in public forums, constantly.

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Meg Remy: Exploration & Fog
May29

Meg Remy: Exploration & Fog

It’s difficult to imagine that the Toronto-based singer isn’t aware of her own voice’s incorporeal uniqueness, one that melts like gallium in the heat of her records’ warm production.

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The 10 Best Western Films
May28

The 10 Best Western Films

Starting with 1903’s “The Great Train Robbery”, the western has been a staple of American, and international, cinema. The genre can range from savagely brutal, like “The Hateful Eight,” to side-splitting comedy like “Blazing Saddles.”

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10 Bad Movies by Great Directors
May22

10 Bad Movies by Great Directors

Follow me on a tribute to what amounts to the relatable humanity of film legends, where the best intentions and a reputation for success lead to the same kind of dreck us regular mortals know all too well.

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Criterion Critique: Une Chambre en Ville
May14

Criterion Critique: Une Chambre en Ville

From the pastel-dotted reverie that is “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” to the surreal, indolent, and fur-spun fairy tale of “Donkey Skin”, director Jacques Demy is known for scrambling levity with abstract realism.

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