In My Humble Fuck You Opinion #8… The Fall & Mongol
Brief reviews of 'The Fall' and 'Mongol.'
Brief reviews of 'The Fall' and 'Mongol.'
I go “dark” for the week or so before my magazine is due at the printer each month, an absence prolonged this time around due to a computer nightmare last week (system crashed, lost half the issue, etc.) Mea culpa. HARPER is one of these films I’d sort of casually heard of before, but no … Continue reading
The Future of Criticism? More people visit Itunes than CHUD.com and most of the sites like us. Well, there’s no site like us. We’re a peacock of a different beak, but there are other sites who offer fine criticism of films, DVDs, and the like. Some don’t actually offer much of anything I must admit. … Continue reading
A small rant on the Spiderman franchise
For a few years there, my favorite genre of movies, bar none, was romantic comedies. I am not ashamed of this. I am not. Ahem. It makes sense now why it happened. Boy in Pakistan hits puberty, any thought of sex induces unholy (literally) amounts of guilt, so he starts fantasizing about himself in loving … Continue reading
It’s kind of strange to see the sudden surge of critics tripping over themselves to say how much they love (and have always loved) Ang Lee’s Hulk. I mean, maybe they were there in 2003; I wasn’t tuned into critical movements at the time. But I kinda doubt it, because for the past five years, … Continue reading
I had decided that I needed to unwind with a nice quiet movie night at home. With no particular film in mind, I made my way down to the video store and wandered through the new releases section. It has been a slow couple of weeks for DVD releases so I wasn’t expecting much. … Continue reading
Robin Williams played one. As did Matt Dillon, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Nick Nolte and Samuel L. Jackson. The same goes for Liam Neeson. And Will Smith. Even Alice Cooper. Yep. They all played bums. When I was fifteen, I had a profound, life-altering experience. I was strolling around downtown Vancouver, my stomach full of Canadian bacon (or as Canadian’s … Continue reading
As I mentioned last week, I plan, from time to time, to talk here about some of the lesser known films of Akira Kurosawa, especially his war-time and post-war work. Last time, we looked at his fourth film, They Who Step On The Tiger’s Tail. Today, I’ll be talking about his second picture, The Most Beautiful. … Continue reading
So it seems Columbia is hell-bent on doing a fourth Spider-Man film, penciling in a release date of May 2011. I don’t know … do we really need another film? Especially when reaction to the third was so divided? Overall, fourth films in any series are usually desperate attempts to cash in on the nostalgia for … Continue reading