September 9, 2008: Three Blind Mice It’s very strange to go into a movie theatre at 9am and see it full of people. Sure, more of them have coffee than popcorn, but it’s still weird. But, such is life for those at film festivals. Three Blind Mice is an Australian film about three Navy soldiers […]
September 8, 2008: Hooked During the Toronto International Film Festival, I often get out to see a handful of films. The first of seven this year was Hooked, from Romania (original title: Pescuit sportiv). The movie is about a couple heading out on a picnic who accidentally hit a prostitute at the roadside with their […]
September 6, 2008: West Side Story Sometimes watching movies is more like work than it is like fun, and this can particularly be the case with 1960s Best Picture winners. I can recall watching A Man For All Seasons in school and finding it quite dull. I just recently saw The Sound of Music for […]
September 5, 2008: Say Anything This is one of the oft-referenced classics of ’80s teen cinema. John Cusack was well-known at the time but not yet a huge star. He’s another actor I’ve always considered myself to like, but I haven’t really seen much of his work. Grosse Pointe Blank really worked for me, though, […]
September 3, 2008: Boarding Gate I was on a bit of an Asia Argento kick recently. Typically that means that I research and read about someone’s movies/career, think that I’d love to see every single one of their movies, and then I don’t follow through at all, because spending an hour reading about movies is […]
August 30, 2008: Drillbit Taylor I’m a Judd Apatow trooper, so of course this had to come my way sometime. It’s another high-concept comedy, this one about some nerdy high school kids who hire a bodyguard to save them from torment at the hands of the standard Hollywood-movie-high-school antagonists, primarily jocks. The bodyguard is vastly […]
August 30, 2008: Zodiac I’m a big David Fincher fan. I loved Se7en. Fight Club was one of the crown jewels of 1999, which was a real peak movie year for me, with 4 or 5 movies that rocked my world, and that was one of them. I hadn’t paid much attention to Alien 3 […]
August 29, 2008: Hamlet 2 Two comedies in the theatre in one night. I’ve discovered in recent years that if I’m going out for one movie, I might as well go to two, since I’m there anyway, and the evening is “occupied” anyway. Works for me. Our second film this evening was Hamlet 2. My […]
August 29, 2008: Tropic Thunder I saw this with my wife and some friends in the theatre. I was a bit scared, after the unconventional opening, that my wife would hate the film, since it was all movie in-jokes and over-the-top profanity (both of which I love and neither of which she has much use […]
August 24, 2008 (I think): Step Brothers. I watched Step Brothers. I admit it. This movie was judged by a friend to not be suitable for spending money to see in the theatre. This friend was correct. I’m a devotee of the current flood of Judd Apatow movies, even though only a handful of them […]