Movie Journal

eyeris.blogspot.com What fine story-telling.  The narrative starts languorously , but the fun builds and builds.  Two things that particul...

allmoviephoto.com Stephen King, based on the few things of his I’ve read, doesn’t worry about anything except the straightforward story he’...

www.killahbees.com Very funny dialogue, plot twists.  I was going to put this in the unusual romantic comedy category until one of the twi...

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdreview/lastrada.htm At first it seemed too simple, too lacking in ironic perspective, but Fellini knew what...

http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/11/25/best-science-fiction-movies-of-the-last-decade-2000-2009/ Firefly sometimes traffics in ideas,...

laughingsquid.com A reference in a book I was reading to Star Trek (and the author meant the original show, I believe) as a very philosph...

http://pics.livejournal.com/glvalentine/pic/0001tx1w At the very first, things seem too stagey and arty; then it was gripping, a modern-day...

http://www.gamespot.com There's something either sadistic or masochistic about the script/story; it's Johnny-one-note-ish; it'...

http://www.smcm.edu/studentevents/2009/index.html What I had read, both before and after viewing the small part I watched, told me I shoul...

http://nurse-marbles.livejournal.com/61349.html This seems like a remake of La Dolce Vita, in which the main character is in semi-crisis b...

http://www.filmbender.com/steve-martin/ This has problems: Victoria Tennant often looks as if she weren't part of the movie; it makes ...

http://nickhornby.campaignserver.co.uk/?cat=5 This movie felt like too naked a depiction of an older man's desire for/seduction of/sex...

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2009/09/24/f-bright-star-review.html I would almost have labeled this great, because of its unusual, brav...

http://www.evspa.org/king_and_i.asp You've got to love musical theater to love this, and you have to be willing to be compassionate t...

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReview/tocatchathief.htm The visuals have a pronounced role--there is so much driving along the edges of...

http://www.benjaminharlow.com/alloftheabove/archives/827 Somewhat tedious, somewhat slow, slightly prurient, a somewhat prone to falling ...

http://unebellefille.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/2007_enchanted_035.jpg A weird movie to categorize and describe--is it cute, is it campy...

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare11/12monkeys.htm Acting award to Brad Pitt; Bruce Willis may be a little too Johnny-one-note.  Thi...

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare5/meanstreets.htm Scorsese does like his acting intense.  The relative ordinariness of the conflic...

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews19/marx_brothers_boxset.htm A bit less anarchic, a bit more conventional, in that there's a c...