I will have many things to say about the Oppenheimer movie when I see it. I have many things to say about it now. I am concerned that it will valorize the wrong things - how World War II ended, solely male scientists, physics as...
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(Warning - The video contains John Kricfalusi-style potty humor) The Academy Awards are a few weeks away and there's no chance Appellate Films - producer of such cinematic blockbusters.
Someone mentioned they'd be up at 4 a.m. ET. Here's a ridiculous film for a ridiculous hour. As a semi-related aside, I saw the complete Blackadder collection at Costco.
A great piece on the wonderful Robert Ryan, one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood history. I was actually thinking of writing a series of posts on Ryan myself, but I'll let this suffice. I think Ryan's characters are almost uniformly wonderful--the lieutenant desperate...
Excellent essay at Only the Cinema on Out of Sight, clearly Soderbergh's best film (though a strong case can be made for The Limey) and one of the most entertaining.
The Netflix price spike annoys me as much as everyone else. I don't mind paying for my films, and indeed I do, but the combination of the on-demand and mail.
Alyssa Rosenberg (whose work I think is fantastic) poses a great question: ...it struck me all over again how few movies we have about the Revolutionary War. I’d looked into this a couple of years ago, but it’s really kind of stunning. The success of...
Edward Copeland with an absolutely fantastic discussion of Hitchcock's superb Strangers on a Train, especially Robert Walker's titanic work as the uber-creepy Bruno. Copeland concludes: Finally, there's the climax on.
In the comments to yesterday's post on German Civil War reenactors, people mentioned Germans' love of westerns. This reminded of the remarkable box set released by First Run Features a.