Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Recent activity
All
Recent reviews
More-
Salem's Lot 2024
Although there's a handful of good ideas here, this bites off entirely too much to chew on - not only in attempting to adapt the established story (however loosely), but in seemingly also wanting to be Stranger Things and Lost Boys (ironic humor? multiple needle-drops? an inexplicably precocious/badass child character? check, check, check), instead of having the courage to just be itself.
Translated from by -
The Secret Invasion 1964
Surprisingly dark and gory for the era (far more so than The Longest Day, which is only two years older; this is closer to a Samuel Fuller movie).
Mickey Rooney overdoes it as the leprechaun-esque, booze-obsessed IRA guy, but Henry Silva is outstanding.
Translated from by
Popular reviews
More-
Shadows 1958
John Cassavetes completed his directorial debut the same year that Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life - which also features a young African-American girl who "passes" - was released, but while Imitation of Life wraps this moving and compelling plotline in plush soap opera, Shadows strips it bare. Shot (illegally) on location in New York City, it resembles, as others have pointed it out, a motion picture version of Robert Frank's The Americans: unhappy lives in gritty yet luminous black and…
Translated from by -
Interstellar 2014
My advice: if you're going to see Interstellar - which has astounded many audiences and divided many critics - prepare to be exhausted.
This is exhausting in its huge scope, its Hans Zimmer score, and its expository approach to both science fiction and science fact. Depending on your personality and tastes, it may also be exhausting on an emotional level. Since I had both reactions, I have no doubt that some people will be deeply moved by this film's themes…
Translated from by
