It's nice to know that the American obsession with college sports isn't a recent phenomenon. This is a film straightforwardly about why you should learn to be athletic instead of just a nerdy dweeb. We don't see that very often, in a way it's refreshing.
Buster Keaton is a fantastic physical performer as always. He gets in some great prop gags in this movie too, although not quite as out there and imaginative as some of his other films. We…
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a pretty good episode of Star Trek, but buried under over an hour of extra garbage. The problem is that it's supposed to be a movie, but it never quite lands that cinematic feeling.
The biggest problem is the pacing. This script feels like it was first written as an hour long TV show episode and then stretched out. It takes forty-five minutes for the plot to start, nearly all of the first half…
Conclave meets the Catholic Church on its own ground, phenomenology and embodied religion, and asks it to recognize the implication of it's own philosophy.
I love almost every visual choice made in this movie. The cinematography is excellent, in a few scenes breathtaking. The costuming sticks to the uniforms of the Catholic Church, but the choice of which to wear in each scene is excellent. The sets are beautiful and very realistic. For a moment it felt like they were…
Invasion of the Bee Girls is shockingly good considering it's premise. We have the silliness the title promises, but behind that this film has a lot to say about sexuality and gender politics.
There are a few interesting discussions about the relationship between sex and death. Orgasm is often described as "the little death", and the film makes references to this. More interesting is the conversation several men have about death, one of them is adamant that he wants to…
