I'm a Lutheran pastor living in Kansas and sometimes I watch movies.
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllRecent reviews
More-
El Dorado 1966
In the midst of life we are in death;
from whom can we seek help?
From You alone, O Lord,
who by our sins are justly angered.
Holy God, holy and mighty, holy and merciful Savior,
deliver us not into the bitterness of eternal death.Lord, You know the secrets of our hearts;
shut not Your ears to our prayers, but spare us, O Lord.
Holy God, holy and mighty, holy and merciful Savior,
deliver us not into the bitterness…Translated from by -
L.A. Confidential 1997
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This is like ninety-nine percent of the way to a truly great, all-time movie, but then it fumbles the ending. How dare you make a noir where one of the characters gets an unambiguously happy ending? It's a shame to see it trip on the finishing line, but that's how it goes.
But it was good to see squibs again, and there's some good noiry lines ("Go back to Jersey, sonny. This is the City of Angels, and you haven't…
Translated from by
Popular reviews
More-
Le Samouraï 1967
It is absolutely one hundred percent true that guys watch a movie like this and think, "Yeah, I'd probably look that cool in a raincoat and hat."
Much more of a police procedural than I expected. The violence comes in thunderbursts, more loud than exciting, but the film is more interested in the way Jef prepares for the violence and how he deals with the consequences of it than trying to portray a gun fight as cool. The result is a film that makes me want to take up smoking as an aesthetic.
Translated from by -
The Producers 2005
I liked this in my youth, but my tolerance for theater kid energy has waned, and no matter how hard Nathan Lane and Susan Stroman try, they don't quite get that Brooksian self-aware humor right, something that Brooks himself started to fail at near the end of his career.
But the music is good, and the jokes are well-written, and the film's commitment to the "Springtime to Hitler" set piece is admirable. Though, I wonder: is this now considered problematic?…
Translated from by
