Never Too Old
This one’s for my friend Hugh. Last night I watched my Criterion DVD of Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog, a very influential Japanese crime/suspense movie from 1949. Good flick. The first of its kind, according to the documentary on the disc. The documentary interviews (in recent times) some of the cast and [...]
Christ, The Devil and The Closet
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is the longest movie title of the year. I’m pretty sure. I went into the movie not having read the books and only knowing that it was about a group of kids who end up in a magical otherworld in the throes [...]
Kong Vs Kong
Before viewing Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong, currently in theaters, I bought and watched the special edition DVD of the original 1933 King Kong. I’m sure I must’ve seen the original before, but it was such a long time ago that watching the DVD was like a revelation. It holds together very well [...]
Clooney Is Everywhere
It was a Clooney-a-thon weekend, as I saw both Good Night, And Good Luck (which George Clooney directed and co-starred in) and Syriana (which Clooney starred in). Good Night, the story of CBS newsman Edward R Murrow’s tussle with communist-hunting senator Joe McCarthy in the 50s, served well as a character study, an historical [...]
Make Your Own Flasshe Post
This morning, when I was drifting back and forth between wakefulness and semi-wakefulness and waiting for the alarm to go off, my mind conjured up an idea for a blog entry that sounded pretty good at the time. In the cold harsh light of day, it doesn’t seem so great. It was going [...]
Brief Sibling Movie Reviews
I don’t normally do this sort of thing, but this cracked me up. Here’s an e-mail excerpt from my older sister Jo, talking about airplane movies on her & her husband Jerry’s recent anniversary trip to Hawaii (”Charlie” refers to Charlie and The Chocolate Factory):
I thought Charlie was very dark and loud. Yuk! Then [...]