"It's not a lie...it's a gift for fiction!"
This was one of the favorite films of a roommate of mine in college and I don't think I had seen it since 2004 or so. (You know how much my roommate loved it? His email sign off was always "Go You Huskies" and I don't think i even got that reference til about a year or two into knowing him) ("Ohh it's from...that makes sense")
Anyways this movie is great, this…
"It Is Accomplished!"
I got assigned this one for this month's Tradefest, and it being maybe the only major Scorsese I had yet to actually see felt compelled to check it off rather than take a pass on it. (Not that I've ever taken a pass on something assigned to me in the past but I could've seen myself being like "Yeah, no I'm good here...thanks" with this) I genuinely don't know what to rate it. I'm giving it a…
Odd, eerie film about a high ranking politico figure in Poland in the late 70s (so he's a high ranking Communist official) who randomly finds himself deemed a non person anymore more or less. He's understandably curious about why he's been labeled such a thing while still being alive. After all he knows first hand that if somebody wanted him gone, he could easily be disappeared or sent to be some ambassador to Peru or forced to step down. Instead…
This Rocked! The commitment to all the running bits here is great. Like late in the movie Tom Atkins is on the run and being chased by all the bad guys and he sees a phone and so who does he call? His ex-wife whom we had seen him arguing with over the phone at several different moments in the movie before the plot really kicked in. And what happens when he calls her? She yells at him just like…
