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La La Land 2016
So thin and delicate that I'm sort of afraid to think about it too much because the whole thing will almost certainly fall apart at the slightest prodding, and I can't let that happen to a movie this pretty.
Also I pretty much never wear a tie but my first thought as soon as the movie ended was "I need all of Gosling's ties." That's probably the level at which a movie like this is best enjoyed, and I think…
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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life 2016
Where Amy Sherman-Palladino leads, I will follow. Her husband....not so much.
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Blood and Black Lace 1964
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah: Baby's First Hoop-Tober (3.0)
Joins Zack Snyder's Watchmen adaptation in the highly exclusive pantheon of Heavily Stylized Violent Movies In Which Much of Said Heavily Stylized Violence Is Performed by a Misogynist Creep Dressed Almost Exactly Like DC Comics' The Question and Whose Opening Credits Are Far and Away the Best Part of the Movie.
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Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids 2016
Jonathan Demme's Talking Heads movie Stop Making Sense is the best concert film ever made because every aspect of it was conceived from the ground up as a cinematic experience, a true concert film. That Demme's newest concert film is merely an expertly, sometimes stunningly filmed concert, then, can't help but be a little bit of a disappointment. It's not that Demme doesn't pull plenty of nifty stuff from his bag of tricks here, but that his bolder cinematic instincts…
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Who Killed Captain Alex? 2010
"Movie!"
Everyone keeps comparing VJ Emmie to MST3K, but I don't quite think that's accurate. Sure, VJ Emmie dishes out plenty of light ribbing and sarcastic self-deprecation throughout his commentary, but unlike the MST3K guys he is unequivocally on the movie's side. The commentary genuinely punctuates, amplifies, and hypes more often than it undercuts. A better point of comparison might be Guy Maddin's intertitles, which are similarly used to pepper films with extradiegetic interjections that playfully relay plot information, provide…
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The Bride of Frankenstein 1935
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah: Baby's First Hoop-Tober (3.0)
Actually it's the Bride of Frankenstein's Monster.
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance 1995
You can tell this movie wasn't written by a native New Yorker because of the multiple scenes of car chase banter that are clearly trying to graft LA traffic fetishism onto New York. Manhattan is a grid and most of us don't drive anyway, my dudes, why are you arguing over route options like a bunch of Angelenos?
Also, here's a pair of selected phresh 1995 pop culture references from this movie:
"Yeah, and I'm gonna marry Donald Trump."
"Who do you think you are, Hillary Clinton?"
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