It just gets worse over time, but Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance only gets better. He eats shit on a dance floor in the first ninety seconds and I'm already rewinding it. Basketball hijinks, the shart, acting like a diva during rehearsals for a community theater production for Jesus Christ Superstar, it's all absolute gold. Bonus points for Baldwin and Azaria, too. Again, this is a terrible movie, annoying and utterly hollow, but the PSH of it all...
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 2008
Miss Pettigrew has that lovable 1930s peppiness. It's somewhat screwball with its nonstop comedy crises, but there's a good helping of earthiness to balance it out. My favorite part is the budding romance between Frances McDormand and Ciaran Hinds, the only fucking grownups in this turd circus of fashion and fanfare. Amy Adams is also superb as a hustling sexpot with a half dozen suitors. It's one of those vapid airhead roles, but, under the tutelage of Miss Pettigrew, we…
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The Train 1964
The phrase "you could never make this movie today" does not even begin to encapsulate the enormity of The Train. You could never make this movie in 1964.
Burt Lancaster walks across the train yard from the switch tower to his houseboat. The movie does not demand a flawlessly orchestrated background of shifting artillery vessels, marching soldiers, construction crews, smoke, and sparks. Anyone in their right mind would say, "Hey, can we not? Let's just have him entering the houseboat."…
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Tender Mercies 1983
Tender Mercies feels like an 8 hour movie reduced to its most poetic moments. There are worlds and events and lives surrounding it, but we're living on the fringe of it all. That's not to say there aren't pivotal dramatic events, but there's something about the expanse of sky, whistling wind, and passing cars that gives everything an ethereal feel. It's practically dreamlike. It reminds me of No Country for Old Men in many ways. Not just the land of…
