Search for Film
-
Recent Posts
Archives
- March 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
Categories
Category Archives: Uncategorized
2023 Oscar Predictions
Until recently, there has been no film that has captured critical, awards, and audience consensus and has thus seemed bound for Oscar glory. That’s changed in the past month or so, as Everything Everywhere All at Once has landed on … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged All About Eve, All Quiet on the Western Front, Angela Bassett, Anthony Hopkins, Applause, Austin Butler, Avatar: The Way of Water, Babylon, Bette Davis, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Born Yesterday, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Elvis, Everything Everwhere All at Once, Fire of Love, Gloria Swanson, Guillermo del Toro's PInocchio, Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Holliday, Ke Huy Quan, Martin McDonagh, Michelle Yeoh, Naatu Naatu, Navalny, Oscars, Parasite, RRR, Sarah Polley, Stephanie Hsu, Sunset Boulevard, Tar, Tell It Like a Woman, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Fabelmans, The Father, The Whale, Top Gun: Maverick, Women Talking
Leave a comment
Jesus Revolution
It’s impossible to be whatever “objective” is with this film, much like the struggle I had writing about Isn’t It Romantic, which was directed by my friend and former film student Todd Strauss-Schulson. In that instance, this was a major … Continue reading
A Man Called Otto/A Man Called Ove
Tom Hanks’ new film is an American remake of Sweden’s submission for 2016’s Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, A Man Called Ove, which also received an Oscar nomination for Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling. It’s enjoyable, or what … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged A Man Called Otto, A Man Called Ove, Da Vinci Code, Elvis, Mariana Trevino, The Ladykillers, Tom Hanks
Leave a comment
Show People (1928)
Silent and early sound film star Marion Davies was a wonderful comedienne when given the chance, and perhaps there was no greater opportunity for her to show her talents than in 1928’s Show People, her last major role in a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged A Star is Born, Bill Gates, Blazing Saddles, Charles Chaplin, Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane, Claire Windsor, Dorothy Comingore, Dorothy Sebastian, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Eileen Pringle, Elon Musk, Estelle Taylor, George K. Arthur, Jeff Bezos, John Gilbert, Karl Dane, King Vidor, Louella Parsons, Mank, Marianne, Marion Davies, Norma Talmadge, Renée Adorée, San Luis Obispo, San Simeon, Show People, singin' in the rain, What Price Hollywood?, William Hart, William Randolph Hearst
Leave a comment
Avatar: The Way of Water
Thirteen years after the record-breaking Avatar was released, we finally get the first of several sequels. I managed to see it under the best of (visual) circumstances, in our local IMAX theater. Yes, it’s stunning to the eye, and actually … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, Imax, Jack Champion, Jake Sully, James Cameron, Job, Moby Dick, Neytiri, Sam Worthington, Stephen Lang, YA, Zoe Saldana
Leave a comment
Quick Takes: Disenchanted and Spirited
OK, there are a lot of new Christmastime movies to watch, and usually I wait awhile to see them. But this time, I saw two of the most promoted ones early on. Here are my quick thoughts: Disenchanted My wife … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged A Christmas Carol, Aladdin, Alan Menken, Amy Adams, Andalasia, Beauty and the Beast, Charles Dickens, Disenchanted, Enchanted, Frozen, Gabriella Baldacchino, Hercules, Idina Menzel, Jesus, Octavia Spencer, Patrick Page, Ryan Reynolds, Scrooge, Tangled, The Little Mermaid, Tracy Morhan, Wicked, Will Ferrell
Leave a comment
She Said
From l: Zoe Kazan, Carey Mulligan, Andre Braugher, and Patricia Clarkson in She Said She Said is the “coulda-shoulda” disappointment of the Oscar movie season thus far. The story is still great—reporters, who have real lives outside of their work, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged All the President's Men, An Education, Andre Baugher, angela Yeoh, Ashley Judd, Carey Mulligan, Ernst Lubitsch, Gloria Allred, Harvey Weinstein, Jennifer Ehle, Lisa Bloom, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Friedman, Promising Young Woman, Spotlight, Succession, The Big Sick, Zoe Kazan
Leave a comment
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
In the wake of the death of the legendary Angela Lansbury, I thought I’d take another look at her third Oscar-nominated performance in the 1962 version of The Manchurian Candidate. It’s a film that disappeared for a while, so it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Angela Lansbury, Beauty and the Beast, Blow-Out, Blow-Up, China, Cold War, Edgar Wright, Frank Sinatra, Gaslight, James Brooks, John Frankenheimer, Joss Whedon, Laurence Harvey, Marathon Man, Murder She Wrote, Patty Duke, political thriller, Psycho, Ridley Scott, Robert Altman, Sidley Lumet, Soviet Union, The Conversation, The Manchurian Candidate, The Miracle Worker, The Parallax View, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Leave a comment
Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor: Love and Thunder is a film as disjointed as its name. It’s not so much a film as a patchwork of ideas, tones, and narrative directions that ultimately don’t add up. It also gives us a Thor we don’t … Continue reading
Film stuff by Mark 