The Goods: Film Reviews
Take a sip every time Bruce Willis calls Justin Long “kid,” take 2 sips every time Bruce Willis is befuddled by technology or computer babble, take a shot every time a hacker has an intuitive, professionally designed interface, as if penetrating government networks had the user experience of Microsoft Office.
There’s a fine line between “carrying a movie” and “being completely wasted by a movie that you totally outclass,” and Jessica Rothe toes that line this entire musical as it bounces between bearable and dire.
When I was 21, I made a list of my 100 favorite movies and I put this at #93. Of course today, it would be nowhere near my Top 100.
Multiple choice quiz. Why did you like The Incredibles?
Many of the very early — like 1925 and before — films that have endured in the canon are epics.
I was recently watching some YouTube videos on Crash Course about film history with my three year old daughter.
The French Revolution turns out to be a very good match for DW Griffith.
This is the fourth DW Griffith film I’ve watched in my tour through film history, and the fourth starring Lillian Gish.
For the first hour or so of its 75 minutes, Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates is far more compelling as a historical artifact than as cinema.
DW Griffith, the premier American epic filmmaker of the 1910s, had his biggest financial stumble in the hugely ambitious, 3.5-hour Intolerance.