I’m starting to think I just don’t get the Judd Apatow school of comedy. Apatow and his various collaborators and actors are funny enough and The 40 Year Old Virgin is still one of the best comedies of recent years but each successive film related to his burgeoning little dick’n’fart humor empire tries harder than [...]
Tags: 52 movies, Judd Apatow, Superbad
Almost Famous @ Amazon “We are uncool.” Untitled, the director’s cut of Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous, is one of those movies that just hit me in the gut every time I watch it. The thinly veiled autobiographical story of Crowe’s own youth shows a life that I think a lot of us would have loved [...]
Tags: Almost Famous, Billy Crudup, Cameron Crowe, Kate Hudson, Patrick Fugit
Note: This is the 14th installment of 52 Movies, a year long journey through movies on this site. Yes, it’s horribly behind and I have no idea exactly how it’s going to catch up right now. For other installments in this series, click here. “I believe in Harvey Dent.” We’ve grown used to a Batman [...]
Tags: Batman, Batman Begins, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Heath Ledger, Joke, The Dark Knight
Musing about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull earlier, I wondered if I was going to get another Raiders of the Lost Arc, a movie I love, or a Last Crusade, one I merely enjoy. Well, I guess the answer is that I’m going to prefer to remember the Indiana Jones movies [...]
I’m going to cheat a bit this week. When I first started this little year-long project, my initial plan was to watch 52 movies and then write about them. But before Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull comes out, I wanted to write a bit about the first three movies, which I’ve [...]
Tags: 52 movies, Add new tag, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Raiders of the Lost Arc, Steven Spielberg
Welcome to the 21st century cartoon. Only know it’s a semi-live action/adventure movie.Let’s set up why this may be the perfect movie for me.Whenever I talk about the Wachowski brothers (or siblings or whatever they are now,) I always feel the need to throw up the preface that I actually like all three Matrix movies. [...]
Tags: Speed Racer
(note: Yes, I’m far behind on these movie posts but May looks to be a month to catch up. Look for at least weekly movie talk beginning with this one. Hopefully I’ll even have a second one up this week.)“I’m not the hero type… Clearly.”Let’s talk a bit about what makes a good comic book [...]
During the course of The Philadelphia Story, Tracy Lords (Katherine Hepburn) is given many titles and roles. First off, there’s her own last name- “Lords” and everything that it implies. She’s also called a “goddess,” “Justice with her shiny sword,” and even “virgin goddess.” Tracy has set up this image of herself that other people [...]
“This is the story of The Losers.” That’s what a lost soldier on a lost island carves into a cave wall, trying to leave behind some remembrance that he and his team were ever there. In Darwyn Cooke’s DC miniseries The New Frontier, his story opens with The Losers, a ragtag band of World War [...]
Tags: Darwyn Cooke, DC Comics, The New Frontier
It’s too easy to miss what’s right in front of your eyes. Wilson had Jenny, his daughter, and she was right there but he missed it. Actually he saw and remembers it all but “in increments” he tells Elaine. Those increments are the times during Jenny’s childhood that he wasn’t in jail. But she was [...]