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Category Archives: Film
So shines a good deed in a weary world…
According to Peter Ostrum, who played young Charlie Bucket in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), opposite the late Gene Wilder, the Grand Entrance scene was improvised by Wilder. The kids behind the fence had no idea he would … Continue reading
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RIP: Robin Hardy
Robin Hardy, who directed the cult horror film The Wicker Man (1973) has died at the age of 86.
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RIP: Michael Herr
From The Guardian: Michael Herr, the American writer and war correspondent famous for writing Dispatches, described as “the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time” by John le Carré, has died aged 76. Born … Continue reading
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Blood Father (2016)
Through films like The Passion, Apocalypto, and Get the Gringo, Mel Gibson has been ahead of the curve in capturing the zeitgeist of sublimated white identity. It’s nice to see him finally dealing with his aging. He looks weathered and … Continue reading
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Charles Coburn
I recently watched three excellent movies with the extremely funny character actor Charles Coburn: The More the Merrier (1943), for which Coburn received the Best Supporting Actor Oscar; Howard Hawks’ funny Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), where Coburn plays a South … Continue reading
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
This past weekend, I stumbled across this film playing, which I had always written off as a late night, cheese-o-rama, gross-out horror film, but while dated, is surprisingly good as one of the first ‘young-carefree-couples-get-stalked-by-insane-murderer’ films, later turned into the … Continue reading
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Of Tangerines & Danish Girls
From Variety, an embodiment of the Culture Wars circa 2016: Caitlyn Jenner showed her support for Magnolia’s “Tangerine” and star Mya Taylor in the first-ever Oscar campaign for trans actresses… Taylor has already won a Gotham Award for breakthrough actor/actress. … Continue reading
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Anomalisa (2015)
Written and co-directed by Charlie Kaufman, Anomalisa is a stop-motion play on the horrifying banality of existence. Overall, I don’t think the film garners it’s hype and 90+ RT rating, and I generally agree with David Edelstein, who writes: [T]he … Continue reading
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Mini-Reviews: Movies from 2015
With Awards Season just around the corner, here are my mini-reviews of some of the leading films for 2015: Black Mass (2015): As an A-list actor, I’ve never found Johnny Depp to have much range. He is pretty damned good, … Continue reading
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Star Wars as Postmodern Masterpiece
Slate is usually shiite. But this piece (“Star Wars Is a Postmodern Masterpiece“), in terms of tracing key influences on Lucas’ vision for Star Wars, nails it. Hyperlink-wise, it’s obvious Wickman worked very hard on this piece. Well done.