Posts tagged movies

The Artist begins with an intertexual nod to our hero’s predicament. We see a silent film shown in a grand movie house. The scene unfolds as …

It took me a couple of days to be able to write about this movie by Agnieszka Holland, which, as many Holocaust movies tend to …

Everyone knows about Eat, Andy Warhol’s short film focussing on one man’s slow ingestion of a singular mushroom. People laugh at it. Hell, I laughed too. …

As the Oscar approaches, I am of course devouring one best picture nominee after the other, so I can be good and ready come February …

The Woman In Black is a lovely, surprisingly effective and intelligent ghost movie starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter to you), Ciaran Hinds and the formidable Janet …

Baños de pureza is a phrase in Spanish that means “baths of purity” and is used to denote someone who likes to slather themselves in holiness. …

Wrong man for the job. Had this movie been directed by Steven Spielberg, it would have been much more fun, mischievous and magical. As directed …

My To Watch list keeps getting longer and longer. And I can justify solitary trips to the cinema and spending hours in bed watching films …

Good, dirty fun. George Clooney is a much better director than Clint Eastwood, but he gets no respect. I don’t get it. He makes small, …

There is a scene towards the beginning of this misconceived borefest that encapsulates the monster of acting that is Meryl Streep. There is no other …