Archive for March, 2008
The Sun is dying and a winter that will stick to your ribs is settling upon the Earth. A spaceship named “Icarus 1″ is sent on a mission to drop a nuclear device into the sun and “re-ignite” it. The “Icarus 1″ mission failed and to name a ship anything Icarus anything seems like trouble [...]
Detective John McClane (BRUCE WILLIS) is back in move #4 of the highly successful “Die Hard” series, “Live Free and Die Hard.” McClane is back on New York’s and is now a senior detective. he takes on cyber terrorists who want to shut down the entire east coast infrastructure for lots of money. Former NSA [...]
“Pan’s Labyrinth” is one of the best fantasy films I have ever seen, even with its ties directly to violence which is the reality of war. You see fauns and fairies and also an inhuman sadist in the uniform of Franco’s fascists. Only the 11-year-old heroine (IVANA BAQUERO) sees these creatures but that doesn’t mean [...]
I have no idea why I waited all these years to see this movie. Directed, produced and written by the Coen brothers and released in 1991, it is a writer’s movie and done only the way the Coen brothers do a movie.
Barton Fink (JOHN TURTURRO) is the story of a man who wants to sell [...]
So here’s Road Warrior meets The Wizard of Oz meets Raising Arizona meets the Cleavers meets someone’s trying-to-be-cult-classic-too-artsy-for-you inside joke or “Wouldn’t it be cool if…” brainstorm. I think it was a great idea and the camera work was pretty good but I had a hard time following the dialog (which was just plain weird).
Directed [...]
I got a phone call last night from my wife who was visiting some friends. She stayed overnight with them and she called to say good night and invite me to a get-together to which she was invited by our friends. This get-together was to be at our friend’s home the next evening. Since it [...]
