Archive for April, 2008
The art form of the musical is not one I necessarily like. The musicals that came to screen in the early through mid 20th century seem quaint and a bit goofy. I have seen very few musicals over the last 20 years with “Dreamgirls” being the most recent (oh, yes…some Bollywood stuff too). I think [...]
This is the first movie I have seen by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. I was very impressed with a number of things and especially with one of its main themes (which I’ll get to in a bit). I might say it was entertaining but that would not be quite right. Some scenes run a [...]
Early spring weekend.
A suburban mystery;
With peanut butter.
If you like words, word games and crosswords, this documentary is for you.
Patrick Creadon (really a cinematographer) directs this movie which centers on the 28th annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, hosted every year in Stamford, Conn. Will Shortz, the editor of the New York Times crossword puzzles is the one who together the tournament. We [...]
Directed by Alex Gibney, narrated by Peter Coyote; the documentary based on the book of the same title by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind. I am not going into the story of Enron but it is the story of one of the greatest American business scandals of all time (to date).It’s a story of greed [...]
There are too many singer-songwriter tunes in this uneven film. Itâs story upon story within a story and it never really settles down or breaks open. Believe me, I really wanted it to settle down and let me sink my teeth into it (like good pastrami on rye w/ mustard and nice big garlic dill [...]
If you are familiar with The Simpsons on TV and if you can tolerate the completely irreverent humor of America’s most dysfunctional animated family, then you’ll like this one.Confession: I laughed out loud which I don’t tend to do at movies. This should tell you something about how strange I really am (I thought “Fargo” [...]
