I’m divided when it comes to big popcorn movies. In a way, I’m saddened by how Hollywood denaturalizes the art of cinema with shallow, predictable, undaring movies fueled by easy gags and special FX. That…
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Why Violence Must Be Used To Kill Bill
My name is Rob Carr. I attend a small college in Manchester, NH where I just completed my first course in the art of film. Attached below is my “thesis” for this class. To make…
Dreamcatcher
It starts out decently enough, first with a nifty titles sequence led by James Newton Howard’s atmospheric score then with quick but effective introductions of the main characters: mind-reading shrink Henry (Thomas Jane), mind-reading teacher…
Dreamgirls
On December 14, 1959, Berry Gordy, Jr. founds the Motown record label in his hometown of Detroit at the encouragement of songwriter Smokey Robinson. Through much hustling, scheming and plain good businessmanship, he not only…
The Tuxedo
Jackie Chan’s American movies are nowhere near as exhilarating as his Hong Kong work, but the man possesses so much charm and physical prowess that he manages to breathe some life into the most tired…
2016 log (8)
(1 Aug) Guardians of the Galaxy (2014, James Gunn)92 [ I first saw the year’s most popular movie at an early private screening and loved it then, but it was when I saw it again…
Disaster/Masterpiece: Freddy Got Fingered
It’s been advanced that insanity and genius are two sides of a same reality, two somehow intertwined extremes. Tom Green’s oeuvre is a good example of that. From his original Canadian show to its reinvented…
