Sort of.
I’ve always dreamed of making a movie with Chevy Chase. And this morning, that dream came true.
Sort of.
My friend Mark was kind enough to bring me along to Chevy’s house, where I operated the boom on a video taping. So, technically, my dream came true. I’ll write more about it when the video is […]

I saw two films at the Tribeca film festival, and this was the first. It’s a historical epic from China based on a book that’s been popular over there for hundreds of years. There’s lots of action - some of it cool, some of it silly - and it was great to see Sammo Hung […]

This was one of the few films of 2007 that I really wanted to see in the theater but somehow missed. I really don’t know what to write about it. I liked it a lot, but part of it made me want to dislike it right after I started it. Why? It’s your typical indie […]

I knew this was going to be shitty. When I first saw the trailer, I knew I was going to be disappointed. When it was first announced even, I knew I wouldn’t like it. And when I popped it into the DVD player (or blu-ray, I guess) recently, I knew that I wasn’t going to […]

It was a bit of a stretch to see a whole town go along and pretend that Lars’ doll was a real person, but the charm of Lars, his brother and his sister-in-law doesn’t wear off. Lars turns into an asshole after a while, acting as if his doll was offended by certain words or […]

This was such a surprise. It’s a bit sad that good, old-fashioned, character-driven, family-oriented comedies - the ones we used to see in theaters all the time 15-20 years ago - have almost completely disappeared. Instead, we get quirky independent comedy dramas, silly goofball comedies, kids movies, big-budget TV show remakes, or one-note concept films. […]

I love dark, gritty cop dramas, but the genre might have run out of steam. There was a resurgence a few years ago with a number of stylish new films that didn’t shy away from violence and showed both good and bad cops. But after films like Traffic, Narc, Dark Blue and Training Day coming […]

The spaghetti western is one of my favorite sub-genres, and my favorite spaghetti westerns are the ones that have American stars. Back in the 60s and 70s, for James Coburn, Henry Fonda or Charles Bronson to go to Italy to headline a cheap Italian film (western, cop movie, horror film) must have been like Stallone, […]

A snore of a movie. The film consists of three stories. One features Meryl Streep as a journalist interviewing senator Tom Cruise in his office. It takes place almost entirely in the senator’s office. The other story focuses on professor Robert Redford who is meeting with one of his students. That story takes place almost […]

This is a Cannon sci-fi thriller that I had never heard much about… until now. I saw that it was on Universal HD, so I recorded it. It’s Cannon, how can I live a full life without having seen it? I was surprised how good the film looked. The effects must have cost a fortune, […]

Tony Kaye (American History X) goes on a bit too long (2 1/2 hours) in his (mostly) unbiased documentary about abortion. Kaye also puts too much focus on fundamentalist Pro-Life activism, which gave me the feeling that that side of the spectrum wasn’t represented very accurately. The documentary has plenty of disturbing aborted baby film […]

I got a kick out of Richard Shepard’s last flick, The Matador, and I’ve been looking forward to his latest, The Hunting Party, for a while. Sadly, it only had a limited release and went by unnoticed. It played at the Landmark Sunshine in my street, but with all the awards films coming out at […]

What happened to Rod Lurie? He started out with an interesting doomsday thriller in 1999 (Deterrence), followed it up with the terrific political thriller The Contender in 2000, but then struck out with the Robert Redford/James Gandolfini prison flick The Last Castle a year later. He didn’t make any more films until last year’s Resurrecting […]

A few years ago, I tried digging up a trailer for the movie Nothing Lasts Forever. I never found it and one day decided to make my own. Styled after 1930s movie trailers, and in most cases using the exact text (believe it or not), I created my own version of the trailer. I came […]

This is already making me drool. I can’t wait until it comes out this December. There will be a limited theatrical run in October and I won’t miss that, either. Five discs is an awful lot for one movie but this film is deserving of all the added value material.
Interestingly, I was reading some of […]

I’ve seen more movies lately so I made an update to the 2007 movie list. The link is to the left where you can access it at any time of the day. 11pm, 9pm, 3am, even at 2am. That’s the way computers work nowadays. You can also click here - > 2007 movie list.
I also […]

Man, is there nothing else going on in my life besides movies?
A while back I went to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens for a rare screening of Jacques Rivette’s long movie Out 1. This 1971 flick runs twelve-and-a-half hours and the screening I attended was only the 7th public projection of this […]

I’m watching this movie right now called Overlord. It’s a British war movie from the 70s that mixes stock footage from WWII with original footage. It kind of blows. Not recommended so far, but I can’t bring myself to stop it. I do like all the stock footage, although there are other places to watch […]