Here’s my review of the 1990 classic “Awakenings”, a medical drama of some sort, where a doctor attempts to find solutions for a serious sickness that has plagued patients for decades. Here.
Here are some of my thoughts regarding Attack of the Clones, a rather minor blockbuster Star Wars film that wasn’t that bad here.
One of the genuinely better romantic comedies from the last 15 years, As Good As It Gets eschews easy-going romance and charges the story with down-to-earth characters who are real and complex. Although the movie’s not heavy on plot, it makes every scene count and finishes on a tender, moving note.
Here’s one commentary here and the other here both discussing aspects of this movie.
Here’s my preview of the film Arrival here.
Was the film Arrival a one-hit wonder? I mean, as a piece of cinema, rather than a lasting work? I watched the film twice and on the second viewing I thought the film fizzled. It was less exciting and suspenseful. Arrival is a big budget science fiction film from 2016, it perhaps did not exceed… Read More Film Review: Film in 2016–“Arrival”–On Second Thoughts and First
Original Review Ever imagine a group of people worshipping God at the movies? It may have never happened, but The Apostle is so much like watching a Pentecostal church service it could be described as an inspirational ‘tape’. It’s brimming with the exuberant Pentecostalism of 1939 Texas and Louisiana.
Here is my commentary on Ant-Man. The commentary looks at the theme of the second chance here.
Apocalypse Now! is a 1979 Vietnam war film directed by Francis Ford Coppola (who directed the two Godfather films in 1972 and 1974) and came out with more well-received but controversial cinema with Apocalypse Now. Apocalypse Now! Is based on Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness, and other material. Orson Welles (who made Citizen Kane… Read More Film Review: Film in 1979–“Apocalypse Now!”, Surreal War Film
The original Alien is not everyone’s cup of tea but may be approved somewhere as a suspense masterpiece. Corporeal flesh courtesy of an ever-growing alien looking for its next meal is Ripley’s mission as she battles off this ever-growing predator, but to take it down the waste chute, as you would, if you could. But… Read More Film Review: Film in 1979–“Alien”, Superb Science Fiction Horror, with Reservation
Here’s my review of the promising At Eternity’s Gates, here.
Spiderman has been incarnated for modern audiences since 2002, but in the 1970s there were feature films about the webslinger, without none of the modernish gloss, but still relished by kids. The original modern trilogy (2002-2007) was followed by a reboot of two films (2012-2014) and a new series of films (since 2017) under the… Read More Film Review: Film in 2014–“The Amazing Spider-Man 2”, An Action Blockbuster with Conversational Skills
I don’t go along with evolution, but 2001 and 2010 does touch on the ‘meaning of life’ and all that kind of stuff–is there more? Here’s my commentary here.
I wrote two commentaries on the little-known film The 5th Wave, not because it deserved it, but because I needed to express two themes, I saw in it: “Desperate Survivors’ ‘Survival Hope in a Dying World’ If I was to go the letter of the law, there would be something I couldn’t go along with… Read More Film Commentaries: Film in 2016–“The 5th Wave”, It’s the End of the World, but Also Survival Against The Odds
Just finished reading The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works (Penguin Classics) and should post a review of it sometime. I am still reading or re-reading Leviticus, the third book of the Bible. Just started reading Tiger Adventure by Willard Price from 1979 which though given have never read but am in the throes of… Read More What I’m Reading–Mid-May 2024
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