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The Last Samurai is a sweeping epic in every sense of the film. It has beautiful, carefully filmed exotic locales, a tragic hero, ornate costumes, long battle scenes, and even long contemplative pauses between battles. Like most Oscar hopefuls released late in the year it is more serious about its characters and its actions and [Read More …] 
There are many science fiction movies that require you to check reality at the door and buy into the truths that it presents. This proposes a difficulty especially for films that branch from our reality in only a small way. Often times a small step is just as difficult, if not more difficult, as a [Read More …] 
I have put off writing about The Philadelphia Story until now to gain some perspective on writing reviews because this is one of my all-time favorite movies and I don’t know that I can do it justice in reviewing it. So here goes. The Philadelphia Story was adapted by Donald Ogden Stewart from the original [Read More …] 
I just watched Casablanca, again, and I am reminded of what a great and timeless movie it is. I remember it was one of the first movies I ever watched in black and white. The first time I saw it I was confused, without color I had difficulty telling the characters apart. The second time [Read More …] 
The Lion in Winter is an amazing movie full of sharp wicked performances and even sharper dialogue. Where else would a queen rail at her sons ‘Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife. We all have knives! It’s 1183 and we’re all barbarians.’ This gem of a film stars Peter O’Toole [Read More …] |
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