I feel an obligation, due to my 80s mediawhore upbringing, to go to see Miami Vice and perhaps I will overcome my dislike of both Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. My heart, though, will always belong to the real Crockett & Tubbs, Don Johnson and what’s his name.
Fell in love with Nortec Collective this morning
Have you seen The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou lately? No, really. You have to see it. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I’m going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and [...]
I had only seen Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday, a movie I could watch 100 times over, and thus had not seen the full range of his abilities. The adaptation of the book was incredibly tolerable given the requirement of using child actors, the issues at hand, and the time period in which the film [...]
Interspersed with the AFI films, we’ve been watching some documentary films. The first was Paris Is Burning and the second Devil’s Playground. Of wildly different subcultures, the 2 films were stunningly similar in some ways. The ethnic minority gay community of New York at their balls and the Amish teenagers on rumspringa explore the meaning [...]
Why did no one tell me how fabulous Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert were in this film? A fantastic little love story with witty dialogue that hasn’t gone stale much over the years. Winner of multiple Oscars and a nice reminder that not all old movies suck.
The clock is ticking as Gary Cooper tries very hard to pretend he is not at all too old to be racing around town, fending off bad guys, and marrying Grace Kelly. Grace Kelly is trying very hard to pretend she is not the slightest bit angry that he’d carried on with the town’s very [...]
Performance artist and new screenwriter Miranda July’s directorial debut is full of the incredibly awkward moments that I should sit through, but can’t make myself. From the awkward parting conversation between a divorcing couple to the awkward conversation between an apartment complex dweller and 2 teenage girls to the awkward conversation the divorcing couple’s kids [...]
