Category: Movies

The 1977 Japanese horror comedy House is one of the most amazing movies I have ever seen.

I was surprised, but How To Train Your Dragon is a fantastic movie.

A Serious Man is a brilliant movie, one of the Coen Brothers’ best.

The new Alice in Wonderland is perfectly fine as 3D spectacle, but it’s missing most of its muchness

Real bloggers make year-end lists because they get paid per post. I’m doing it because I like to talk.

Avatar is fine for what it is, but watching it just made me kind of sad and disillusioned about the creative process.

Evidently I saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie tonight. I remember the color gray and some explosions.

Fantastic Mr. Fox is one cuss of a good movie, as long as you like Wes Anderson.

I Know Where I’m Going is a love story between a man and a woman, a director and a country, and me and the movies of Powell and Pressburger.

Rediscovering Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s amazing WWII romantic propaganda fantasy A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven in the U.S.)

Inglourious Basterds really is a revenge movie: not for Jews, but for the long-oppressed defenders of Quentin Tarantino. Minor spoilers for the movie.

Trying to decide if District 9 is a message movie with explosions, or an explosion movie with a message. Either way, we all win.