Category: Movies
Best of 2009: Movies
Real bloggers make year-end lists because they get paid per post. I’m doing it because I like to talk.
Empty Shells
Avatar is fine for what it is, but watching it just made me kind of sad and disillusioned about the creative process.
CSI: Victorian London
Evidently I saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie tonight. I remember the color gray and some explosions.
Helveticus Indiefilmicus
Fantastic Mr. Fox is one cuss of a good movie, as long as you like Wes Anderson.
Counting the Beams
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.
It Makes Me Wonder
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.)
Arrougant Basterds
Inglourious Basterds really is a revenge movie: not for Jews, but for the long-oppressed defenders of Quentin Tarantino. Minor spoilers for the movie.
The Shrimpire Strikes Back
Trying to decide if District 9 is a message movie with explosions, or an explosion movie with a message. Either way, we all win.
Very Red Necks
The only good thing I have to say about Near Dark is that at least the vampires don’t sparkle. Bonus: a rant about Transformers 2.
Oh, dag-dag, Mark!
So after hearing and reading about it from all over, and then in preparation for the RiffTrax release, I finally bought and watched The Room. (In case you haven’t heard of the movie, it’s a comically inept melodrama-turned-comedy that developed a cult following after being relentlessly promoted in the LA area. Imagine this scene repeated…
Searching for Long-Range Comms
Moon is a 1970s psychological sci-fi movie artfully translated into 2009.