A commercial failure when it was released in 1971, Harold and Maude is in my opinion a fantastic inspiring movie that manages to do romance with out the cheese. It’s not a particularly compelling idea not to me, anyhow a 20-year-old man falls in love with an 80-year-old woman. Your natural instinct is one of […]
Broken Lizard is the comedy team that produced Super Troopers, a surprisingly hilarious, offbeat comedy. With maple chugging contests, and State Troopers saying ‘Meow’, it’s humour that you can’t explain, but is solid gold on the big screen. Their next movie, Club Dread, was considered ‘unwatchable’, but I still enjoyed it for the smoking hot
While I do like fast paced, edgy indie films, or breathtaking, water drip dramas, there will always be a special place in my cerebellum for Mary Poppins. My mother used to watch it with me when I was a little kid it was one of her favourite movies that and the Sound of Music and
Zombies are worse than vampires or ghosts, by far. Vampires are charming and have that fetish element to them plus they sleep during the day. Ghosts are easily busted by Ghostbusters. Zombies, on the other hand they’re the army ants of the supernatural world weak by themselves, but unstoppable in great numbers. The American fascination
Heidi is a s film adaptation of a tremendously famous series of children’s books from Switzerland. Ah, these old movies from the Goldern Era of Film Shirley Temple plays Heidi, a little orphaned girl sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Shirley Temple was a huge star in the 30s, known for her
I rented this movie last night because I saw that Ang Lee, director of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed and wrote this movie glorifying Chinese cuisine, linking it to romance and sensuality. It’s called Eat Drink Man Woman, or Yin Shi Nan Nu in Mandarin, and it was Lee’s first movie filmed
One of the most famous American westerns ever made, it catapulted Robert Redford into movie stardom and cemented Paul Newman as a leading man capable of complex roles. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is the ‘based on real life’ story of Butch Cassidy, famed train robber and outlaw. The movie follows Cassidy’s life loosely,
I finally got around to watching the newest Scorcese film, The Departed. This is weeks after the other Orble film freaks, Cinematrix and Movies and Life, reviewed it. Based on the infamous Hong Kong movie, Infernal Affairs, Scorcese replaced the Triads with the Irish gangs of South Boston, and injected his own stylish flair and
I saw this movie twice on the weekend, as strange as that may seem and even found it endlessly amusing the second time. A Prairie Home Companion is Robert Altman’s latest movie fans of Altman’s work will find that he’s at his tranquil best here, passing up an epic story to etch out an impressive
One of Woody Allen’s most loved films, Manhattan takes a picturesque black and white tour of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Filmed in 1979, the vintage look of the film make it feel like we’re jazz cats in the 20s, or beatniks in the 50s, sitting on a bench by the 59th
