What is the best age to watch E.T.? The answer clearly is any age.
One of my best friends in this world, who is a fellow movie/Spielberg lover like me, once told me in a random conversation of ours that E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial did not "do all that much" for him and I felt like I'd been run over by a truck several times over. Granted, I should not have taken a friend's lukewarm reception to one movie so personally,…
"Talk to me Goose."
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"Talk to me dad."
I didn't really believe cinema was back until Tom Cruise donned the helmet and the jacket once more, until that detuned tubular bell gonged and that guitar riff rose up to heaven, until I heard that Kenny Loggins classic... Well, The Last Great Movie Star has saved Cinema once again.
There isn't an ounce of this thirty six years in the making sequel that isn't photocopied straight from the DNA of…
I'm not sure I know how to process a direct sequel within the Millennium Era, but here we are...
A fascinatingly militant aesthetic in its approach for a good bit of this film and unreservedly weird for its full 91 minutes, Tokyo S.O.S. still ends up serving as something of an homage to the much better (and even weirder) Mothra vs Godzilla from 1964, despite themes of nature vs technology, the exploitation of natural resources at will and what exactly…
"Attention Viewers! This film is an experiment in cinematic communication of real events without the help of intertitles, without the help of a story, without the help of theatre..."
It has been 93 years since Dziga Vertov gave the film world and the world at large, Человек с кино-аппаратом (Man With a Movie Camera). Though the USSR may have long since evaporated from the world's geographical maps, this film that was made as a way to show the ideal of…
Cringe - Verb
\ ˈkrinj \
cringed; cringing
intransitive verb
1: To shrink back, bend, or crouch, especially in fear, pain, or servility; cower
She cringed in a corner and started praying after having watched Amazon's new iteration of Cinderella.
2: To feel very embarrassed or awkward; react with discomfort
Some of us cringed at the speaker’s tactless comments regarding his admiration for Amazon's Cinderella.
3: Cinderella (2021)
The 2021 adaptation of the classic fairy tale directed by Kay Cannon…
The greatest trick Kevin Spacey ever pulled was convincing the world he was a decent human being.
