This weekend's review: Long-Term Relationship.

I’ll be the first to admit that I stumble across odd movies sometimes, and will generally give them a try because of said oddness. In this case, the movie in question is Long-Term Relationship, an LGBT-centric movie, and since that’s a genre I haven’t explored before, I decided to take a chance. The ( Read more... )

Today's review: Town Without Pity

Based on the summary of Town Without Pity that accompanied the movie on Amazon (“Kirk Douglas gives a stirring portrayal in this honest and gripping drama about a sleepy, occupied German town suddenly shocked awake by the brutal actions of four American soldiers”), I somehow got it into my head that it was a movie ( Read more... )

This weekend's review: the 1998 version of Rear Window.

I was actually recommended this version of Rear Window by one of my fellow movie lovers here on Livejournal, though it took me several years to get around to tracking it down and watching it. I was particularly interested in the casting choice of the lead, given what I knew about him and what ( Read more... )

Today's review is technically a two-in-one: Fritz Lang's Nibelungen movies.

We return to Fritz Lang again, with a very different set of films. Unlike Dr. Mabuse, the movie is set in the past, telling a story out of Nordic mythology that was dedicated to the German people. While Lang was unable to bring the slanted shadows of German Expressionism ( Read more... )

This weekend's review: Strange Interlude.

I was kind of recommended this movie by klia back in 2013, wherein they pitched it as an experimental older movie that hadn’t aged well but was still watchable in a “so bad it’s good” way. For better or for worse, I had forgotten that conversation by the time I actually got around to watching it all these ( Read more... )

And now we return to business as usual with today's review; From Time to Time.

I was sold on the idea of From Time To Time when cinematixyz here on Livejournal mentioned that it involved the 1700’s and a captain in the British Royal Navy, though of course the rest of the plot sounded interesting too. But I was busy with other things and forgot about the ( Read more... )

As usual, I start the new year by looking back at all the movies I reviewed last year, complete with some ranking lists. So let's get right to it!

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The last review of 2019 (and the decade): Sherlock Jr.

I hadn’t actually intended to watch Sherlock Jr.-not out of any aversion, but because I had been recommended Our Hospitality and figured I’d see how I felt about it before deciding whether or not to watch any more of Buster Keaton’s work. However, it wound up being bundled with the copy of Our ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to my readers! While I don't have any Christmas-specific movies in honor of the day, I did the next best thing and picked a movie that has a somewhat similar vibe of giving and being kind to your fellow man. So with that in mind, here's my review of The Amazing AdventureBefore I learned that the name of this movie was ( Read more... )

This weekend's review: The 1982 version of Ivanhoe.

While the 1952 version of the Ivanhoe story left me cold, I was willing to give the 1982 version a look both to give the story another chance and because James Mason was in it. And I will say that this version had a very different feel, so I didn't feel as if I watched the same thing twice. ( Read more... )