Don't forget: Bob's your uncle

Title: Frenzy
Date Watched: 9/30/2013 - 10/2/2013
Original Ranking Out of 10: N/A
Revised Ranking Out of 10: 8

Synopsis: A serial killer frames an innocent man for murder.

The Good: One of Hitchcock's last movies, but still features some classic sequences including the potato truck scene.

The Bad: Way too long. ( Read more... )

Remember when I said this car was death proof? Well, that wasn't a lie. This car is 100% death proof. Only to get the benefit of it, honey, you really need to be sitting in my seat.

Title: Death Proof
Date Watched: 9/13/2013
Original Ranking Out of 10: N/A
Revised Ranking Out of 10: 9

Synopsis: A group of girlfriends on an evening out encounter a ( Read more... )

What a culture can't assimilate, it destroys.

Title: The Fury
Date Watched: 8/30/2013 - 8/31/2013
Original Ranking Out of 10: N/A
Revised Ranking Out of 10: 4

Synopsis: A man searches for his abducted child while a teenage girl learns to develop her psychic powers.

The Good: Amy Irving is supercute. Maybe I'm forgetting something, but I can't ( Read more... )

Now's not the time for fear. That comes later.

Title: The Dark Knight Rises
Date Watched: 8/18/2013
Original Ranking Out of 10: 4
Revised Ranking Out of 10: 6

Synopsis: In the final part of the Dark Knight trilogy, Batman faces off against a deadly mercenary bent on bringing anarchy to Gotham.

The Good: A lot of really clever bits and ( Read more... )

The 'D' is silent.

Title: Django Unchained
Date Watched: 8/17/2013
Original Ranking Out of 10: 9
Revised Ranking Out of 10: 9+

Synopsis: A bounty hunter and a former slave join forces to rescue the latter's wife from an evil Mississippi plantation.

The Good: Really nice slow build, especially for a Tarantino movie. Great dialogue and almost ( Read more... )

We're shooting Body Shots, here. Not Last Tango.

Title: Body Double
Date Watched: 8/16/2013
Original Ranking Out of 10: 8
Revised Ranking Out of 10: 8

Synopsis: A man housesits and, in the process of peeping on a neighbor, witnesses a gruesome murder.

The Good: Jesus Christ, Brian De Palma knows how to direct. The murder sequence is phenomenal ( Read more... )

Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming.

Title: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Date Watched: 8/16/2013
Original Ranking Out of 10: N/A
Revised Ranking Out of 10: 6

Synopsis: Ian Malcolm goes to a different island with dinosaurs and it's not too different from the last time.

The Good: More ( Read more... )

It's a UNIX system. I know this!

Title: Jurassic Park
Date Watched: 8/14/2013
Original Ranking Out of 10: N/A
Revised Ranking Out of 10: 8

Synopsis: Dinosaurs escape from their cages in a theme park and eat some of the visitors, but not most of the ones we like.

The Good: Revolutionary special effects and, once it starts moving, nearly non-stop ( Read more... )

You know, to a man with a heart as soft as mine, there's nothing sweeter than a touching scene.

Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Date Watched: 8/11/2013
Original Ranking Out of 10: N/A
Revised Ranking Out of 10: 7

Synopsis: While vacationing in Switzerland, a couple becomes involved in an assassination plot after witnessing a murder and having ( Read more... )

Nice Valley. I think I'll keep it.

Title: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Date Watched: 7/27/2013
Original Ranking Out of 10: N/A
Revised Ranking Out of 10: 8

Synopsis: Something about a girl who can fly and a group of people who come into the valley and some sort of giant battle. I think.

The Good: Beautiful Miyazaki animation, made with ( Read more... )