Seth MacFarlane is a talented satirist who loves to riff on traditional entertainment elements. That’s fine, but he does so with the perspective of a young teenage boy who thinks profanity and scatological humor represent the highest order of humor. […]
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Island of Lost Souls (1932) ☆ ☆ ☆
Our ninth classic of 2014 is an oldie — the first filmed version of H. G. Wells’ 1896 trenchant tale The Island of Dr. Moreau, which Paramount Pictures then retitled Island of Lost Souls when they produced it in 1932. Universal had opened […]
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by Barb Lentz The five movies Bob provided for me from which to choose were these: Cross Creek (1983) The 400 Blows (1959) Island of Lost Souls (1932) The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Sunshine Boys (1975) I chose […]
Continue reading »X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) ☆ ☆ ☆
The X-Men series of films seem to be aspiring to ever greater heights as they progress, rewriting history in the creation of cinematic Marvel mythology. The most recent one re-imagined the Cuban Missile Crisis, while this one explains the assassination of JFK and involves […]
Continue reading »Godzilla (2014) ☆ ☆ ☆
Yes, this is a somewhat different Godzilla than was featured in more than twenty Japanese movies from Toho Studios. Yet much is the same in terms of the Big Guy’s character (especially in the later films) and even the idea […]
Continue reading »The Other Woman (2014) ☆ ☆
I really wanted to like The Other Woman because so few comedies, or any movies for that matter, establish strong female characters and allow them to be as strong and wild as most male movie characters. Lately, though, thanks to gross-out […]
Continue reading »Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) ☆ ☆ ☆
Comic book superhero movies aren’t really my thing, and yet I’ve enjoyed several of them lately from Marvel. This is the second go-round (not counting The Avengers) of Steve Rogers, better known as Captain America (Chris Evans), the World War […]
Continue reading »The Railway Man (2013) ☆ ☆ ☆
Just receiving its theatrical release now is a character study / question of morality film based on a true story begun in World War II. A British engineer (Jeremy Irvine) is among several taken prisoner in Singapore by the Japanese. […]
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Each Earth Day Walt Disney studios releases a live-action nature film, and I look forward to seeing them. They always feature amazing photography and usually offer remarkable glimpses into areas on our planet which most of us will never explore […]
Continue reading »Transcendence (2014) ☆ ☆
I love great science-fiction movies; heck, I love good ones and bad ones, too. What I don’t love are dull pseudo-scientific treatises on philosophy and morality which leave logic stranded somewhere in the desert near Brightwood. That’s where the widow […]
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