It has become somehow fashionable lately to make all-star comedy-dramas centered around events (New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day) and now that trend has usurped a wedding. The Big Wedding, to be exact. Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, Amanda […]
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Barbara (2012) ☆ ☆ ☆
One of the cool things about internationally-made movies is that their makers don’t feel the need to have to explain every little thing in them. Hollywood movies too often over-explain, mostly through dialogue, perhaps because the movie-going public is considered […]
Continue reading »Oblivion (2013) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Every once in a while comes a movie that makes me love the format all over again, and suddenly excited to see even more. Such a movie is Oblivion. I’ve loved sci-fi films forever, and am always on the lookout […]
Continue reading »The Croods (2013) ☆ ☆ ☆
The animated cave-people comedy The Croods is a fun, enjoyable, visually intriguing movie that was better than I figured it to be. Because of its scope — depicting the very abrupt, incredibly destructive tectonic plate shifts changing the prehistoric world — […]
Continue reading »G. I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) ☆ 1/2, and G. I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) ☆ ☆
This is my first dual-movie review in this format. I had not seen the first G. I. Joe film, which was made in 2009, because I thought its preview looked ridiculous. But once I decided to see its sequel this week, […]
Continue reading »Lore (2012) ☆ ☆
This German – Australian co-production regarding a German family trying to survive the end of World War II takes a different approach to its subject, telling the story from the kids’ perspective as they walk away from their former, comfortable […]
Continue reading »Oz The Great and Powerful (2013) ☆ ☆
Is it too soon for a prequel to the classic 1939 musical fantasy The Wizard of Oz? It’s only been seventy-four years! Although technically the film is not related to the 1939 classic (different studios, fights over rights), in all […]
Continue reading »The Host (2013) ☆ ☆ ☆
This surprisingly old-fashioned (and slowly paced) science-fiction drama has a lot of heart, even if it is aimed at a teenage and post-teenage audience (it has a heavy emphasis on kissing). Much of its success has to do with two […]
Continue reading »The Print Edition Archive
Filmbobbery began in 1999 as a desire to write about movies and celebrate the Academy Awards each year. For the previous few years I had produced programs predicting the Oscars, and then recapping the results afterward. Finally I decided that […]
Continue reading »Volume 10 Issue 4 (Spring, 2009) $10
This fortieth, final and penultimate issue is printed on white paper and is 48 pages in length. It announces the end of the publication and thanks all the contributors (and regular subscribers) who made it a reality. The Movies Worth […]
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