Magic (as it is performed) is a hard sell for me; I’ve never loved either the illusions themselves nor the showmanship required to distract the audience from perceiving those illusions. It is difficult for me to appreciate such trickery and […]
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The Call (2013) ☆ ☆ ☆
Since winning her Oscar way back in 2001 beautiful Halle Berry has made her share of turkeys (Catwoman, Perfect Stranger, Gothika, Movie 43, Catwoman, etc.), but The Call is not one of them. The Call is surprisingly realistic, suspenseful and even thrilling. […]
Continue reading »No (2012) ☆ ☆ ☆
One of the five Best Foreign Language entries for the 2012 Oscars is this Chilean political film directed by Pablo Larrain. No is a historical reenactment, using actual footage from the time period, of the 1988 political campaign to unseat the […]
Continue reading »Emperor (2013) ☆ ☆ 1/2
When Hollywood tackles history sometimes the result is an uneasy mixture of what really happened and what might have happened. This is certainly the case with Emperor, which spotlights the dilemma facing General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) when he […]
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I’ve always liked submarine movies (and books, too); their tight, self-contained, claustrophobic, danger-filled environments invite hypertensive intensity and action, often with global consequences. Phantom is an intriguing addition to the genre, positing that in 1968 a Soviet submarine attempts a mission […]
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The following one hundred and fourteen posts are those that originally appeared in Filmbobbery from 2003 to 2009. They are in reverse chronological order from top to bottom, documenting the progression of the Movies Worth Rediscovering concept from the original clumsily-titled “Overlooked […]
Continue reading »Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Yet of all the movies I’ve ever seen the one I most wish would actually come true is the original version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). It isn’t Steven Spielberg’s best film (it may not be in […]
Continue reading »Jaws (1975) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Almost 35 years after first seeing Jaws (1975), I still don’t go boating or, God forbid, swimming, in any big body of water. The poster image should explain why. A backlash against Jaws has occurred in recent years as critics […]
Continue reading »The War of the Worlds (1953) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
The War of the Worlds (1953) is the first movie I can clearly remember ever seeing, on TV. I was about five, and a storm killed our power about halfway through the broadcast. I was sent to bed thinking the […]
Continue reading »Airport (1970) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
One film I’ve always felt has never received its due respect is Airport (1970), which is now best known as the first all-star disaster flick of the 1970s. That is true, but it’s much better than that. Nominated for ten […]
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