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Tim Burton As Artist
I have always enjoyed Tim Burton’s movies — and I am looking forward with anticipation to his “Alice” — but not in any fanatical way: they often have a conceptual similarity about them that detracts...
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A Serious Masterpiece
Tonight we went to see the Coen Brothers’ latest movie, “A Serious Man“. This is movie-making as fine art. Neither Hitchcock nor Fellini nor Welles could have done better. And none of them could...
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What’s The Big Deal With 3-D?
There is an interesting piece in the New York Times today about the campaigns being prepared by television manufacturers to sell us on the expensive idea of 3-D on TV. Samsung alone will spend $100...
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R.I.P. x Three
The last few days have been hard on the movie industry. First we lost the esteemed editor Sally Menke who has cut all of Quentin Tarantino’s movies since “Reservoir Dogs“. She was only 56 and seems...
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The Lingering Death of Video Stores
The video rental store — one or more of which has probably been a fixture in your main street — is coming to the end of its relatively short life; after their emergence in the early 1970s, it is hard...
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Deathly Hallows At The Rio
We went to the movies yesterday afternoon, to see the latest Harry Potter film. I am not a big Potter fan; I’ve seen a few of the films and read none of the books. But the Boss has read them all and...
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The Lyubov Orlova
Some of you may have been following the tribulations of a derelict Russian ship that has been bouncing around the Maritimes this last week. Stories are here and here and here. However, I bet most...
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Slumdog Millionaire — At Last!
When it was first released, I watched all the “Slumdog Millionaire” trailers, saw a number of talk show appearances by Danny Boyle and Dev Patel, thought I had read reviews. None of this publicity...
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The Bleak Leading The Bleak
We decided to watch two middling-recent movies: “Sweeney Todd” and “There Will Be Blood“. Both are without pity, without love, bleak and without any corner to hide from the hideousness of some human...
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