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Savages (2012)
"Savages" is based on the wildly popular novel of the same name by Don Winslow, with a script co-collaborated between Stone, Winslow and Shane Salerno, the film is rapid fire tongues and razor wire wit...
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Female Directors Redux
Reblogged from Above the Line: Female Directors Redux - Women in Film in Hollywood and beyond After reviewing my original list "Female Directors - Above and Beyond a Call to Duty" and discussing female...
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I Melt With You (2011)
“I Melt With You” feels like the mid-life rights of passage you've heard about or are living, the runway that many men land and take off from. Gathered for many drinks with the best friends of their...
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This filmic is a multi-layered visual experience that takes place not in the dream-world but along the road that surrounds it. Continue reading →
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Argo (2012)
So "Argo" should be on your list of movies to watch if you've missed it up to now. Be advised that the thrills come in bite-fulls and the story is much more about an ensemble cast than any one...
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Django Unchained (2012)
"Django" ends up being textbook Tarantino theatrics, hardly more than his usual penchant for bedraggled morality tales, the sort of bop-prosody that fans soak up in cotton ball doses while others take...
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Filmmaker and Film Critic makes Movie Blogger Efforts
Writing about movies is about as close to making them as I can get right now and I think it puts me in a unique position to share my thoughts as a bridge for others to fall in love with the how as much...
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Why Write About The Movies We Hate
Apparently I'm not alone. We hate our movies and love them for all sorts of reasons. People hate theaters and theater people, they hate other movie goers and especially critics; that goes for bloggers...
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Deep Blue Sea (1999)
For all the shark movies in all the deep sea voyages in the world, the sweet hereafter in "Deep Blue Sea" is living it up in the moment and being OK with forgetting it by morning. Send picky for a walk...
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Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Oliver Stone’s films live and breathe in the aether of happenstance and catastrophe, hand-wrung spaghetti noodles on the wall of Americana in Technicolor pasticcio, washed in controversy and teeming...
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Game of Thrones
Prepare yourself for smart and articulate tones, a broad and artful universe taken masterfully from an adaptation that respectfully brings the source material to the screen. Faithful to followers and...
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Stand Up for Pain in the Oblivion of Pines
I watch so many movies I often get swept up in the effort to write about all of them in an effective and coherent way. Monday to Wednesday and I'm already behind, by Friday I'll be right back here...
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Twixt (2011)
“Twixt” is about dead-end roads and the distracted ambition of the travelers we find there in a makeshift world about middle grounds between dreams and the indecision of lost souls. We are invitees to...
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Concussion (2013)
Writer-Director Stacie Passon’s 2013 film “Concussion” masterfully crafts the complexity of inward glances to produce a quality of deafening silence that fills the screen with the unconveyable voracity...
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Gravity (2013)
Despite the overwhelming positivism, both in reviews and ratings and award show gold, "Gravity" suffers from the same nausea ad infinitum that often relegates it to little more than a snappily dressed...
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Movie Review Blogging is about Momentum (2014)
Why do we watch films at all if not to escape, sometimes gingerly, almost all together brazenly into places familiar and not-so familiar to our own for minutes if not hours at a time of peaceful...
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Joan Rivers (2010) A Piece Of Work
Originally posted on Above the Line:Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work is part documentary part reality television turned in on itself as if to capture both the viewer and the subject in the quasi space that...
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