Saturday, September 5, 2015
First Lines: Michael Innes - Hamlet, Revenge!
When you a spend a summer holiday in the Horton country you must not fail to make the ascent of Horton Hill.
Friday, September 4, 2015
Hollow Triumph (1948)
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, a criminal takes a new identity, with ironic results.
An unnecessarily contrived plot mars an otherwise OK thriller with a good cast and some Noir elements.
Halliwell (no star): "Cheap suspense thriller with no suspense and no surprises."
Lektionen in Finsternis (1992)
Less a documentary, but rather a dark visual poem ambiguously celebrating and dreading the doom man brings to his own planet with morbidly beautiful images.
Thursday, September 3, 2015
First Lines: Dorothy L. Sayers - Strong Poison
There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
The Movies I Watched in August
A Boy and His Dog 1975 6
Bang! Bang! You're Dead! 1966 5
Black Angel 1946 6
Desert Fury 1947 7
Frankenstein 1931 10
Friendly Persuasion 1956 7
Limitless 2011 6
Lockout 2012 4
Paranoia 2013 4
Safe Haven 2013 5
Sinister 2012 6
The AristoCats 1970 7
The Dark Mirror 1946 7
The Evil Dead 1981 8
The General Died at Dawn 1936 6
The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 10
The Last House on the Left 1972 6
The Man Who Saved the World 2014 Documentary 7
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 7
The Young One 1960 8
Woodstock 1970 Documentary 8
You and Me 1938 Feature 6
Bang! Bang! You're Dead! 1966 5
Black Angel 1946 6
Desert Fury 1947 7
Frankenstein 1931 10
Friendly Persuasion 1956 7
Limitless 2011 6
Lockout 2012 4
Paranoia 2013 4
Safe Haven 2013 5
Sinister 2012 6
The AristoCats 1970 7
The Dark Mirror 1946 7
The Evil Dead 1981 8
The General Died at Dawn 1936 6
The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 10
The Last House on the Left 1972 6
The Man Who Saved the World 2014 Documentary 7
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 7
The Young One 1960 8
Woodstock 1970 Documentary 8
You and Me 1938 Feature 6
Sinister (2012)
A washed-up true-crime writer finds a box of super 8 home movies that suggest the murder he is currently researching is the work of a serial killer whose work dates back to the 1960s.
Although this horror movie does manage to create an atmosphere of dread and does find some strong (and disturbing) images plus a downbeat ending, it's all old hat adding nothing new to the genre.
Maltin**: "A horror film that's not exactly in the found-footage genre but is about found footage, which, of course, we see. Good-looking, well-produced movie (on a budget) - but based on a complicated, unlikely mythology - wearily plods its way to the expected ending."
