I love Tim Burton, despite the fact that I all too often find watching his movies to be just like turning up at the most sumptuous banquet imaginable only to come away hungry. Big Fish is my favorite Tim Burton movie (that I know of), because it is the only one (that I know of) where the story fully inhabits and lives up to its own spectacle. ( Read more... )

the papa Viking tells his son, the scrawny kid Viking, presenting him with his very first horned Viking helmet. 'It was half of her breastplate ( Read more... )

All the movies I've seen since the last time I wrote about movies I'd seen. Unless you count last night, when I wrote about these same movies, and lj erased it. Bleh.

(Cuts for moderate spoilers. Where possible, I try to spoil with a light hand, but I find it impossible to be entirely vague).

( Julie and Julia )

Aren't August and September supposed to be the cinematic elephant graveyard? Where movies go to die? Because suddenly all the movies I've been waiting for all summer long are coming out all at once, to the point that I bought tickets to two movies in a row the other afternoon, just so that I could be sure of seeing both before either went out of ( Read more... )

I'm kind of a sucker for Georgian costume*, and lately I've been noticing icons and picspams from a film called The Abduction Club. Big skirts, little waists, drippy lace sleeves, drippy blonde curls. It looked pretty from a distance. But with so many costume drama fiends for friends, I had a hard time imagining that, were the movie really all ( Read more... )

I know it's totally the middle of the night, and I've posted about a jillion things already, but I can't sleep and Ebert has published his early review of Transformers - which I would probably already have seen at midnight (just, as a teacher of mine used to say, to be perverse), were it not for the fact that tonight's show was completely sold out ( Read more... )

Every now and then, a person just wants to see a stupid movie.* If that person is me.

It's the reason I will probably go see Transformers 2, like, the minute it comes out. The trailer shows Shia Labeouf - or 'Shee-ah LaBeowulf,' as a friend of mine who shall remain nameless used to say - bellowing all Luke Skywalker-esque in fear for the life of ( Read more... )

One pleasant side effect of last summer's Edward Nortonfest has turned out to be knowing that Janelle will be unlikely to think it weird when I call her up in the middle of the night and say, hey, do you want to go see the latest Edward Norton film - like, right now? (Or after running errands together at Target, as the case may be.  I love the ( Read more... )

Livejournal wants to know: If I'm on a plane that's going to crash and I have time to make exactly one phone call, who do I call and why?

First choice:  Uh, Superman.  Obviously.

Second choice: Ghost Busters

With that said...  More Movies!

X-Files: I Want to Believe

It's funny how something can define a little epoch of your life and then quietly slip ( Read more... )

Bella
Bella is the rare movie that even I could sum up in a single sentence.  However, part of the experience of the movie is finding out, ever-so-gradually, what that sentence turns out to be, so I will not utter it here. ;o9  Bella concerns a young man broken by events in his past, a young woman who foresees a future with few options, and their ( Read more... )