question of the day: What is your perfect movie?
And what makes a perfect movie perfect for you?
Jaws
question of the day: Who is the “great American filmmaker”?
Steven Spielberg might be my choice…
question of the day: What makes a movie “modern”?
Is it the use of CGI? Is it blockbusterness (or bucking blockbusterness in the age of blockbusters)? Is it just about being produced after a certain date, and if so, when did the “modern” era of film begin?
question of the day: What is your favorite movie scene ever?
Of course it’s almost impossible to narrow it down to one scene in one movie, so feel free to pick a couple…
The Grey movie review: snow men
There is a lot of real-life brutal shit on display, intense facing-your-mortality stuff, and it is anything but pretty…
question of the day: What is so genuinely special about ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ and ‘Back to the Future’?
Tim Walker at The Independent made me cry yesterday, for reminding me how the movies of my childhood made me fall in love with movies, and for suggesting that such movies may never come again…
Saturday cute: ‘Jaws’ meets ‘Peanuts’
What if, instead of Steven Spielberg adapting Jaws for the big screen, Charles Schulz adapted Jaws for the newspaper comic strip?
Trollhunter (review)
There’s tons of delicious suspense of the horror-flick variety to be had in writer-director André Øvredal’s mockumentary, and plenty of Spielbergian shock-awe, but what makes it one of the most satisfying examples of found-footage flicks yet is its observational, journalistic ethos.
Shark Night 3D (trailer)
Where does the “night” part come in? Cuz it’s broad daylight in 99.99 percent of this trailer.
question of the day: What films would you add 4D to, and what would you add?
Sand underfoot for Jaws? Or maybe that “incredible smell” from the trash compactor in Star Wars?
