Tag: movie of the week

Movie of the Week: Monsters.

I just watched Monsters on Netflix, and… it’s not half bad.  It’s an independent film that is ostensibly about, well, monsters rampaging through the Mexican countryside; it’s actually about immigration and/or relationships, depending how you turn your head and squint.  Noteworthy for a couple of things: first, if you want me to watch art films, or whatever the term is, stick some rampaging monsters in it*.  Second: this film had a $500K budget, which tells me that Hollywood is inflating its operating costs by a factor of ten or more. Anyway, it’s a pretty clever flick that worked well within the limitations of its budget and resources.

And so, adieu to O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Moe Lane

*Ninja work, too.

Movie of the Week: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Hey, I thought that I had already done O Brother, Where Art Thou?, too.  Apparently not.  It’s a great, fun film that is great fun – and the soundtrack is prime stuff, too.

And so, Tron: The Original Classic (Special Edition) derezzes.  But we saved to disk first; yes, I’ll stop now.

 

Movie of the Week: Coneheads.

Honestly, Coneheads should have sucked: it was a SNL-inspired movie that had Sinbad and Tom Arnold in it.  And yet, it was an endearingly goofy film that managed to poke gentle fun at various American attitudes towards immigration without actually mocking them overmuch.  Heck, even the titular villain of the piece got to stand his ground.  I liked it.

And so, goodbye to Red.

Movie of the week: Red.

Red was one of those flicks that I actually got to see in theaters; it was cleverly done, had an excellent cast – it takes real skill to screw up a movie that has Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, and Helen Mirren in it – and the plot was surprisingly sweet, considering the amount of explosions.

Quite a lot of explosions.  And automatic weapons fire.  Can’t have too much automatic weapons fire in a movie, in my opinion.

Anyway, that’s it for The Eagle Has Landed.

Movie of the Week: The Eagle has Landed.

Yeah, I know: Inception was starting to get stale.  I picked The Eagle Has Landed mostly because of this inside-blogball political piece demonstrating that there ain’t nothing so stupid that you can’t get a Media Matters for America hack like Eric Boehlert to confidently argue its side, but that’s not really relevant.  It’s a good flick – and if you don’t get the joke, well, I guess that means that you need to see the movie, huh?

Moe Lane

Movie of the Week: The Princess and the Frog.

What can I say? I liked The Princess and the Frog, despite the fact that the jazz soundtrack could have used some work.  It had a refreshing lack of The Idiot Plot, one of the more sensible Disney heroines, and the 1920s is an underused milieu for animation.  Plus, they pushed the envelope just a little, in places.  Subtly.

Also: gunfire.

And so, good-bye to A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.