So last night I was looking through the list of movies on my OnDemand service and I noticed that they added Halloween H20 to the list. Since I’ve only seen two films in the series (the original and last year’s remake), I decided to check it out. You know, as many problems I’ve had with…
It wasn’t until after seeing Juno that I decided to give Jasan Reitman’s first film a shot. I had skipped the film when it came out two years ago because I’m very anti-smoking and thought that it would be hard to sympathize with a character, whose goal was to shamelessly promote the habit. When I…
Since I was unavailable to post this yesterday, I am moving this week’s Classic Thoughts column to today. Last week when I saw Shine a Light in IMAX, it was my second experience seeing a Rolling Stones concert film in the format. This film was my first (and better) experience. This film was made in…
George Clooney‘s Leatherheads was inspired of the screwball comedies of old, and that film I believe it really picks up on is Howard Hawks’ 1940 film His Girl Friday. It features Cary Grant as a newspaper editor, who is trying to prevent his ex-wife (and former star reporter) from remarrying. The film was the second…
With this month’s release of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I thought I would take a look back at the film that started Judd Apatow‘s “reign of terror.” Anchorman is arguably the best of Will Ferrell‘s staring roles, especially when you consider that the character of traits of the character of Ron Burgandy were repeated in subsequent…
My first film in my look back at classic films is the anime cult classic Ghost in the Shell. I just saw this film for the first time yesterday and one thing that stuck out for me is that I never really noticed that it was animated. This may have been because of the adult-oriented…
