This review is a little late in coming and I know you all just want to get out and see the Sex and the City movie now (or, depending on when this is published, Hancock), but I had a lot to say about the newest Indiana Jones film which took a while to say, and then even longer to go through and edit out.
There are some movies we are raised on, which through repeat viewing from an early age we associate so closely with ourselves that they come to be part of...
Shanghai Express is an amazing film in many regards, although, perhaps not acting and/or realism. It is noticeably uneven, but hard to dismiss. Because Marlene Dietrich has a light and weary smile, and the director, Josef von Sternberg, has an eye for scene composition. It is beautiful, but frustrating, because it is exactly like watching a good friend wreck herself over a man who isn’t worth her attention. The man who left her and she never stopped loving.
Dietrich...
Writing a review for this epic new Superman movie is proving a daunting task. It’s hard to love a movie as much as I loved it and explain why in reasonable terms. On one level, my enjoyment was just pure awe. The movie works on other levels, however, but to explain all of them would be to give away much of the film’s important developments. Let’s just start things off with a simple “Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns is, from an objective standpoint, the best superhero movie ever...
Somewhere I read that the monarch/aristocrat with democratic values was a peculiarly American invention, that is an invention of Hollywood, and that thought was running through my mind when I watched this movie last night at the Virginia Theater in downtown Champaign. Though I wish I could remember who said it, and about what.
However, Mutiny on the Bounty, at least this version (1935, the second of at least five movies), gives you a fairly good example of that American...
