This week's question is inspired by Sin City: A Dame to Kill For screening Tuesday night. Boy it's been ages, almost a decade to be exact, since the first film was released. To be honest with you, I don't remember much about the story but the visual certainly is striking. The graphic novel came to live …
Continue reading Question of the Week: What’s your favorite contemporary black & white films?
Since I just posted a review of Ralph Fiennes' second film that he directed, The Invisible Woman, I thought I'd turn the focus on other sophomore directorial efforts over the years. Interestingly, as I was working on this post, I came across this article that talks about the slump of directorial sophomore efforts in 2013. …
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As part of my Inception-countdown series, I ranked five of Christopher Nolan's movies. Well, now he's got two more under his belt, making his total of feature-length film to seven [excluding Following which wasn't widely distributed]. Just a quick bio per Wikipedia: Born in 1970 in London, Nolan was one of three sons of a …
Continue reading Special Birthday Post: Ranking Christopher Nolan’s 7 Feature Films
With the recent release of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a prequel to Planet of the Apes, it got me thinking of films with twist/surprise/shocking ending. Since the original 1968’s 'Apes' movie was the godfather of twist ending, I figure I should list my favorite films that has a surprise ending. Don’t worry, …
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Woot woot! Three more days until my most-anticipated flick Inception finally arrives! I haven't talked to any movie blogger so far who aren't excited about this movie, and most of my friends are psyched about this as well. I for one am trying hard to keep my enthusiasm in check, by playing this 'game' coined …
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