Happy Memorial Day, everyone! It's certainly an unusually quiet Memorial Weekend for most of us. Instead of kicking off the 'official' Summer travel season here in the US, the Covid-19 pandemic has basically ground everyone as stay-at-home order are still in place in many areas. But one thing remain the same… in that we ought …
Continue reading Music Break: 10 Patriotic Film Scores To Honor Memorial Day
Hollywood loves making films about WWII and to their credit they produced some great ones. In my opinion, Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line were the last great films about this war. And even though I loved Inglorious Basterds, I don’t count it as true WWII film, if you saw it then you …
The 90s was the dawn of heavily usage of CGI in films, bloated budgets and digital sound in movie theaters. Batman Returns was the first film to include Dolby Digital in its soundtrack and Jurassic Park was the first film to have used DTS soundtrack. I saw those two films in theater and that’s when …
Continue reading Top Ten Films of the 90s – by Ted Saydalavong
The final Monday of May is a Memorial Day holiday here, which is a day to remember the fallen men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. As a U.S. resident, I'm definitely grateful of the service of Military men and women. Freedom is definitely NOT free and the people …
Continue reading Memorial Day Special: Pictorial Tribute to U.S. Soldiers in the Movies
By Ted Saydalavong The Criterion Collection is a video-distribution company selling "important classic and contemporary films" to cinema lovers everywhere. It was founded back in 1984 and they only released their films on Laser Disc (remember those?) back when VHS was the king in home video market. Then later they released their films on DVD when …
Continue reading Question of the Week: What are your favorite Criterion Collection films?
It's been almost a year since I had an Everyone's a Critic post! I shall try to have this a bit more regular, perhaps more of a quarterly feature on this blog. Special thanks to Mike Beery (check out Mike's contributor page), my Twi-mom friend Marianne Lemire, and FC's frequent guest blogger Ted S. for …
Continue reading EVERYONE’S A CRITIC: Life as We Know It, Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Thin Red Line
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