Have you ever seen a film and question why it’s not as well known or gets the respect it deserves? I consider myself a film geek and have seen several films throughout the years, while some I saw deserves all the accolades it received and many deserves to be forgotten. But I thought these films …
Continue reading The Flix List: 10+ year-old films that deserve a second look
Earlier this month, Sight and Sound magazine asked many of the well-known filmmakers today to list their favorite films, you can see the list here. For this article, I would like to just focus on Quentin Tarantino's favorite films. If you read most of my articles on this site (i.e. ranking favorite Tarantino's films) then …
Continue reading Musings on Quentin Tarantino’s 12 Favorite Films
Greetings, all and sundry! I am going to take a step sideways and count some coup. Regarding a few recent minor victories involving films that come very close to or exceed 'Required Viewing' status. I'm thrilled that my recent labor of love entailing 'The French Connection' tempted Ruth and others to enjoy its gritty suspenseful wonders. So, I …
Continue reading Classic Flix Review: To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Greetings all and sundry! I am going to take a well deserved respite from Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck and take a few moments to wax poetic and nostalgic about a film that solidly grabbed my attention more than forty years ago. One that firmly anchored the concept of the 'Partner Film'. Which is very …
Continue reading Classic Flix Review: The French Connection (1971)
Happy Monday everyone! Did you have a great weekend? It was a good one for me as well as bittersweet as one of my good friends is going back to our home country for a year for personal reasons, so we had a farewell dinner on Saturday night. I skipped the cinema again and opted …
Continue reading Weekend Viewing Roundup – a mixed bag of 3 genres & 1 addictive TV series
By Ted Saydalavong I’ve written two articles for this site about Hollywood directors, both the hacks and the great ones. So this post completes my directors trilogy posts 🙂 This time I’d like to focus on the past directors who have passed away and some who are still with us but hasn’t done anything significant in …
Continue reading The Flix List: Past and present directors who could/should still make great films
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