Getting Emotional with Movies, Part 10: Wonder
WONDER If I was going to devise an emotional spectrum for movies, I’d put Contempt on one extreme with Wonder on the other. Films that fall under Contempt tend to be the ugliest and...
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New Blu-ray and DVD Releases: June 14th
Rank the week of June 14th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time: NEW RELEASES BATTLE:LOS ANGELES (DVD and Blu-ray | PG13 | 2011) Flickchart Ranking: #3294 Times Ranked: 3631...
Getting Emotional with Movies, Part 6: Sadness
Get your heart racing with Fear before breaking down into Sadness. SADNESS I don’t become sad during movies too often, probably because I tend to avoid tearjerkers and depressing subject matter. Out of all...
Getting Emotional with Movies, Part 5: Fear
Be sure to get all hot and bothered with Desire before taking on Fear. FEAR Let’s get the scariest movie scene in the history of humankind out of the way right now: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5HZzjjI9Y[/youtube]
Getting Emotional with Movies, Part 3: Food For Thought
Before you try to wrap your head around Food for Thought, be sure to vent your frustrations with Anger. FOOD FOR THOUGHT Films that stimulate one’s mental energy can range from mindbenders, such as...
Criterion Commentaries: “The Virgin Spring”
The Virgin Spring is Ingmar Bergman’s undervalued, visually arresting masterpiece from 1960. To what extent is it under appreciated? Despite winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Bergman himself always downplayed the...
The Guilty Pleasures: “Josie and the Pussycats”
It seems that without fail, I can never look away from this film once it appears on my TV screen. The appeal of this movie hurts me to the core; it brings me to...
The Guilty Pleasures: “Ricochet”
Ricochet (1991 | Rated R) Flickchart Ranking: #3835 Times Ranked: 2606 Win Percentage: 30% How Many Top-20’s: 1 Users It’s right around the time that John Lithgow and Jesse Ventura equip themselves with phone...
Controversial Clashes: “Blue Velvet” vs. “I Spit On Your Grave” (Part 2)
If you missed part one, be sure to catch up at Controversial Clashes: “Blue Velvet” vs. “I Spit On Your Grave” (Part 1). I Spit On Your Grave vs. Deliverance One of the taglines...
Reel Rumbles #28 – “Burlesque” vs. “Showgirls”
In This Corner… At one magical time in cinema history, director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas teamed up to create a tale of toplessness and treachery. Elizabeth Berkley, an actress then best known for her role...
That the film focuses more on Kong surprises me not at all. He more closely approximates an actual character, while…
Absolutely loved "Insidious: The Red Door"! The emotional depth and intense storytelling took this franchise to a whole new level.
I liked Guardians 3. It was a good ending to the trilogy. Gunn is one of the few filmmakers who…
Top Gun and Banshees deserve all the good awards.
North Dallas Forty might be appearing an article to come ;)