Song of the day: “Ready or Not” by The Fugees
Special
Director: Hal Haberman, Jeremy Passmore
Genre: Drama
Year: 2006
There is nothing wrong with Les (Michael Rapaport; Hitch, 29 Palms). Sure he lives alone well into his thirties and seems to have no real relationships, unless you want to count his friendship with the two brothers at the comic [...]
Song of the Day: “blood red blood” by Good Luck at the Gunfight
Goya’s Ghosts
Director: Milos Forman
Genre: Drama
Year: 2006
The movie is called, Goya’s Ghosts….not Francisco Goya. This is important because you do not want to walk into this movie like I did, expecting the story about Francisco Goya and instead getting the story of other people [...]
Song of the Day: “Attitude” by Hardnox
Doubt
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Genre: Drama/Mystery
Year: 2008
Without a doubt – no pun intended – one of the best films of 2008 and timely, in the sense that lately the Catholic Church has been under scrutiny over its actions or the actions of many of its priests. Therefore, this film plays [...]
This is a recent video I watch on my TEDTalks subscription, and felt like sharing. That first poem makes me shiver.
Hope you like it.
Song of the day: “Chant of a Poor Man” by Leftfield
Up
Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Genre: Comedy/Animation/Adventure/Action/Family
Year: 2009
The name of Pixar has become synonymous with quality assurance. The only movie of theirs I have not seen is Cars and from what I understand, even that film, in comparison to other animated films, is pretty good. When [...]
Song of the Day: “Breed” by Snake River Conspiracy
Star Trek
Director: J. J. Abrams
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure/Action
Year: 2009
Ok, so I am not a big Star Trek fan. At all. I do not know what the difference is between a Klingon and a Romulan is aside from one race potentially being better at clinging than the other. I know [...]
Song of the Day: “Ghetto Rock” by Mos Def
The Soloist
I have to say that Joe Wright is quickly rising up on my list of good directors. His Pride & Prejudice definitely surprised me with its stellar cinematography, solid directing and superior acting. Atonement went on to get nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and in [...]
Song of the day: “Gone” by Kanye West feat. Consequence and Cam’Ron
Timecrimes
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Genre: Thriller/Suspense/Crime/Drama/Sci-Fi
Year: 2007
Time travel movies are often difficult to make, mostly due to the differing schools of thought regarding how time travel actually works. The fact that nobody has really time traveled makes it difficult to say any one movie gets it [...]
Song of the Day: “Protect Me From What I Want” – Placebo
I have a number of reviews I wrote yesterday from my long list, they will, however, be released to you one at a time, because we do not want you to O.D. on them. Right? However, before I release those, I will release this [...]
Song of the Day: “The Christmas Sound” by The Swimmers
The Spanish Apartment
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Genre: Drama/Comedy/Romance
Year: 2002
Xavier (Romain Duris; The Beat my Heart Skipped) just wants a job, but the place where he knows he might get one is telling him that he is going to need to get some sort of background on Spanish economics, [...]