Month: November 2009
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Review: Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Inglourious Basterds Rating Director Quentin Tarantino Screenplay Quentin Tarantino Length 153 min. Starring Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Jacky Ido, B.J. Novak, Omar Doom, August Diehl, Denis Menochet MPAA Rating R for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack…
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The DVD Report #129
I’ll have DVD reviews of Up, Star Trek and the 70th Anniversary Edition of Gone With the Wind soon, but for now let’s take a little detour into the world of CDs. Now that downloads of songs have become the thing to do, CDs that you can actually hold in your hand may well be…
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Review: The Stoning of Soraya M (2009)
The Stoning of Soraya M Rating Director Cyrus Nowrasteh Screenplay Betsey Giffen Nowrateh, Cyrus Nowrasteh (Book: Freidoune Sahebjam) Length 116 min. Starring Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marno, Jim Caviezel, Navid Negahban, Ali Pourtash, David Diaan, Parviz Sayyad, Vida Ghahremani, Vachik Mangassarian MPAA Rating R for a disturbing sequence of cruel and brutal violence, and brief strong…
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1988 at the Oscars
1988 had probably the most diverse group of winners in awards history with none of the major pre-cursors agreeing on anything. The L.A. Film Critics were the first out of the box this year. They declared the two-part British import, Little Dorrit, directed by Christine Edzard from one of Charles Dickens’ lesser known novels, to…
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TB #5: Feels Like a Nominee, Must Be a Nominee
So, we are at the point of the year where all the major film festivals are over, and so most of the major Oscar contenders have been seen, at least by some film critics and insiders. In fact, there only seem to be three films that no one has yet seen: James Cameron’s Avatar, Peter…
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The DVD Report #128
Christmas comes early on Blu ray with the release not only of the holiday classics, A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life, but with the releases of 50th Anniverary Edition of North by Northwest, the long sought after release of Forrest Gump and Criterion’s first subscriber voted release, Howards End, as well. Charles Dickens’…
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1987 at the Oscars
1987, like 1986, was a year in which there was no clear front-runner for Best Picture. The National Board of Review was first up, naming Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun the year’s best film and presenting him with their Best Director award as well. The New York Film Critics went the comedy route with…
