The 1930’s are slowly killing me inside. This week’s undertaking brought me straight to 1938 – Frank Capra’s You Can’t Take It With You starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Larry Barrymore. Alice (Arthur), the only “normal” member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby (Stewart). His wealthy banker father and…
If you are alive and have some sort of beating pulse, you know that Comic-Con was last weekend. Guesstimating by said beating pulse, I’m going out on a limb and assuming that you’ve heard of the Veronica Mars kickstarter that raised $5.7 million to get the blonde sleuth back in action on the big screen.…
Truth: The last post about my watch-every-Best-Picture-winner-before-I-die film quest was in April, when I watched Clint Eastwood be a snarky rascal in Unforgiven. Shame, shame on me. The blog here was alive and active, but my Best Picture watching skillz had taken a serious backseat. That’s an understatement even. It’s just that sometimes, it’s super…
John McClane is really starting to show his age…and no, I don’t mean Die Hard’s bald wonder, Bruce Willis (I’ve always loved him and still do). The series, however, has gone limp, giving Willis little to work with as he trudges and sloshes through the motions, shooting some guns here, flipping some cars there, all…
Last night, I finally got the chance to sit down with Dave Grohl’s 2013 documentary (and directorial debut) about Sound City Studios, a studio responsible for so many legendary albums from Fleetwood Mac, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Pat Benatar, Rage Against the Machine, and countless others. The film, simply titled Sound City, chronicles the studio’s early…
Evil Dead unravels like a movie you’ve already seen: Teenagers head to a cabin in the woods. Teenagers do something idiotic. Teenagers die. At face value, this next jaunt into wooded territory doesn’t sound very appealing or fresh. And that’s not even broaching the fact that director Fede Alvarez has entered sacred ground, remaking the…
Before Chuck Norris, there was Eastwood. And I can’t deny: I’m highly tempted to give up the Epic Film Quest all together. Cold turkey. After watching the 1992 Best Picture winner, Unforgiven, I only want to watch movies that star Clint Eastwood wielding a gun in each hand, chasing down felons or participating in your…
The Amityville Horror is one story that just won’t die. We all know the gist, yeah? Ronald DeFeo, Jr. goes cuckoo and murders his parents, two brothers and two sisters in their beds? George and Kathy Lutz move in a year later with Kathy’s three children and crazy shit starts happening? Surely, you’ve seen, you’ve…
In the middle of writing, directing and cranking out the third highest grossing movie of all time (The Avengers), Joss Whedon collaborated with some friends to make yet another movie, because clearly the man is not a fan of sleep or free time. The movie in question: Much Ado About Nothing, a modern-day version of…
In our world of sequels, remakes and reinterpretations, the land of Oz is a risky one to venture back to. The 1939-wonder The Wizard of Oz is hallowed film ground, and in the past, attempts to return to the yellow brick road were received with questionable results (Return to Oz, The Wiz and Tin Man,…