Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Politics, Pop Culture, Psychology, tagged Aaron Eckhart, Batman, Bruce Wayne, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Comic Book Movies, Crime Saga, Crime Thrillers, DC Comics, Gary Oldman, Harvey Dent, Heath Ledger, James Gordon, Jonathan Nolan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Sequels, Superhero Movies, Terrorism, The Dark Knight, The Joker, Two Face on July 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Terror in the Knight, 22 July 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA
Director Christopher Nolan has tapped into a cultural zeitgeist with his soaring Dark Knight. No other director has shown so much ambition while working within the context of such an iconic name brand belonging to popular culture. By building upon the excellent [...]
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Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, Michel Gondry, Be Kind Rewind, Wanted, Timur Bekmambetov, Jack Black on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s weird how one movie experience can affect another.
CAPTION: Yeah, pretty much, what the hell?
Over the July 4th weekend I rented Be Kind Rewind and brought it over to my brother’s place to watch. I had such high hopes for this flick. I think it’s amazing what director Michel Gondry was able to do with [...]
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Posted in Art-house Cinema, Arts and Entertainment, Awards, Book to Film Adaptations, History, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Joe Wright, Oscar Predictions, David Fincher, Previews, Trailers, Fall Movie Preview, Spike Lee, The Miracle at St. Anna, Movie Trailers, Mongol, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Australia, Baz Luhrmann, The Soloist, Revolutionary Road, Sam Mendes, Changeling, Clint Eastwood, Defiance, Edward Zwick, Daniel Craig, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Alexandra Maria Lara, Burn After Reading, Quantum of Solace, Ghengis Khan on July 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
CAPTION: Ghengis Khan is all up in this yurt.
So last week I saw that flick Mongol, you know, the new epic about Ghengis Khan made by a Russian director (Sergei Bodrov), starring a Japanese dude (Tadonubo Asano), nominated for an Oscar, and inexplicably released stateside in the middle of the summer movie season. It was a pretty [...]
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Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Bad Movies, M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Whalberg, Philadelphia, The Happening, Thrillers, Zooey Deschanel on June 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
CAPTION: Run, run away from the bad director.
My Mood Ring Indicates Laughter, 17 June 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA
Some mysterious “event” causes people in the Northeast to start killing themselves (loved the Philadelphia Zoo scene!) and forces an unhappy couple (Mark Whalberg and Zooey Deschanel) to work on their marriage problems lest [...]
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Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Action Adventure, Action Films, Cate Blanchett, David Koepp, Film Franchises, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones, Janusz Kasminski, Karen Allen, Sequels, Serials, Shia LaBeouf, Steven Spielberg, Stunts, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on May 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
CAPTION: Cate Blanchett tells Harrison Ford, “YOU MUST RELIVE YOUR CHILDHOOD.”
Where Were the Dinosaurs?, 25 May 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA
Nineteen years after the alleged Last Crusade, producer George Lucas, director Steven Spielberg, and over-the-hill star Harrison Ford reunite for a fourth Indiana Jones film with The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. [...]
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Posted in Art, Art-house Cinema, Movie Reviews, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Orson Welles, Film Classics, Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane, William Randolph Hearst, Ballyhoo, Rosebud, RKO, Mercury Theater, Film School, Criterion Collection on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
This spring I continue to utilize my Netflix queue to take myself to “school” with film classics. Earlier in the month I finally sat down to watch Citizen Kane in its entirety for a critical review. Without further adieu…
CAPTION: Say, Charlie, you gotta name for that sled?
All That Ballyhoo!, 5 May 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher [...]
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Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Action Films, Comic Book Movies, Gwyneth Paltrow, Iron Man, Jeff Bridges, Jon Favreau, Marvel Comics, Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
CAPTION: Gwyneth Paltrow uses a military escort to pick up Robert Downey Jr. from rehab.
Adequate Cure for Cinematic Anemia, 6 May 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA
The crown prince of America’s premier weapons manufacturer Tony Stark (a sober Robert Downey Jr.) grows a conscience after being captured by terrorists in Afghanistan and decides [...]
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Posted in Books, Language, Literature, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Atonement, colloquialisms, Double Indemnity, Film Noir, Graham Greene, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, humor, Old Timey, phrases, slang, The Little Rascals, vernacular, Victorian Era Novels on April 19, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Part of the wonder of a living language is reviving dead words and phrases. When I recently began to toy with the idea of doing a series of novels set in the 1920’s, 1930’s, and 1940’s, I began to wonder if my knowledge of The Little Rascals would be enough to create that period dialog [...]
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Posted in Art-house Cinema, History, Inspiration, Movie Reviews, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Alexander Korda, Alida Valli, Anton Karas, Carol Reed, David O. Selznick, Film Classics, Film Noir, Film School, Graham Greene, Joseph Cotten, Kati Marton, Orson Welles, Post WWII Occupation, The Third Man, Trevor Howard, Vienna, Zither on April 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
CAPTION: In 1949, this Valli was located in GreeneLand.
CAPTION: In the best of film noir, a viewer can actually feel the dampness and breathe in the darkness.
The Trouble with Harry Lime, 1 April 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA
I initially felt a fool for not having seen The Third Man earlier. However, in retrospect, [...]
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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Awards, Drinking Games, Movies, Pop Culture, Television, tagged 80th Annual Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Atonement, Coen Brothers, Jon Stewart, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country for Old Men, Oscar Pools, Oscar Predictions, Oscar Winners, Oscars, There Will Be Blood on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The 80th Annual Academy Awards aired Sunday Night, February 24, 2008. Below were my predictions for the winners in the major categories. The actual winners were filled in after the Oscars were announced.
It was an off year for the Academy as they chose the absolute worst film for Best Picture as a way to finally reward the [...]
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