Film Reviews

These are film discussions, not reviews, and they address issues that I find fascinating -- good or bad -- with the individual films. Feel free to share your thoughts on any of them. And, as always, expect spoilers.

12 Years A Slave (2013)
13 (2010)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2010 (1984)
47 Ronin (2013)
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
After Earth (2013)
After.Life (2009)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Alien (1979)
Alien Resurrection (1997)
Apollo 18 (2011)
Argo (2012)
Army of Darkness (1992)
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Avatar (2009)
The Bad New Bears (1976)
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
Better Off Dead (1985)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Black Hole (1979) v. Event Horizon (1997)
Black Swan (2010)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Blind Side (2009)
Blue Thunder (1983)
Bob Roberts (1992)
Body Double (1984)
Boiler Room (2000)
The Box (2009)
Brazil (1985)
Breaker Morant (1980)
Bridesmaids (2011)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Capricorn One (1978)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Clash(es) of the Titans (1981) & (2010)
Clue (1985)
Conan The Barbarian (2011)
Contagion (2011)
Cop Land (1997)
The Core (2003)
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
Cube (1997)
Dark City (1998)
Dark Shadows (2012) v. The Addams Family (1991)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008)
The Dead Pool (1988)
Deliverance (1972)
Devil (2010)
Divergent (2014)
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Elysium (2013)
Escape Plan (2013)
eXistenZ (1999)
The Expendables 2 (2012)
The Family (2013)
The Fifth Element (1997)
The Final Cut (2004)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Flash Gordon (1980)
Flight (2012)
The French Connection (1971)
The Frighteners (1996)
Fright Night (1985) & (2011)
F/X (1986)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
The Game (1997)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghostbusters II (1989)
Gravity (2013)
The Green Hornet (2011)
Green Lantern (2011)
The Grey (2011)
Groundhog Day (1993)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Halloween (1978)
Highlander (1986)
The Hobbit (2012)
Horrible Bosses (2011)
The Hunger Games (2012)
I Am Legend (2007)
Imposter (2002)
Inception (2010)
Into The Woods (2014)
I, Robot (2004)
The Island (2005)
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
John Carter (2012)
Kick Ass (2010)
The Last Stand (2013)
The Lone Ranger (2013)
Lone Survivor (2013)
Looper (2012)
The Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002, 2003)
Lost in Space (1998)
Margin Call (2011) v. Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
The Master (2012)
The Matrix (1999)
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Memento (2000)
Men in Black (1997)
Minority Report (2002)
Monuments Men (2014)
Moon (2009)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Ninth Gate (1999)
North Dallas Forty (1979) v. Any Given Sunday (1999)
No Way Out (1987)
Now You See Me (2013)
Oblivion (2013)
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Odd Thomas (2013)
Outland (1981)
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
Pacific Rim (2013)
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Paul (2011)
Phantasm (1979)
Phone Booth (2002)
Piranha 3D (2010)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Pitch Black (2000)
Pontypool (2009)
Predators (2010)
Premium Rush (2012)
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Prometheus (2012) ..... (addendum analysis)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Rat Race (2001)
Real Genius (1985)
Real Steel (2011)
Red Dawn (1984) v. Red Dawn (2012)
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Riddick (2013)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
The Rite (2011)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Rollerball (1975)
Ronin (1998)
Rope (1948)
Scott Pilgrim v. The World (2010)
Screamers (1995)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
The Shadow (1994) v. The Phantom (1996)
The Shining (1980)
The Signal (2014)
Silver Streak (1976)
Smokey And the Bandit (1977)
Smokin’ Aces (2007)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
Source Code (2011)
Soylent Green (1973)
The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
Speed Racer (2008)
Stargate (1994)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Super 8 (2011)
Surrogates (2009)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Ted (2012)
Terminator Salvation (2009)
They Came To Cordura (1959)
The Thing (1982) & (2011)
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Three O’Clock High (1987)
Total Recall (2012)
The Tourist (2010)
Trading Places (1983)
Trance (2013)
Transcendence (2014) vs. Lawnmower Man (1992)
Triangle (2009)
Tron: Legacy (2010)
True Lies (1994)
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2011)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Twilight (2008)
Unknown (2011)
Unstoppable (2010)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Vanishing Point (1971)
The Village (2004)
Waiting for Superman (2010)
WALL-E (2008)
Wall Street (1987)
War Games (1983)
The Warriors (1979)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
The Wiz (1978)
The Woman in Black (2012)
World Trade Center (2006)
World War Z (2013)
The Wrestler (2008)
The X-Files (1998)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Zulu (1964)

Akira Kurosawa Week
Ikiru (1952)
Hidden Fortress (1958)
High and Low (1963)


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