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Comment on The Film Talk – Part 53 – The Films of Stanley Kubrick by My year working with Stanley Kubrick on 2001 | The Film Talk Movie Review Podcast

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:34:35 +0000

[...] the bone throwing man-ape of 2001, Dan Richter, interviewed on what it was like working with Stanley Kubrick, the meaning of 2001 and the counter-culture experiences of the ’60s.Running time: 22 minutes [...]

Comment on ‘A Cold Night’s Death’ – The Best Thriller/Chiller Pic from the 70′s That You’ve Never Heard Of by Jett Loe

Jett Loe — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:27:55 +0000

Don’t know Glenn – I suggest trying Google.

Comment on ‘A Cold Night’s Death’ – The Best Thriller/Chiller Pic from the 70′s That You’ve Never Heard Of by Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:28:05 +0000

Is this movie available on video or DVD? If so, where can I find it so I can purchase it? Thank you, Glenn

Comment on New Belfast Documentary – Prods and Pom-Poms by Duke Daniels

Duke Daniels — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:36:55 +0000

A nice video. Makes me want to see the film.

Comment on APOLLO 18: The Truth is Out There by vic sage

vic sage — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:29:21 +0000

Many a true word spoken in jest.

Comment on 'Objectified' – Design Around Us and In Us by Nostra

Nostra — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:19:17 +0000

Objectified was a great documentary. You should also check out the two other movies in this trilogy. The first one is about typography and the last one about city planning.

Interesting to see the comparisons between the things Jobs was involved in designing. As is clear from his biography he was a perfectionist, even making sure that the inside looked beautiful.

Comment on The Most Over-Rated and Under-Rated Films of the Decade? by Matt

Matt — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:25:01 +0000

Man on Fire is the MOST UNDERRATED MOVIE of all time.Everything about it is brilliant!

Comment on APOLLO 18: The Truth is Out There by Brandon Nowalk

Brandon Nowalk — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:29:32 +0000

That’s certainly the consensus, though I haven’t seen a pan as penetrating as yours! But…

POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR APOLLO 18

To me Apollo 18 isn’t paranoid about our fellow citizens. The guys risk their lives to save each other over and over, even after it’s clear that one of them is dangerous. The paranoia is firmly directed at the all-powerful, unseen institutions. Even NASA has been taken over by a more powerful, more deadly institution.

The problem for me is how that ending confirms the rightness of that institution. Instead of a big Paths of Glory thing where the pawns ignore their commands to die and help each other to live, it turns out the DOD was right because they’re all infected. We’re supposed to want them dead now to save the planet. It’s a step too far for me, and one that sinks it further the more I think about it.

Comment on THE HELP: Based on the Novel The Help by Uncle Remus by Phil

Phil — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:28:37 +0000

Let’s just all agree Brandon should agree to keep paragraphs within a certain number of words (how about 55?), and we the readers agree not to count words in a paragraphs.

Counting and writing style aside, I think Brandon nailed this movie comparing it to the Blind Side, which I thought had a “made for TV” feel to it.

Comment on APOLLO 18: The Truth is Out There by Julian

Julian — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:04:17 +0000

Apollo 18 is the low rent version of The Expendables. And the Expendables was uber low rent to start with. In both films, customers are attracted, or lured, to cliche ridden hack work through an appeal to their biases.

For the Expendables it’s an atavistic allure. The chance to revisit a politically incorrect past, where a man is a man, and killings are performed with relish and gusto.

For Apollo 18 it’s the chance to luxuriate in turgid, mind numbing paranoia about our fellow citizens and institutions.

In their attempt to plumb the depths of partianship, both films move 180 degrees in opposite directions, and meet at the point of idiocy.