It does have some pacing problems, and a tendency to fall back on trite background imagery during voice-overs, but these are pretty minor complaints overall; the story itself is painstakingly assembled and chilling.   One …

Hey Sars,
LF should try Jeff Shaara’s Rise to Rebellion. It’s a well researched historical fiction (though more history than fiction) work that reads like a novel, following the main players of the Revolutionary War on …

I’m not sure which of his books it may be, but it sounds like something from photographer Robert Vavra. He photographs horses and other animals but has also done some beautiful photography of “unicorns.” Here …

Fabulous!Again with the weird hats on Rosalind Russell — was that in her studio contract or something? — but it’s so silly and catty and it zips right along.Thumbs up.(7/3/06)

Worthwhile once you get to the end, but really unfun to watch — which is partly a compliment to Gena Rowlands’s performance (un! comfortable!), partly a comment on Cassavetes movies in general (awk! ward! and! …

What a marvelous movie.Over and over again, I would start to feel a stirring of impatience with the repetition and the collaging, only to get sucked back by an image or a twist.And what splendid …

Trog is laughing right now because I had this out from Netflix for six months, no joke.But I’ve finally watched it, and…wow.You know, I’d never seen a Joan Crawford movie; I’d seen Mommie Dearest about …

Oh my crap, where to begin with this…”movie.” It has so many serious problems, I can’t even decide which one is primarily at fault, but I think it’s a “flawed in its inception” issue, because …

I saw this a bit ago, but forgot to write it up here.It was good, and yet it was annoying.The acting was good, and yet it was…annoying.I liked watching it, and yet I kind of …

Pretty good; I’d expected better reviews after the seemingly endless pre-release hype, but it’s actually quite good despite some lukewarmness in the press.It just suffers from the usual problems biopics have — too much symbolic …