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9/31: Into The Woods
January 10, 2015 – 7:21 AM | 11 Comments
9/31: <em>Into The Woods</em>

“Oh dear. How uneasy I feel. Perhaps it’s all the sweets.” – my new ringtone.

Cinemarch Madness: De Palma Division Poll
March 12, 2013 – 10:09 AM | 17 Comments
Cinemarch Madness: De Palma Division Poll

Wow.
I don’t know if Blow Out will do very well, but it’s a great film with no hope for human beings — as well as 1) De Palma at his best at harnessing his intensities …

Alice In Wonderland
January 25, 2011 – 11:10 PM | 23 Comments
<I>Alice In Wonderland</I>

I’d never have seen Alice In Wonderland of my own accord. I like Tim Burton a lot and I enjoy everyone in the cast, but the source material has always annoyed me; even as a …

When You’re Strange
July 11, 2010 – 12:58 PM | 37 Comments
<I>When You’re Strange</I>

My opinion of Jim Morrison is not a secret, but in case you’ve just arrived on Tomato Nation: hate. Morrison’s poet-shaman-of-the-bacchanal persona comes off to me as just that — a persona, sophomoric, obvious, contrived. …

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
February 22, 2010 – 8:20 AM | 11 Comments
<I>The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus</I>

Roger Ebert, though he feels more generously towards it than I, sums up my reaction to the movie in his January 6 review:
My problem with Gilliam’s films is that they lack a discernible storyline. I …