Ed. Note: This was supposed to go up on Wednesday. Powers outside my control kept it from posting. I have fixed that, and we will resume our weekly posts this Wednesday Welcome to the 2nd Annual Sacred Walloween! Once again we spend the month...
It is no secret around these parts that I’m not a big fan of Blade Runner. Don’t get me wrong; it’s not a bad film. It’s got some interesting themes, the use of film noir is evocative, and the influence it has had on pop culture is undeniable...
Welcome to yet another Sacred Wall Top Ten! This week, instead of looking at those films that make us love or make us shriek, we are looking at those great films that make us howl with laughter. That’s right, in honor of last month’s BBC list of...
Is satire dead? I legitimately want to know. Because while it has been around for at least two millennia, and been utilized by such geniuses as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Tom Lehrer, Stanley Kubrick and Stephen Colbert, its...
Welcome to the Second Annual Sacred Walloween! I’m pleased to report that this month, on top of the weekly Halloween-based lists (and hopefully a few Greatest Movies Ever lists), I will be posting the blurbs of my 31 Days of Horror viewings on...
The 55th New York Film Festival kicked off last night, and we may have a new major Oscar contender. While the love wasn’t quite universe, and almost everyone had a few nitpicks about things, it seems that Richard Linklater’s newest film, Last...
Man, what a breath of fresh air Logan Lucky is. While it feels, in several ways, like a cross between the 1970s redneck genre popularized by Burt Reynolds a la Smokey and the Bandit and the ultra-cool ultra-smart heist flick a la Ocean’s Eleven...
There is something strange brewing on the horizon. Can you feel it? It’s in the winds of this Oscar season, and I’m not sure how many casual viewers are aware of it. Let me paint the picture for you so you can understand. We have just completed...
What does “Boston Strong” actually mean? Is it a motto? Is it a belief, or a reality? Or is it a well-intentioned myth built to inspire people in a time of fear, sort of like how “Camelot” was made up to inspire people in the face of Kennedy’s...
It’s been a fairly light week of film viewing this week, but I’ve seen some real doozies, both good and bad. I’ve seen two films that will be reviewed later this week, Stronger and Logan Lucky. I won’t give away my thoughts on either yet, but I...
For the most part, the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards were fairly predictable. I myself went 16/27, which is way too high for a year when so many shocks are capable of being delivered (remember that Game of Thrones was ineligible for coming out in...
The 2017 Toronto International Film Festival has come to an end, and it certainly knows how to throw a wrench in things. While there wasn’t the opportunity for any major surprises after the wind was taken by Venice and Telluride, they change...
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