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Mar 22, 2002 · Blade II. "Blade II" is a really rather brilliant vomitorium of viscera, a comic book with dreams of becoming a textbook for mad surgeons. There are shots here of the insides of vampires that make your average autopsy look like a slow afternoon at Supercuts. The movie has been directed by Guillermo del Toro, whose work is dominated by two ...
Apr 26, 2012 · The two candidates, for me, are Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York" (2008) and Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" (2011). Like the Herzog, the Kubrick and the Coppola, they are films of almost foolhardy ambition. Like many of the films on my list, they were directed by the artist who wrote them.
May 28, 2000 · Aged clerics shake their heads sadly and inspire flashbacks to childhood guilt. The writer, a Marxist, is openly contemptuous of his work. Doctors advise him to drink mineral water and get rest, a lot of rest. The producer begs for quick rewrites; having paid for the enormous set, he insists that it be used.
Apr 4, 2017 · It understands that families are complicated and their problems are not solved during a short visit, just in time for the film to end. Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with. "The Dark Knight" (7/16/08) “ Batman ” isn’t a comic book anymore.
Feb 26, 1999 · Written by. Andrew Kevin Walker. Joel Schumacher's "8mm'' is a dark, dank journey into the underworld of snuff films, undertaken by a private investigator who is appalled and changed by what he finds. It deals with the materials of violent exploitation films, but in a non-pornographic way; it would rather horrify than thrill.
May 16, 2024 · List of movies Roger Ebert gave four stars, ranked best to eh. This is NOT a complete list of all of Roger Ebert's four star movies. In fact, the famous critic gave nearly 1,000 movies 4-star reviews in his 46 year career writing for The Chicago Sun Times, many of which have long since dropped from the collective consciousness. So this list ...
Jul 31, 2009 · The top ten films in the poll from 1952 to 1992. "The River Journey" in "The Night of the Hunter". "The Ride Of The Valkyries" from "Apocalypse Now". A sequence from "Sunrise". Deborah Kerr in "Black Narcissus". Wandering on the island, from "L'Avventura". All lists of the "greatest" movies are propaganda. They have no deeper significance.
