Movie of the Day – Solaris (1972)

July 15, 2012 Leave a comment

This is a spoiler warning for those that are hoping to find a movie that has lasers, space battles, sexy green alien chicks, lightsabers, and cool looking spaceships.  You aren’t going to find any of that stuff in this science fiction film from acclaimed, Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.  Instead of all of the usual science fiction tropes we get these days, you are getting an incredible introspective, slow and psychologically deep film about understand humanity and its existence, just like everything that has come out of Russia cause that’s how they roll.

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Movie of the Day – Red Dawn

July 3, 2012 1 Comment

WOLVERINES!

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Movie of the Day – D2: The Mighty Ducks

April 20, 2012 2 Comments

SUCK IT all you international pee-wee hockey teams out there.  USA USA USA USA USA USA!  When ducks fly together, they can’t be stopped.  Except they make easier targets for Duck Hunt enthusiasts and trained hunters.  Listen, I don’t have much to say on this movie cause it is one of the most bombastic, chest thumping kid film sequels to ever hit the screens.  I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid and thinking that you could actually do the knuckle puck shot that Kenan Thompson does only to realize that the physics and trajectory of said shot doesn’t really match what the movie shows.  But I will say this, D2 is probably one of the best sequels to a kids movie ever, so move over the Bad New Bears go to Japan.

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Documentary of the Day – Man with a Movie Camera

February 5, 2012 1 Comment

This will be a short post today, not because of the Super Bowl or anything, but mainly because the Puppy Bowl will be on TV.  I am kidding obviously…maybe.  Actually the reason for the short post today is because of the subject matter in today’s selection.  Man with a Movie Camera is documentary that has no specific narrative, no objective to tell a story, is a silent film made in 1929 and is the one most technically diverse documentaries out there.  All the technical camerawork that we see in movies like fast/slow motion, jump cuts, freeze frames, dutch angles and even tracking shots all owe some bit of reverence to this surrealist documentary made by Dziga Vertov.

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Movie of the Day – Rocky IV

December 16, 2011 Leave a comment

There is exactly 10 days until Christmas and I am going to spend these 10 days talking/posting about Christmas movies.  Now I am sure you have already read my Top Ten Christmas Movies list, I mean you are avid readers of my blog so that is a dumb question.  If you haven’t read it, here is the link: Top Ten Christmas Movies

So now that you have read  my list, you know what to expect from my upcoming posts.  It won’t be all about those movies, but you can bet on Die Hard being in that list.  So why not start the list off with the movie that brought democracy to Russia and ended the fucking Cold War, preferably in a montage sequence with some kick ass synth music from the 80s.

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