Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
#7 in my Ranking of Quentin Tarantino movies. This movie is chock full of greatness, but it ends up being a bit less than the sum of its parts. I can easily see how someone would take those different great moments and get wrapped up in the whole movie while glossing over the fact that… Continue reading Inglourious Basterds
(I started writing reviews of the Criterion Collection Bergman films with Wild Strawberries, having missed the first three films. This is a rectification.) This is one of Bergman's lightest and most easily delightful films. I just wish it added up to a bit more, though I enjoy the film as it is thoroughly. The movie is… Continue reading Smiles of a Summer Night
#9 in my Ranking of Quentin Tarantino movies. Instead of making a grindhouse movie, Tarantino made a Tarantino slasher movie. It mostly works. The structure of the film is defined by its two halves. The first half, follows a group of four young women as they have an evening out in Austin, Texas. Because they… Continue reading Death Proof
Don't just take it from me. Take it from a Top 500 reviewer on Amazon: "Yep, as I said this isn't some navel-gazing vanity work. There's action, George already struggling with his new life and trying to reconcile it with the world of war, now having to act in a very unfamiliar capacity when a… Continue reading Really, you should be reading Crystal Embers
#2 in my Ranking of Quentin Tarantino movies. Much like The Lord of the Rings and Manon des Sources, Kill Bill was a large movie shot at one time and released in separate parts. It is amazing that over the course of a single movie, Tarantino turned himself into one of the premier action directors… Continue reading Kill Bill
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