johnlink ranks WORLD WAR Z (2013)

•February 16, 2014 • 7 Comments

The resurgence of the zombie genre is due for a downslide. The release of this past weekend’s VAMPIRE ACADEMY shows that the recent interest in bloodsuckers is waning. What’s next on the horror docket? The slasher genre came back and went in the 1990s. The werewolf is long overdue for a solid story arc. I, FRANKENSTEIN was a non-starter, so it doesn’t look like we will be dragged back there. Revisiting expressionist horror of the German silent cinema is probably too esoteric to be viable. Instead, we will probably just keep trotting out remakes and reboots and retellings. But I digress. Anyway, I’m here to talk about WORLD WAR Z. So that is what I am going to do.

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johnlink re-ranks X-MEN (2000)

•February 14, 2014 • 2 Comments

With the next X-MEN on the horizon, it is about time to revisit the originals. For this blog, only the first of the original trilogy has been considered. So I’ll do this one again, and see what the other two early films have to hold as well. Maybe we will even get to the WOLVERINE films, though the first cooled me to the possibility of the second. As for FIRST CLASS… we will see if we get that far (I’ve already ranked it once). It’s crazy that DAYS OF FUTURE PAST will be the 6th X-MEN film. How quickly a franchise develops…

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johnlink ranks SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952)

•February 13, 2014 • 2 Comments

Despite having a degree in theater and being a couple months away from a master’s in theater education, I am not well versed in the musical. My directing exploits have been purely straight-play. My interest in musicals has just never been extensive as I often find them trite and disengaging. However, as I start to launch into a search for a teaching position, I figure it would be good to hit some of the highlights. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, certainly, is one of the most famous.

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johnlink ranks MASSACRE MAFIA STYLE (1978)

•February 12, 2014 • 2 Comments

I watched this at the end of last year as my entry for Shitfest Winter over at The IPC. Now that it’s been up for most of today over there, I figured it was safe to throw it up on this page here. “Throw it up” is a fitting phrase, since this movie is akin to vomit.

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johnlink ranks THE DEBT (2010)

•February 10, 2014 • 5 Comments

A remake of the 2007 Israeli film HA-HOV, this 2010 movie is in a category of being a remake of a movie less than five years old. It can be a dubious proposition to do such a thing. LET ME IN did it with some success around the same time period. Yet a movie like OLDBOY gets an English remake a decade after the original foreign film and a good portion of the audience still won’t accept it. THE DEBT’s release came with a knee jerk reaction of many automatically disregarding it in favor of the original. I’ve never seen the original, so I have no such predisposition. Here I will consider the English version of THE DEBT with absolutely no knowledge of its source.

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johnlink ranks WOULD YOU RATHER (2012)

•February 9, 2014 • 1 Comment

WOULD YOU RATHER is an indie horror flick which was picked up by IFC and subsequently given a run on HBO. It is a minor horror film, to be sure, but the idea seemed to be worthy enough to give it a shot. Sometimes there is nothing better than sinking into the couch late at night with a horror movie for which you have no expectations whatsoever.

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johnlink ranks 101 DALMATIANS (1961)

•February 5, 2014 • 3 Comments

My intake of animated films has bumped up noticeably with my son’s ability to sit through entire movies happily. He’s big into animals because, well, you know, he’s three. I’ve been proud of his choices so far with the way he has gone after classic Disney blindly. I’m sure I have years of ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS ahead, so I am going to enjoy this while I can. crudvil-431x300 Continue reading ‘johnlink ranks 101 DALMATIANS (1961)’

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johnlink ranks ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012)

•February 5, 2014 • 3 Comments

… because any time you can follow up a Buster Keaton comedy with a movie about torture and a mass murderer, you have to do it. ZERO DARK THIRTY has been on my list to see for far too long. I’m thinking I should just start a series called “John Lincoln Is Late To The Oscar Party” and keep watching stuff I should have seen already.

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johnlink ranks WHAT! NO BEER? (1933)

•February 4, 2014 • 4 Comments

To this point I have completely avoided all Buster Keaton talkies. His reputation after the advent of sound film is suspect, and I still have a virtual treasure cove filled with excellent silent work to get to. But I’m a sucker for beer. And I’m a sucker for Buster Keaton. So an early sound comedy about Buster Keaton making beer at the end of Prohibition seemed too promising to pass up!

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johnlink ranks GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (2005)

•February 4, 2014 • 7 Comments

In my last semester of grad school I am taking a (rather work heavy) class on politics in theater. I have a major assignment to work on an era and a play, and I’m looking at a play about the HUAC hearings during the McCarthy communist hunt. One of my sources (though it may get shot down for not being academic enough) is the George Clooney film GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. I’d seen it once, and it was time to get at it again.

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