While I wouldn’t put this on my less-than-famous Embarrassment List, this is certainly a film that I’ve been meaning to see since it’s release almost ten years ago (amazing to think that a film which came out in ’01 is nearly ten years old). I’ve had this on DVD forever, and had it in my mind to knock off a film I’d always wanted to see. So, here we go…
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After watching the precursor to this film, I just had to watch this classic again. So I grabbed the DVD off the shelf, popped it in, and hoped I wasn’t wrong about how great it was. There are some SPOILERS BELOW.
This is the inspiration (along with the source novel WHO GOES THERE) which inspired the classic 1982 John Carpenter film THE THING. I had always heard that this was a good flick in its own right, and was happy to see it come up on TCM.
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I caught pieces of this when it had a short run in the theater this year. Every time I stepped in, I found myself laughing at the antics, or smiling at the music. This is the story of a time when British radio did not allow Rock music to be played on air (late 60s). In response, several groups of DJs went into international waters to broadcast. This is a fictional story, loosely based on those events.
Matt Damon teaming back up with BOURNE director Paul Greengrass for an Iraq War conspiracy theory action-thriller? Sign me up!
I’d always heard of this film, and in fact have owned the DVD for about six or seven years, but just never had gotten through it. I had put it on my laptop on a flight from LA to RI one time, but after ten minutes realized it needed more attention than the crammed confines of an airplane allowed. So, I finally got back to it today.
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When I heard about this project, I thought this was a perfect marriage of George Clooney’s sense of humor and Wes Anderson’s style of filmmaking. Add in a unique stop-motion style of animation, and I had a pretty good idea that this would be, if nothing else, a unique experience.
As I said in last year’s write-up of the Jim Carrey version, this story is very special to me. It was a big part of the reason I fell in love with theater, and I just adore its message. So here’s a short (about 70 minutes) 30s version with Reginald Owen in one of the most famous roles in literary history.
After watching AIRPLANE! this morning, I could not have picked a more diametrically opposed night cap than THE LARAMIE PROJECT. This is something I’ve seen performed very well on stage (most notably, by North Kingstown High School and by Mt. Hope High School at two consecutive Rhode Island State Drama Festivals). I didn’t know a film version had been made, so I was excited to give it a go.
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I figured I would watch this in honor of the passing of comic legend Leslie Nielsen. He was a true legend, and this was certainly his most iconic film, even if one could argue which his best was. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen most of his stuff, and I wanted to give this another go.
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