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Neither am I but that wasn't what I was saying. OBVIOUSLY it's his opinion. Where did I say it wasn't? Oh that's right, I didn't. Honestly, it never ceases to amaze me how people respond to any criticism of a reviewer by whining 'It's his opinion!' as if somehow I were suggesting it...

>>>>>The Feature: 3.5/5 Hate to say it but this is one of the poorer reviews I've read. Too many net critics, not just HTF's, are hopelessly exaggerating minor issues & completely failing to grasp what this film is really about & why it's been such a huge success. It's depressing &...

I seem to recall reading somewhere that Russia has no facilities for dealing with 70mm & the likelihood of removing the original to another country where such facilities do exist is, well, remote, to put it mildly.

Changeling is a gripping movie for adults - 'manna for grown ups' as one reviewer rightly called it. Angelina Jolie turns in a terrific performance as Christine Collins, a demure single mother in 1920's Los Angeles whose missing son becomes a rallying point for the oppressed citizens of LA, who...

Except that the absence of marketing or in your face hype is itself a form of marketing! When WB took the decision to open Million Dollar Baby in a handful of theatres that was a strategy known as 'platforming' & a marketing choice. It allowed viewers & a handful of prominent critics favoured...

There's another version of events which is up on a few sites. Gotta say this one sounds a lot more likely:

Move over Angelina Jolie's 'Changeling.' Is this a car movie, a western, another Dirty Harry, or something completely different? I'm betting it's the latter but, hey, read on ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clint to drive 'Gran Torino' Actor to...

"Thanks to Network’s fresh and vastly improved edition, 'The Prisoner' can journey happily into the future." Patrick McGoohan, August 2007 Yup, more details of the upcoming 40th Anniversary Edition at Network's site: http://www.networkdvd.net/product_in...roducts_id=481 The...

It's always been a really jarring moment for me. I saw BR on its original release & numerous times since & on every single viewing that clumsy insert of the dove flying into the bright blue yonder against the background of a very ordinary looking factory always makes me wince. It's the one shot...

The Prisoner - 40th Anniversary Special Edition The series itself needs no introduction, but our approach to it has been very different from previous issues. Further details will be released over the next few weeks but we can tell you that the series has been completely restored in high...

What an amusingly apt metaphor for Yr 2!

Absolutely true. DWW was the epitome of movie political correctness when it came out. In fact one of the most frequent criticisms of Costner's film was that it was more a set of fashionable new age liberal attitudes dressed up in wild west gear than it was a 'proper' Western embodying authentic...

What does 'Jaws' have that wasn't done either as well or better than in Hitchcock's 'The Birds'? Not a trick question, I'm genuinely curious because although I enjoy 'Jaws' & can see it's very well made I've never been convinced of its place on a 100 greatest films list. If you include its...

It's an improvement over the original list. More genuinely great movies are included (lovely to see a Buster Keaton movie in there) & many of the previous embarrassments have either disappeared or gotten lower in the rankings. But as ever with the AFI it's one step forward & two steps back...

Out of that new list there's only three that deserve the nod: Titanic Million Dollar Baby Mystic River But the AFI's list is hard to take seriously anyway so if these don't make it I won't be surprised (& where the heck is Murnau's 'Sunrise' on that Top 100)? I don't understand how any...

It's a funny, scary, delightfully gruesome, end of the world tale. Romero is well served by his principal actors and setting the story in a shopping mall was a stroke of genius. I like the Goblin score as well.

Well not really. I've already stated I think After Hours and Goodfellas, are, if not great, then certainly near great movies. But to answer your question, some movies that I consider great? Well ... Sunrise (FW Murnau) The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock) Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Mammoulian)...

The trouble with that argument, which rests on the hypothesis that Scorsese's earlier work is of such power and profundity that nobody else could equal it, not even Scorsese himself, is that it's nothing more than fanboy hyperbole. I'm going to say something which won't be popular with the...

I never for one moment thought that I was and I hope people don't believe I was attacking them in return. :-)

Yeah, I thought it was for the first 10 mins when we see the characters as younger versions of themselves but after that .. no problem.

And Jason is demonstrably wrong - as are you (that's not an opinion btw, that IS a fact. Just go read the reviews on Amazon or some other consumer site. They're very mixed). I don't know where this attitude that criticism of The Departed is a minority thing comes from. Even the positive reviews...

Must I? If calling out three mediocre, poorly written, miscast & uneven movies means I have 'impossibly high standards' then I think it's pretty clear where you're coming from!

Dear god, please let this be better than the last three Scorsese/DiCaprio movies .. The Departed was yawnsomely average, The Aviator was mediocre & GoNY was a terrible, terrible film.

Sorry to say this but I thought Kaufman's remake was unremittingly average from start to finish. Setting the invasion in a major city was a serious misjudgment on the part of the filmmakers. Cities are impersonal places anyway so where's the dramatic tension in placing emotionless pod people in...

I appreciate the review Pat but I find myself disagreeing with some of your comments. For instance you say 'Gagnon was present at the flag raising, but he was not one of the men in the picture.' But actually Gagnon was in the picture. He's one of the six men raising the flag in Rosenthal's...

Plus a Letters 2-disc SE. http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releas...-iwo-jima.html

Michael's post reminded me of Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's (Cure, Pulse, Bright Future) comments about Letters from Iwo Jima. Reproduced below from the SF Bay Guardian for those interested: Sagacious and audacious: Kiyoshi Kurosawa talks about Letters From Iwo Jima The Academy...

I think the question is whether it's a voter movie with sufficient appeal to the Academy's predominantly 50+ age group. My own feeling - and I read the other day a couple of critics making the same point - is that The Departed will get its reward in the Director category and that will be...

Bear in mind that if Letters gets nominated for Pic then Eastwood will get a Director nom to go with it. And the Academy membership certainly received screeners of Letters. The question is did enough of them watch it?