A major entry in the remake cycle of horror films from the mid to late aughts, Halloween represents Rob Zombie’s attempt to flesh out the original American slasher film. Running at two hours, the first half of the film involves […]
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Owning Mahowny (2003) ☆ ☆ ☆
Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a young bank executive, is moving up in the world. He has a kind girlfriend (Minnie Driver) who wants to be married and was recently promoted. He manages large accounts and is admired by his co-workers. Underneath […]
Continue reading »Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011) ☆ 1/2
Jonathan Safran Foer’s second controversial novel receives a full studio treatment here via Scott Rudin’s production company. The story involves a boy (Thomas Horn) who loses his father (Tom Hanks, a holy being) on September 11 and has a difficult […]
Continue reading »Halloween: Resurrection (2002) ☆
After Halloween H20, it appeared that Michael Myers was finally dead, but the producers of the series, buoyed by that film’s success, decided to continue the saga with a seventh sequel. It turns out that Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) […]
Continue reading »The Finest Career Farewells (10:4)
Note: This article was written in the spring of 2009 and published in the final print issue of Filmbobbery (10:4). As I am saying farewell with this issue, I thought it might be interesting to look at how some […]
Continue reading »Men in Black 3 (2012) ☆ ☆ ☆
I’ve enjoyed the two comedic Men in Black adventures, but I don’t love them. I think that the intrinsic “bigger picture” dramatic value of having a semi-secret government agency protecting Earth from crazy aliens is sacrificed in each movie by focusing […]
Continue reading »Dana Andrews: Unlucky Movie Pilot
Dana Andrews (1909-1992), was a handsome, versatile actor with a wonderfully smooth voice best known for some classic 1940s dramas, and who, between 1957 and 1975, came to embody some of the unluckiest pilots in the movies. Those few appearances […]
Continue reading »The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) ☆ ☆ ☆
Several elderly Britishers react to their unhappy circumstances with a life-changing decision to move to India once they see an ad for a pretty retirement home, known as the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful. When they […]
Continue reading »Addicted to Love (1997) ☆ ☆ ☆
If Alfred Hitchcock were a contemporary filmmaker, he might have made this dark but endearing concoction about the obsessiveness caused by affection. Addicted to Love (1997) is a romantic comedy in which the romantic and sensitive moments are outnumbered by […]
Continue reading »Falling Down (1993) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
The best movies are more than the sum of their parts, a dictum that is certainly true of Falling Down (1993). On the surface, this is a rather simply constructed story of a man who cracks on a hot day […]
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