2001: A Space Odyssey
Thursday, January 17th, 2002Music of the spheres.
Category: 'Movie Reviews'
Category archives are in date order with the oldest posts first.
Gosford Park
Tuesday, February 12th, 2002Everyone in their place.
Bottom line: Highly recommended.
About a Boy
Saturday, June 1st, 2002No man is an island. Nor any boy, either.
Bottom Line: Recommended for everyone except those people dating commitment-phobes.
Minority Report
Thursday, June 27th, 2002Everyone runs.
Bottom Line: Recommended with reservations.
Signs
Monday, August 5th, 2002As with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, it’s not about them. It’s about us.
Bottom Line: Highly Recommended.
The Hours
Friday, January 17th, 2003For all that this is a movie about writers, readers, and words, the emphasis is more visual than literary, more evocative than intellectual.
Bottom Line: Highly Recommended
The Quiet American
Monday, February 17th, 2003The quiet one is often the most dangerous.
Bottom Line: Recommended
Juno
Friday, January 18th, 2008A celebration of the functional family without any sticky sentiment.
Bottom line: Recommended
iPhone, A Day in the Life
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Great technology redefines a task so completely that we change our behavior, not because we are forced to adapt to the technology but because the technology provides us with new ways to interact with the world and to do things we never imagined doing before.