One more BERNIE post…if y’all can stand it
Midnight in the Garden of East Texas This is the Texas Monthly article upon which BERNIE was based; journalist Skip Hollansworth co-wrote the screenplay with director Richard Linklater.
The beauty of MELANCHOLIA
We won’t lie, we’d never seen Lars von Trier’s Melancholia on a big screen before. While the director is understandably controversial, there’s no disputing that he made a beautiful film. We really want more people to see this movie, hopefully the screen caps below will help convince you […]
If you missed MELANCHOLIA last year, check out this review of “an atypical disaster film” in which “[director Lars] von Trier cleverly challenges the weightlessness and unthinking, flippant nature often exhibited by the typical ones.” We’ll be showing it this Friday 2/15 at 8 p.m. and Sunday 2/17 […]
Oscars-related apps, etc.
Just a few more days until the film fanatic’s Super Bowl, aka the Academy Awards. We’ve had an official Oscars app for a few years, here are some other Oscar-related apps and sites, if you’re into that.
Cabin in the Woods - A Must See
Cabin in the Woods is one of those movies that you want to tell your friends about but can’t for fear of giving away too much. In cases like this I usually say, “Trust me. Just go see it.” But that really doesn’t make for a good movie […]
Originally posted on Paula's Cinema Club:
The envelope please… The winners, the losers, the snubs, the back stories, the gossip, the players, the games…this time it’s all about Oscar! We’re back! Myself, Kellee (@IrishJayhawk66) of Outspoken and Freckled, and Aurora (@CitizenScreen) of Once Upon a Screen are…
First Impressions: John Carter
I wrote this review when John Carter first came out. I still feel the same way about this future-cult classic. I saw John Carter yesterday and I really enjoyed it. The movie, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars (1912), balances action and world building better […]
Movies You May Have Missed 2012 schedule
Every year, there are those movies that, for whatever reason, we don’t get around to seeing, though we’ve heard good things about them, or that we wanted more people to see. Hence Movies You May Have Missed (MYMHM) 2012. MYMHM 2012 Friday, Feb. 15 @ 8 p.m. and […]
MYMHM 2012: Bernie
Recently tagged “most underappreciated film of 2012” by the Los Angeles Times, Bernie (2012) is based on the true story of Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), who befriended and eventually murdered an elderly woman, Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), in Carthage, Texas. We’ve picked it as one of our Movies You May Have Missed […]
John Carter and Literary Archeology
I wrote this post on the literary source of the movie John Carter before it came out. In retrospect, it has more meaning now since many moviegoers complained that John Carter was just a re-hash of other sci-fi movies - especially Avatar. In a way, it’s the other […]
