The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)
It’s hilarious, of course, Scorsese finally won an Oscar for the film least like his work. The Departed is the really serious movie Mel Gibson and Richard Donner never got around to making in the late...
View ArticleEdge of Darkness (2010, Martin Campbell)
One joke–just to start. One. Was anti-Semitism a requirement for appearing in Edge of Darkness? Ok. I’m done. Mel’s return to the screen (pause–people actually saw Signs) tries hard to not be the...
View ArticleThe Town (2010, Ben Affleck), the extended cut
Affleck’s directorial abilities are impressive. He’s got a great sense of composition–he seats his actors on either end of the Panavision frame, leaving this great space of emptiness between them....
View ArticleDark Shadows (2012, Tim Burton)
With Dark Shadows, director Burton and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith find a great formula for humor in the film, which has a lot of inherent humor in just taking place in 1972 and having vampire...
View ArticleDark Shadows (2012, Tim Burton)
With Dark Shadows, director Burton and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith find a great formula for humor in the film, which has a lot of inherent humor in just taking place in 1972 and having vampire...
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