Like the best of the funny Cohen Brothers movies, this has several laugh-out-loud moments, along with some random quirky stuff. I loved the set design and the bits of movies we get to see.* [...]
There are things I like* and don’t like** about Mr. Tarantino. I was excited to see this movie in 70mm UltraPanavision and for the first two-thirds I was reconsidering my anti-Tarantino [...]
My expectations were low going in and indeed, this is a long, slow movie broken up with some good dancing now and then. Characters from the earlier film* are fleshed out** and there is a [...]
I brought this movie along as a palette cleanser, because I knew the subject matter of the first film would not be to the fellow Borah alum’s taste. Plus, when I first watched this movie I [...]
While not as funny as the first time I watched it, (the surprise factor was gone) I still enjoyed this sequel making fun of sequels. This time I greatly anticipated the Mr. & Mrs. Smith [...]
I found myself asking “I wonder how they did that?” often while viewing this and eventually concluded I would have better enjoyed watching a “making of” feature about this [...]
Much like Force Majeure, this movie gives ample time to examine all quadrants of the movie screen in each scene. Unlike Force Majuere, this was a slow and interesting film, most probably [...]
There were many things to love about this movie: the Mexican folk tale; the underworld; the fact it was incredibly pretty to look at. However, I didn’t see large sections of it, [...]