I stumbled on this one in the Netflix New Release section. Never heard of it, but it sounded interesting. This was one of the better horror films I've seen in a while. It starts out as a very realistic documentary, based on a real episode of Unsolved Mysteries from the mid 90s. It goes sideways from there in a delicious way. Great locations, good enough acting, good music, and great character actors in the documentary parts, especially the sisters. Well done. There's also a couple of good twists at the end. It's somewhat similar to the first Blair Witch movie. I liked it more. The scenes in the fathers dilapidated house were creepy, too. The end sequence where the main character is playing the toy piano was effective, giving me a good case of goosebumps.
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Devil's Backbone, Texas
(2015)
Interesting new take on mock-documentary
10 June 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Let's Make Money
(2008)
Left Wing propaganda
30 November 2013
This movie is nothing but left wing garbage. Third world people of color good. Northern Europeans and Americans bad! Yawn. They take you through all of the poorest parts of the third world, and ignore the growing middle class in all of those countries, of course. Anything that does not support the leftist anti-capitalist viewpoint is left out. Badly put together, out of context comments, moralizing, and so on. Blame for problems placed onto the USA or the World Bank when most of the blame belongs to the "victim" countries and their lousy corrupt governments. Waste of time unless you believe in this far left, anti-capitalist cult of guilt.
The Magic Flute
(2006)
Its all about the music
14 June 2013
I stumbled on this today. It's on Netflix now, which apparently is the first time audiences in the US have had an easy way to see this. I was blown away. I have loved this opera for most of my life, and the interesting setting in WW I was compelling to me. Kudos to Kenneth. But the grandeur of Mozart's music really overshadows everything. Pure genius. Why isn't this easily available in the US? No, it won't make a lot of money at the box office, but there are a lot of people who would end up getting a copy of this on DVD/Blu Ray.....Mozart is very popular and a nice version of one of his best operas in English will do well over the long term. It might even lure some people in who haven't listened to Mozart before. Lets get it out there, guys!
Les Misérables
(2012)
Great version of a great piece of work
13 January 2013
When I heard about this movie coming out, I was really excited. I play in a lot of community theater orchestra pits (I'm a cellist), and I was blessed with the opportunity to play this musical with a very good youth theater group a couple of years ago. Wow, what a great piece of work this musical is. It's an emotional roller coaster to play - parts of it make you tear up so much that it's hard to read the music - LOL. I tend to make kind of a personal bond with certain musicals I've played, and this is one of those (others being Cabaret, Brigadoon, Music Man, West Side Story, and Promises, Promises). This movie version of Les Miserables is really good. The performances are great, especially Hathaway, Jackman, and Daniel Huttlestone (the kid - he was GREAT - it made me cry when Javert pinned the medal on his body). Nods also go to Russell Crowe, who is ALWAYS very good, but had a surprisingly good voice in this film. I feel bad for not mentioning all of the leads - all of them are very good. The younger generation (Cosette and her friends) are all very good - I already knew of Amanda Syfried from other films, but hadn't seen Marius before (Eddie Redmayne) - he was great. I had seen Samantha Barks play Eponine before...her big song in this movie made me lose it. Wow. If you like musicals, this is a must see.
Atlas Shrugged: Part I
(2011)
Atlas Shrugged Part 1 - Great Movie
18 April 2011
Warning: Spoilers
I went into this movie expecting it to be marginal at best, after some of the critical reviews I read. I'm glad I went to see this. It was one of the best movies I've seen in the last few years. It's pretty obvious to me that the movie was reviewed by most "professional" critics based on their political point of view rather than the merits of the movie itself. And of course this plays right into Rand's understanding of the left. The movie is well paced and exciting; there aren't a lot of special effects (mainly just the train), but they are quite effective. The John Galt character is interesting - you don't see his face, and he is always in the shadows, but he is like the grim reaper, pulling one productive genius after another away from the society that does not understand their value. The ending is chilling, and really makes you want to see more. I'll go re-read the book because of this. Acting was quite good, the script was quite good, if a tad preachy (nature of the story, though). The left is smart to try to nip this movie in the bud, but it's not going to work. When this thing gets out into DVD release and Netflix, it's going to get many more people to read Atlas Shrugged, and that is the last thing that the leftist establishment wants.
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