Goodfellas Pros: Everything Cons: Nothing (This review originally appeared in slightly different form on Epinions.com.) I always hate it when people ask me what my favorite movie is. There are so many that I love it’s hard to narrow it down to just one. But if I were ever to travel to a desert island […]
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Unlucky 13 by James Patterson Pros: a bit of excitement here and there Cons: but definitely not the best of the series In general, I enjoy James Patterson’s The Women’s Murder Club series. But Unlucky 13 really lives up to its name as it was pretty awful. Four women who pull their talents together to solve crimes. Lindsay the […]
Detachment (2011) Pros: acting Cons: directing, editing Considering that British director Tony Kaye is best known for frequent and fierce clashes with Edward Norton over the 1998 “American History X” (for which Norton was nominated for an Oscar), it is surprising that Kaye could assemble the acting talent he did for “Detachment” (2011), starting with […]
Revolver-The Beatles Pros: Maybe the greatest album ever. Cons: Nada. (Note: Review originally appeared on Epinions) Around the beginning of the 2000s VH1 did a listing of the greatest albums of all-time. The number one pick was Revolver by The Beatles. Is it the greatest of all-time? Better than Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue? That […]
Dias contados (1994) Pros: Gómez, Bardem, gratuitous female nudity Cons: nihilism The Spanish “Running Out of Time,” “Días contados” (1994; there is also a 1999 Hong Kong one that I like better; “Numbered Days” is a more literal translation of “Días contados”) to have been made to show Ruth Gabriel’s body. Except for the bottom […]