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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
Maybe it was the viewing atmosphere… I also was obsessing about something I’d read from either Spielberg or Lucas claiming credit for “MTV-style” editing with Raiders. Once the film was edited, the two...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
Don Siegel had an anecdote about the length of titles. He showed them to his boss, who kept asking for them to be longer, then showed them to the boss again, telling him each time he’d made the...
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988, Dwight H. Little)
While still bad, Halloween 4 is better than I ever expected. It’s barely ninety minutes and forty or so minutes are of people in crisis, which passes the time fairly well. It takes place in an...
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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995, Joe Chappelle), the producer’s cut
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers spends about twenty minutes resolving the previous movie in the series and, gingerly, setting up the characters for this one. Chappelle sets these events to a...
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Halloween H20 (1998, Steve Miner)
Halloween H20 is a mishmash. It’s a sequel to a seventies slasher movie, it’s a post-modern slasher movie of the Scream variety, it’s a thoughtful sequel, it’s a somewhat successful rumination on...
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Without a Clue (1988, Thom E. Eberhardt)
Without a Clue has an amusing premise–what if Sherlock Holmes is a buffoon and Dr. Watson is the genius–and generally succeeds in executing it. Director Eberhardt brings very little to the film (one...
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988, Dwight H. Little)
While still bad, Halloween 4 is better than I ever expected. It’s barely ninety minutes and forty or so minutes are of people in crisis, which passes the time fairly well. It takes place in an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995, Joe Chappelle), the producer’s cut
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers spends about twenty minutes resolving the previous movie in the series and, gingerly, setting up the characters for this one. Chappelle sets these events to a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Without a Clue (1988, Thom E. Eberhardt)
Without a Clue has an amusing premise–what if Sherlock Holmes is a buffoon and Dr. Watson is the genius–and generally succeeds in executing it. Director Eberhardt brings very little to the film (one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995, Joe Chappelle)
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers doesn’t even run ninety minutes and gets boring fast; the last twenty minutes are completely mind-numbing. Nothing makes sense, characters act without motive,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988, Dwight H. Little)
While still bad, Halloween 4 is better than I ever expected. It’s barely ninety minutes and forty or so minutes are of people in crisis, which passes the time fairly well. It takes place in an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995, Joe Chappelle), the producer’s cut
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers spends about twenty minutes resolving the previous movie in the series and, gingerly, setting up the characters for this one. Chappelle sets these events to a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995, Joe Chappelle)
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers doesn’t even run ninety minutes and gets boring fast; the last twenty minutes are completely mind-numbing. Nothing makes sense, characters act without motive,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988, Dwight H. Little)
While still bad, Halloween 4 is better than I ever expected. It’s barely ninety minutes and forty or so minutes are of people in crisis, which passes the time fairly well. It takes place in an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995, Joe Chappelle), the producer’s cut
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers spends about twenty minutes resolving the previous movie in the series and, gingerly, setting up the characters for this one. Chappelle sets these events to a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995, Joe Chappelle)
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers doesn’t even run ninety minutes and gets boring fast; the last twenty minutes are completely mind-numbing. Nothing makes sense, characters act without motive,...
View ArticleRaiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
Maybe it was the viewing atmosphere… I also was obsessing about something I’d read from either Spielberg or Lucas claiming credit for “MTV-style” editing with Raiders. Once the film was edited, the two...
View ArticleRaiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
Don Siegel had an anecdote about the length of titles. He showed them to his boss, who kept asking for them to be longer, then showed them to the boss again, telling him each time he’d made the...
View ArticleA Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012, Crispian Mills and Chris Hopewell)
It’s so easy to pick on A Fantastic Fear of Everything there’s basically no fun in it. The only thing worse than co-director Crispian Mills’s script is his and Chris Hopewell’s direction. For the first...
View ArticleA Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012, Crispian Mills and Chris Hopewell)
It’s so easy to pick on A Fantastic Fear of Everything there’s basically no fun in it. The only thing worse than co-director Crispian Mills’s script is his and Chris Hopewell’s direction. For the first...
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