Posts Tagged ‘roger ebert’
The Stream | Vol. IV
The Stream is a new column that acts as a venue for Filmdogs writers to post shorter reviews of movies they have watched on streaming video services such as Netflix, Hulu, or even YouTube. Let’s get started.
Black Narcissus (1947)
Written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Black Narcissus is a film so spectacular, I am saddened that it has taken me this long to watch it. Deborah Kerr plays Sister Clodagh, the head nun in charge of leading a group of her fellow sisters to a palace in the Himalayas and setting up a school. Black Narcissus has heavily influenced both Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and in Scorsese’s Shutter Island there is a fantastic reference to this film. In 1947, the flashback scenes of Kerr’s character were banned by the Catholic Legion of Decency, and I am still amazed that this film was made at all. Watching these nuns questioning their faith and sanity is quite unnerving and the tension drips in every scene. Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron as Sister Ruth are exceptionally great as rivals of good and evil. This is an amazingly haunting film.
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The Stream | Vol. 2
The Stream is a new column that acts a venue for Filmdogs writers to post shorter reviews of movies they have watched on streaming video services such as Netflix, Hulu, or even YouTube. Let’s get started.
Goodbye Solo
Two men form an unlikely friendship that will change both of their lives forever.
Sometimes a film is so much more than it’s synopsis, such is the case with the indie masterpiece Goodbye Solo. The story, which takes place in Winston-Salem NC is simple. An old and weathered man named William pays a cab driver from Senegal named Solo to pick him on up a certain date and take him to a mountain peak outside of town. Yet, he never mentions being driven on a trip home. This fact immediately bothers the curious and friendly Solo who begins to take an interest in William’s life. William warms to Solo and his family, and you can see he harbors some great pain, but can he be saved? Read the rest of this entry »
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 9 – Podcasts Are Forever
The Pack is Back! In our 9th installment, we discuss Joss Whedon taking the helm for The Avengers movie, the trouble surrounding the next James Bond film and the controversy surrounding Roger Ebert’s Kick Ass review.
For the main topic we discuss satires in film history, including: Dr. Strangelove, American Psycho, M.A.S.H., Network, A Clockwork Orange, American Beauty and many more.
The One-Liner of the week is from the 1985 classic, Back to the Future; make sure to tune in to see just which line it might be.
“Keep your opinions to yourself” | An analysis of user reviews
This morning, I had a brief notion to include user reviews on the comments section of Filmdogs on our review posts. I started to research plugins for WordPress (the software that powers this site) and found one related to a little website called Blippr. Go ahead! Check out the link and see what it’s all about. That’s what I did. But be warned…it may lead you down a dark path of confusion and self-doubt.
So! Let’s get on with it shall we? Right.
