A Quiet Place
2018. PG-13. 90 minutes. No, this isn’t an article about libraries. Contrary to popular belief, libraries are NOT quiet. Still, my instinctual shushing urges that I honed in library school attracted me to this movie. I really wanted to like it. It had a great concept: A science fiction/horror world where blind aliens have the ability to track and kill people using sound. Using the absence of sound is a great motif of classic...
Mandy
2018. 121 minutes. NR. If you have read my previous gushing post about my buddy Nic Cage, you would know that I went into this movie just knowing that Nicholas Cage was in it and he loses his shit. I had no idea what the movie was about anymore than that. I was not disappointed. Mandy is a fantastical journey, part heavy metal music video, part acid trip, part Lord of the Rings…you just need to get through the first 30-45...
The Goonies
1985. 114 minutes. Rated TV-14. Quote: Goonies never say die…. It never gets old. It never gets tired. It’s never boring. You neverremember everything that happens, and you always sing Cindy Lauper’s The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough. (I listened while I wrote this, so maybe you should listen while you read it) Cause Goonies never say die. Where to begin? There is just so much in here. Famed movie men Steven...
The Princess of Montpensier
2010. 139 minutes. unrated. In the midst of the Catholic/Protestant wars of the 16th century, a woman marries against her wishes and tries to put her husband’s cousin out of her mind; she’s successful until they encounter one another at Court. I love period films with focused attention to detail. I’m a sucker for unrequited love. And, okay, I might also have a thing for movies where girls are forced to marry against their will, and...
The Happytime Murders
And now a review from one of my best friends from College, the one and only, Chris Chipman. 2018. 91 minutes. Rated R Quote: Less Feebles, more Smoochy… and that’s a good thing! !!! Warning, this movie is not for children!!! (I feel obligated to say this although the trailers have done a good job of it…) I want to start by getting this out of the way. If you haven’t seen Meet the Feebles, a 1989 film from Lord of the Rings Maestro...
Enemy Mine
108 minutes. Rated PG-13. “Earthman, your Mickey Mouse is one big stupid dope!” Based on the award-winning 1979 novella by Barry B. Longyear and directed by Wolfgang Petersen (notably of Das Boot and The NeverEnding Story fame) Enemy Mine is one of my favorite hard science fiction movies from the 1980’s. I call it hard sci-fi simply for the excellent examples of xenobiology, the alien flora and fauna, and the detailed creation of...
