Somehow, by some strange miracle, the resulting film tastes like something wholly original and real damn delicious.
Todd Wofford
[su_dropcap size="5"]F[/su_dropcap]irst Cow plays like a strange study in contrasts. It's unassumingly quiet, and yet audaciously ambitious in creative reach. The story moves at a deliberately languid pace, but it's still fascinating to watch. Some people will read this review, watch this movie, and wonder how in the hell I could put those four stars next…
Relic is a rarity in the horror genre. It depicts real people who say and do things for human reasons.
[su_dropcap size="5"]I[/su_dropcap]t was March 25th, 1985, and the 57th Academy Awards were in full swing. As Linda Hunt dutifully ran through the nominees for Best Supporting Actor, the production hit a snag on the penultimate name: Haing S. Ngor (rhymes with floor), the Cambodian-born doctor who starred in The Killing Fields, hadn't made it to the…
Greyhound represents a successful attempt to boil away unneeded ingredients and reduce the experience of war down to its essence.
It was like watching Wile E. Coyote climb into one of his homemade catapults, where feelings of disaster and dread are just part of the experience.
As long as you can just power off your brain, relax, and surrender to this film’s powerful sense of goofiness, you might find yourself in a junk food coma, as well.
No movie could truly capture the Shakespearean scope of those few days, but Gettysburg does much to bottle the mind-boggling fury for public consumption.
