More movie reviews. Many spoilers, especially for SPIDER-MAN 2.
TROY
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
The first trailers for TROY came out last December. I remember rolling my eyes and then quipping, “The face that launched a thousand CGI ships.” I then spent the months leading up to the release of it expecting it to be sad and terrible, [...]
I’m working in reverse chronological order through a huge backlog of reviews I’ve meant to write but never got around to, for basically all the movies I’ve seen since this spring.
In today’s installment, I analyze a comedy to such a degree that it can’t possibly be funny any more, if it ever was. Numerous jokes [...]
Two more movie reviews. The second contains a number of spoilers, because I propose a theory about the movie and cite evidence in support of it.
LOCAL HERO (1983)
Written and Directed by Bill Forsyth
During a conversation about movies the other day, mentioned that his favorite is LOCAL HERO. It prompted me to think hard about [...]