• Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Soylent Green (637/364)

    by  • 12/30/2011 • film • 0 Comments

    STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE – Other than the central V’GER plot which was novel, this is one long, boring movie. The dialogue and acting is shockingly bad – worse than the original series was, so could it be the director to blame here? There are elements of the film that feel like it’s little [...]

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    Tree of Life, West Side Story, Goliath (362/212)

    by  • 7/31/2011 • movies • 0 Comments

    TREE OF LIFE (Lightbox) – Shortly after it opened at Cannes, I read about how unusual its reception was; with a pretty divided audience; people BOOED? Reviews called it pretentious, full of itself, and even worse. Reviewers went to lengths describing how this was a film about faith in the religious sense… I stopped reading [...]

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