In my piece on Hugo, I struggled with this word “masterpiece.” How would you know if you saw a masterpiece? How many viewings would it take before you were sure? In my lifetime, I’ve had the suspicion that a movie I just watched could be considered a masterpiece. Sometimes time and the critical consensus bore [...]
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Movie Review: THE TREE OF LIFE (2011).
Posted: December 29, 2011 in Dinosaurs, Movies (T), Terrence Malick0
31 FLAVORS OF HORROR #20: CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954).
Posted: October 24, 2011 in 31 Flavors Of Horror, Boats, Classics, Clint, Dinosaurs, Monsters, Movies (C), Pretty Girls, Sci-FiThe Creature From The Black Lagoon is the last of the major Universal monsters. Creature From The Black Lagoon was released in 1954, over twenty years after Universal introduced Frankenstein’s Monster, his Bride, the Mummy, the Invisble Man, and Count Dracula, and over ten years later than the Wolf Man (longer if you count the [...]
A TRIBUTE: Ray Harryhausen.
Posted: June 30, 2010 in Dinosaurs, Monsters, Movies, Skeletons., TributesPlease read this 90th birthday tribute to the man who brought us the greatest movie scene in recorded history. Yesterday was Ray Harryhausen’s 90th birthday. Isn’t it way nicer to celebrate a legend’s birth, rather than waiting too long and having to cover the opposite? Ray Harryhausen is an anomaly in film history – he’s a [...]
