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Review: Piranha 3-D (directed by Alexandre Aja)
Yesterday, I had two concerns about going to see the new horror film, Piranha 3-D. First off, I know that 3-D has been hailed as “the future of movies” and that apparently, Webster’s is considering...
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A Quickie With Lisa Marie: I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (dir....
Despite only appearing in 5 films and dying 8 years before I was born, John Cazale is one of my favorite actors. You might not recognize his name but, if you love the films of the 70s, you know who...
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A Quickie With Lisa Marie: Red (dir. by Robert Schwentke)
Red (which I saw at the dollar theater this previous Monday) is a lot like the boy who took you to Homecoming: likable, occasionally enjoyable, but ultimately rather forgettable. It’s a movie that you...
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Scenes I Love: Jaws
“You know the thing about a shark, he’s got…lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eye. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white.” —...
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Back to School #13: American Graffiti (dir by George Lucas)
Well, this is certainly intimidating. I know I’ve said this many time before but it deserves to be repeated: it’s often a hundred times more difficult to review a great film than it is to review a...
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Shattered Politics #56: The American President (dir by Rob Reiner)
Way back in October, around the same time that I first decided that I would do a series of reviews of political films and that I would call it Lisa Gets Preachy (subsequently changed to Shattered...
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Shattered Politics #59: Night Falls on Manhattan (dir by Sidney Lumet)
Oddly enough, right after I watched City Hall, I watched yet another 1997 film about politics and police corruption in New York. And while Night Falls on Manhattan is definitely not one of Sidney...
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Lisa Watches An Oscar Nominee: The Goodbye Girl (dir by Herbert Ross)
After I watched San Francisco, I decided to watch yet another film that I had DVRed during TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar. I had several films to choose from and I ultimately decided to watch the 1977 best...
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Lisa Reviews An Oscar-Nominated Horror Film: Jaws (dir by Steven Spielberg)
There’s little that is more intimidating than trying to write a review of the 1975 best picture nominee, Jaws. I mean, seriously, what’s left to be said about this film? Jaws is one of those movies...
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Worst of the Worst: Mad Dog Time (1996, directed by Larry Bishop)
Remember how, in the 1990s, every aspiring indie director tried to rip off Quentin Tarantino by making a gangster film that mixed graphic violence with quirky dialogue, dark comedy, and obscure pop...
View ArticleA Big Screen, Some Popcorn, and JAWS (Universal 1975)
Originally posted on cracked rear viewer: Dun-dun, dun-dun, dun-dun, dun-dun….. This past Wednesday night, I went out to New Bedford’s Zeiterion Theater to watch a screening of the summertime classic...
View ArticleNobody Can Stop Gina Carano In The Trailer For Daughter Of The Wolf!
Seriously, Gina Carano kicks so much ass! She managed to survive starring in one of Steven Soderbergh’s worst films and has gone on to become one of my favorite action movie stars. Though she may be...
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