Ramblings on Cinematic Matters
The Berlin Wall came down 30 years ago this fall. To mark the anniversary, let’s look at a movie that takes us all the way back to the days when the Wall was being built, Bridge of Spies (2015), directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Matt Charman and Joel and Ethan Coen. In …
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I have watched Castle in the Sky (1986; aka Laputa: Castle in the Sky) twice now and have had the same reaction both times. During roughly the first half of the movie I felt fairly uninvolved and found myself thinking “Well, there are some nice moments, but overall this is kind of cutesy and tedious.” …
As I begin, I should explain a bit more about the kind of movie blog this will be. While the tag line may refer to “all matters cinematic,” I acknowledge some cinema-related matters are more interesting to me than others. Broadly speaking, this is a blog for movie reviews, including retrospectives on older movies as …
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