For those that love their sassy, carefree detectives… in the continuing quest to have variety in July, I chose a British mystery thriller picture which had been on my Criterion Channel watchlist for awhile now.
The setting is a rural UK hospital in 1944-the year allows for the Germans to frequently bomb the area via air raids. World War II and the German air raids are key plot points, for reasons that won’t be elaborated on. Time is spent getting…
RIP Sam Neill
I can echo the thoughts of everyone who was saddened upon hearing this recent news, especially after remembering that just months before, a cancer remission was announced. Of course, as someone born in ’81 I’ll remember him best as Dr. Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park franchise; that was the first film I saw him in. Only later on did I check out the likes of The Hunt for Red October, Possession, and In the Mouth of…
This movie is still a classic and there are still plenty of people who think that this is gore-soaked when you hardly see any violence for the most part; it's more the low-budget sleazy factor and the great atmosphere and mood that make it unnerving to watch. It's still effective today; if only most of the sequels/remakes/alleged sequels went with this style instead of the direction they turned to.
So, I saw Sinners in 70mm IMAX.
My cinephile street cred just went up, especially considering there are only EIGHT cinemas in the United States which are presenting the movie this way. One happened to be the AutoNation IMAX Theater in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; it is attached to the city’s Museum of Discovery and Science. To pay the bills, they show Hollywood films alongside those IMAX documentaries. Viewing the movie on an 80 by 60 foot screen (24 by 18…
