Rating the Nominees, Group 7, #10
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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The DVD Report #23
Last week, I briefly mentioned the 50th Anniversary Edition of Funny Face, which I’ve now seen. Restored from the original negative, the film looks stunning. One of the most gorgeous films ever made, previous home video editions have been so washed out and ugly anyone discovering the film for the first time on VHS or…
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Film Preview: Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: The poster is certainly patriotic and undeniably a part of an artistic style popular during Carter’s presidency. However, the poster doesn’t give the audience more than a cursory idea what the film’s about,…
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Film Preview: Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C+; B Review: This poster has very little to do with the film, at least as far as the trailer is concerned. Afraid of what might occur if they put the title or any other…
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Film Preview: Slipstream (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: After watching the trailer, the poster feels more apropos than it might otherwise be. The chaos of the streams of consciousness flowing from Anthony Hopkins’ head are fitting, though the colors are a…
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Film Preview: Finishing the Game (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: The brightness of the yellow doesn’t have a thematic association with the production. The various individuals on the poster in “kung fu” positions is more closely aligned and the faint image of Bruce…
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Film Preview: Mama’s Boy (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section will be updated. Trailer Rating: D+ Review: Nearly everything about this trailer is offensive to…
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The DVD Report #22
Gross-out comedies don’t win Oscars but they do have a rich tradition in film…that is to say they make lots of money. Starting with National Lampoon’s Animal House in 1978, the genre basically was about, and generally appealed to, adolescent boys and grown men in arrested adolescence. In the 1980s, films in the genre included…
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Film Preview: Protagonist (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: I think perhaps the modern trend of one-color posters with hand-drawn (possibly computer drawn) images may have gne overboard. This style is most present in documentary posters which have included those for King…
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Film Preview: Lake of Fire (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B Review: Further typifing the film’s struggle to pick sides, the Lake of Fire title, being inverted (and in the preview inverted across an image of the cross) may be symbolic of where the piece…
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Film Preview: Juno (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C-; C Review: This poster tries too hard to be funny when the film looks more like a dark comedy. The light comedy design of the poster may entice the wrong crowd who will come…
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Film Preview: Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C Review: The poster makes this film look like more like Oh, God than a drama. There are no comic touches to the trailer, which does not mean there won’t be in the film itself.…
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Film Preview: Pathology (2008)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in the future, this section will be updated. Trailer Rating: B- Review: Although it looks a bit like a horror-thriller,…
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Film Preview: Control (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: B- Review: I’m entirely uncertain as to the meaning of the color pink attached to the poster unless it’s exemplary of the punk era (a style of music I’m limited familiar with). The black-and-white-and-brooding of…
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The DVD Report #21
The movie musical has a long history going back to the first talking film, The Jazz Singer . In the first few years of the talkies it seemed every other film was a musical, from 1928’s The Singing Fool to 1929’s The Broadway Melody , Applause , The Love Parade and Hallelujah to 1930’s Under…
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Film Preview: The Final Season (2007)
Trailers (Due to age, may no longer be available) Posters (Due to age, may no longer be available) Poster Rating: C- Review: Can this poster look any more like a Walt Disney film? It’s reminiscent of every hackneyed sports melodrama to have a poster drawn up for it. Trailer Rating: C- Review: With Sean Astin…
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