Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The movie industry was in transition in 1980 – away from the auteur-driven seventies golden era and towards the age of the eighties blockbuster. Ringing out the old guard were duds like Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, which became shorthand for out-of-control directorial hubris and Robert Altman’s Popeye which made a better soundtrack than a film. Representing [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The decade that’s ending has the ignominy of following the 1990’s, an era that will be looked back on as a creative peak rivaling the 1970’s for cinema. This is not to say the 00’s sucked as there were some great films and wonderful talents that emerged all over the world.
Pixar proved that the Toy [...]
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Every year at this time, we here at Mallination try to bring you a new list of Thanksgiving Turkeys – films so bad they can only be compared to a dumb, flightless, tasty, “jive” bird. As an added bonus I’ve invited guest blogger Sean McDonald to contribute his own list of 5 to my list [...]
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The image of a squarefaced old man dragging his hovering house behind him through a dreamscape jungle feels pulled straight out of the deepest Fruedian recesses of the unconscious. Pixar’s latest triumph, Up , is packed with such images, along with the considerable voice talent Ed Asner as the old guy, Carl Fredrickson.
Here’s the last installment of my flashback to the best movies of 1968. You can find Part One and Part Two here.
11. The Lion in WinterIn the previous post I wrote about the feminist message inherent in Rachel, Rachel, Rosemary’s Baby and Funny Girl. The Lion in Winter joins the parade led by the indomitable [...]
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