He’s a fun thing a friend passed on to me, contributor J Blake. Pick 10 movies. They don’t have to be good, or groundbreaking. You don’t even have to like them anymore. But these 10 movies are films that really sculpted you into who you are today, and really had an affect on you growing up. […]
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The Podwits Challenge: 10 Films that Molded You
Posted: 30th January 2013 by Dion in Film, Film Review, Up on The Soap BoxTags: A Night to Remember, Charles Laughton, Dirty Harry, James Cagney, Randy Jurgensen, Sorcerer, The Black Hole, The Last Man on Earth, The Muppet Movie, The Night of the Hunter, the terminator, The Untouchables, Transformers the Movie, Wages of Fear
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Jessica Chastain Takes Charge in the Taut, Stark and Unconventional Zero Dark Thirty
Posted: 27th December 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Greig Fraser, Jessica Chastain, Karthryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Oscars, Point Break, Seal Team Six, Strange Days, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty
Review by Luke Whitmire Twenty five years ago in the genesis of her career, a young Kathryn Bigelow was a protege to a high caliber filmmaker (James Cameron), and she soon became a great visionary for directing big-budget action films. She started her career as a filmmaker whose work consisted only in the artifice realm. […]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Posted: 17th December 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Cate Blanchet, Christopher Lee, Gollum, Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Martin Freeman, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit
Review by Luke Whitmire The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey takes place sixty years before the events of The Lord of the Rings. The Rings trilogy was a dynamic, pulsating fantasy story that roused audiences, and changed the landscape for epic spectacles. A brief history: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again—better known by its abbreviated […]
Killing Them Softly Is A Vicious, Sordid and Violent Darwinian Blood-Sport
Posted: 3rd December 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Andrew Dominik, Ben Mendelsohn, Brad Pitt, Johnny Cash, Killing Them Softly, Obama, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, Scoot McNairy
Review by Luke Whitmire The plot goes like this: Two lowlife, crack-addict, brain-dead criminals (Scoot McNairy & Ben Mendelsohn) are recruited to knock off Markie Trattman’s (Ray Liotta) high-stakes underground casino. A porcine thug who has knocked off one of his own games in the past and got away with it, Markie knows he […]
Silver Linings Playbook Will Make You Feel Great About Life and Relationships When the End Credits Role
Posted: 30th November 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Bradley Cooper, Brea Bee, Chris Tucker, David O. Russell, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro, Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter
Review by Luke Whitmire The masterful David O. Russell directs another enthralling and compelling oddball drama that centers on a bipolar son and his dysfunctional family. In the hands of Russell, Hollywood’s brilliant humanist filmmaker, Silver Linings Playbook is easily the best romantic comedy of the year. Like his 2010 The Fighter, Russell’s subject […]
Flight soars with Verisimilitude.
Posted: 27th November 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Back To The Future, Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Flight, Forest Gump, John Goodman, Robert Zeme, What Lies Beneath?, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Review by Luke Whitmire Robert Zemeckis returns to live-action filmmaking after 10 years with Flight, another instant classic on par with his previous cinema- Forest Gump, Back to the Future, What Lies Beneath and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. An absorbing, sophisticated morality play that accentuates real life issues.
Life of Pi is Technically Adept, Wonderfully Entertaining and Thematically Cogent.
Posted: 23rd November 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Alexander Schmemann, Ang Lee, Avatar, Ayush Tandon, Faith, God, James Cameron, Peter Pau, Yann Martel
Review by Luke Whitmire Ang Lee, that great chameleon among contemporary directors, confects a visual marvel about a shipwrecked teenage boy stranded with a Bengal tiger on a life boat. Lee weaves a compelling, enchanting fable from Yann Martel’s best-selling novel of the same title published in 2001 that sold over 7 million copies. Like […]
Skyfall is the Next Evolution in Bond
Posted: 13th November 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: 007, Batman, Bruce Wayne, Christopher Nolan, Daniel Craig, James Bond, Javier, Judi Dench, Roger Deakins, Sam Mendes, Skyfall, The Dark Knight, The Joker
Review by Luke Whitmire James Bond celebrates his fiftieth year on the big screen, and we are introduced to all the elements that make the mythology so endearing: the gadgets, the beautiful girls, the exotic locations, and the eccentric villains. Skyfall is the 23rd movie in the most successful film series of all time, and what […]
Argo is a Profound, Effective, and Affectionate Caper Film that Weaves an Emotional Catharsis.
Posted: 2nd November 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Alan Arkin, Argo, Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Kyle Chandler, Luke Whitmire
Review by Luke Whitmire In his third film, Argo, actor-director Ben Affleck devises one of the most compelling, rip-roaring Hollywood thrillers to be put on celluloid, complete with fascinating elements of romance, action, comic relief, and a stylistic homage on par with Sydney Lumet’s classic films. Affleck’s Argo is as taut and intelligent as Lumet’s indelible classic, […]
Halloween II…Still The Night “He” Came Home
Posted: 30th October 2012 by J. Blake in Film, Film ReviewTags: Blu-ray Review, Donald Pleasance, Film, Film Review, Halloween, Halloween 2, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter
One could argue that few film franchises are more polarizing among horror fans than the HALLOWEEN series and of the installments featuring Michael Myers, it is HALLOWEEN II that is, perhaps, the most controversial. Considered by some to be a worthy follow-up to its now legendary predecessor and by others to be a steamy pile […]