Tag: Reviews

Classic 1 Star Reviews of Classic Movies — The Wizard of Oz

There’s something funny about people taking the time to write 1 star reviews of classic films, but in this case, the film is both classic and benign: The Wizard of Oz (ranked #10 on the AFI list of best 100 American movies). On with the show: The only reason to ever watch the Wizard of…
Classic 1 Star Reviews of Classic Movies — 2001: A Space Odyssey

Before I even read the one star reviews on Amazon, I knew Stanley Kubrick’s film, 2001: A Space Odyssey was going to be a gold mine. This classic movie gets people upset. Interestingly, among the one-star crowd, it makes people feel stupid. I could have given you pages of accusations of intellectual elitism. On the…
Classic 1 Star Reviews of Classic Movies — Taxi Driver

After last week’s look at Raging Bull, I couldn’t resist another batch of reviews from the one star minds glowering at Taxi Driver (1976), another Martin Scorsese film. Robert DeNiro and Jodie Foster the two most overrated actors, and Cybil Shepard was sleeping with a big Hollywood producer at the time. The actor that should…
Classic 1 Star Reviews of Classic Movies — Raging Bull

I’m just learning how to edit some compelling posts with this new feature. At first I thought all the classics would have great (read: head knocker) one star reviews, but that wasn’t the case with Casablanca. There were no reviews composed on planet I’m-On-My-Meds-I-Really-Am. Here’s a more controversial film, Raging Bull. Now that has to…
Classic 1 Star Reviews of Classic Movies — The Godfather

I have a new feature for you: once or twice a week you’ll find Classic 1 Star Reviews of Classic Movies. People think strange sometimes. They don’t always agree with the movie critics, directors, and the historians that the American Film Institute pulls together to create their top 100 lists [Wikipedia]. Sometimes people are just…
Images Of The 8 Most Modern Libraries in the World

The blog Best Colleges Online has a review of the 25 Most Modern Libraries in the World, which they break out into categories: architecture, technology and innovation, digital collections. But, amazingly, they don’t include any images of the libraries they highlight for architecture. Well, I’ll do it. A couple of notes: all of these images…
Top 7 Boston Red Sox Related Blogs

In honor of #7, The Rooster, here are the 7 best Red Sox related blogs. What makes them the best? I said so, that’s why! Just kidding. These are the best blogs not because they are reporting any new information, but because they offer a unique perspective, are funny, or both. The bottom line is…
Tony Soprano’s last glance

Sunday night was the last time we’re going to see Tony Soprano (probably), and I want to make a brief defense of David Chase and company for how they decided to end the program. I’ve read and heard all the people who are upset at the way Chase ended The Sopranos, and that reaction has…
Reviewing the new Apple Website: Overall

Apple has a new Website. The last time they had a major redesign was in 2001, coinciding with the release of OS 10.0 (you can review a lot of Apple homepage images on Flickr). Over the next couple of days I’ll review the different features and accessibility of the site, including the footer, main menu,…
The Rockford Files, Season One DVD

The character of James Rockford (Jim, Jimbo, Jimmy, or Rockfish to his friends) was one of the few television characters that appealed to me when I was a kid. Jim Rockford, the anti-hero, was someone a lot of people could probably identify with; for the most part Rockford was a regular guy with money problems,…
Movie Review: Fight Club

I have only one interesting thing to write about Fight Club (1999), which has been written about many, many, many times before. Briefly, I want to say a few things about the DVD, and about DVDs in general.I have a small but growing DVD collection. I add to the collection based upon two criteria: 1)…
Movie Literate After Watching 102 Films

I first saw this list on Kottke.org, but film critic Jim Emerson started it all with his list of 102 films that a literate film goer had to see, or as he wrote, “they were the movies you just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed…