Category Archives: Film review

Film Reviews 17: “No Strings Attached”, “It’s Complicated”, “Aliens”, “The Seventh Seal” and 24 others…

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Nick Chen

This month: “Aliens”, “Anchorman”, “Blue Velvet”, “Chungking Express”, “Crash”, “Diggers,” “Dirty Pretty Things”, “Frankie and Johnny”, “Howl’s Moving Castle”, “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark”, “It’s Complicated”, “Junebug”, “Kind Hearts and Coronets”, “Laputa: Castle in the Sky”, … Continue reading →

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Every Lars von Trier film reviewed

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Nick Chen

Films reviewed: The Element of Crime (1984), Epidemic (1987), Europa (1991), Breaking the Waves (1996), The Idiots (1998), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), Manderlay (2005), The Boss of it All (2006), Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011) and Nymphomaniac (2014). … Continue reading →

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Film Reviews 16: “The Green Hornet”, “The Fountain”, “Kiki’s Delivery Service” and 18 others…

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Nick Chen

This month: “Alien”, “Apocalypse Now” (pictured above), “The Brothers Bloom”, “The Cat’s Meow”, “City Island”, “Eagle vs Shark”, “The Fountain”, “The Green Hornet”, “It’s Kind of a Funny Story”, “Kiki’s Delivery Service”, “The Last Picture Show”, “Marie Antoinette”, “The Oh … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Anna Boden, Billy Kent, Bryan Singer, Darren Aronofsky, David Wain, Eli Craig, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Hayao Miyazaki, James Gunn, Jim Abrahams, Michel Gondry, Peter Bogdanovich, Raymond De Felitta, Rian Johnson, Ridley Scott, Ryan Fleck, Sofia Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Taika Waititi, Tony McNamara | 3 Comments

Film Reviews 15: “The King’s Speech”, “12 Monkeys”, “The Trotsky” and 14 others…

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Nick Chen

This month: “12 Monkeys”, “Art School Confidential”, “Charlie Bartlett”, “Cracks” (pictured above), “Dick”, “Drugstore Cowboy”, “Far From Heaven”, “Fetching Cody”, “Fired Up!”, “Josie and the Pussycats”, “Just Buried”, “The King’s Speech”, “Lonesome Jim”, “Modern Romance”, “Smart People”, “Strike!” and “The … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Albert Brooks, Andrew Fleming, Chaz Thorne, David Ray, Deborah Kaplans, Gus Van Sant, Harry Elfont, Jacob Tierney, Jon Poll, Noam Murro, Sarah Kernochan, Steve Buscemi, Terry Gilliam, Terry Zwigoff, Todd Haynes, Tom Hooper, Will Gluck | 1 Comment

Film Reviews 14: “Never Let Me Go”, “Enter the Void”, “Days of Heaven”, “Blue Valentine” and 21 others…

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Nick Chen

This month: “A Woman Under the Influence”, “All About My Mother”, “American Graffiti”, “Assassination of a High School President”, “Badlands”, “Blue Valentine”, “Broadcast News”, “Crimewave”, “Days of Heaven” (pictured above), “Enter the Void”, “Following”, “Howard Stern’s Private Parts”, “Lost and … Continue reading →

Posted in Film review | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alexis Dos Santos, Betty Thomas, Brett Simon, Christopher Nolan, Coen brothers, Derek Cianfrance, Gaspar Noé, George Lucas, Greg Mottola, James L Brooks, John Cassavettes, Josh Gordon, Léa Pool, Mark Romanek, Pedro Almodóvar, Roger Mitchell, Sam Raimi, Shane Meadows, Terrence Malick, Will Speck, Yasujirō Ozu | Leave a comment