Our Hospitality is Buster Keaton's take on Romeo and Juliet. It's a rather loose retelling of famous play, it mainly copies main concept, love between members of feuding families, and applies on Keaton comedies.
For a silent comedy, film opens on a surprisingly dark and serious scene of showdown that kills one member of McKay family and one of Canfield family. Keaton and his co-director John G. Blystone have made this into rather suspenseful scene of buildup to the shootout,…
Many people unfamiliar with Hitchcock's work consider him horror director first and foremost, even if most of his work is centered on thrillers. Than again two of his most famous works, Psycho and The Birds, are considered horror classic, but usually as lighter horror films. To me even those two movies are in many ways standard Hitchcock thrillers, but with scare factor added to usual thrill factor. Same can be said about his third, lesser known horror Frenzy, in many…
One scene everyone remember from A Few Good Men is “You can’t handle the truth” climax of the movie and it all honesty it is a great moment. Great acting from Nicholson and Cruise and Sorkin’s quotable lines make this moment very powerful and only moment when that movie is truly exceptional. However for my purposes only one part of moment matters, the words of Nicholson’s Colonel:
[...]Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those have to…
The Wind Rises is a messy movie with questionable morals. But before I come to the bad stuff, I will say that animation was great in the same way in was in my previous encounters with Miyazaki(Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke).
Even before I saw this movie I knew that this movie could easily fail in the way its representation of Joro, creatorr of Zero. In the movie he is an artist who is obsessed with creating the best plane,…
