The film press can hardly be impervious to trends or fads, I suppose. After all, those who are chosen to comment on current cinema have an audience to consider, and the current time and place presumably serve as lens and mirror in determining what is “good” and “bad” among the given week’s offerings. Perhaps that [...]
Entries from July 2006
Lady In The Water
July 31st, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: Director · Drama · Sci-Fi/Fantasy · Thriller
Jarhead
July 23rd, 2006 · No Comments
Sometimes low expectations aren’t enough to make a bad movie enjoyable. Even though Jarhead wasn’t well received, I understood it to have some good performances despite the material. Perhaps that is true. Peter Sarsgaard is a very talented actor, and Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Foxx, while possessing nary the range or sublety of Sargsaard, have [...]
Tags: Biographical · War
Cache (Hidden)
July 14th, 2006 · 1 Comment
A quick search reveals that no one has yet to write a biography or analysis of the work of Michael Haneke, whose tenth feature film, Cache, brought him the best director award at the 2005 Cannes festival. For my money, he is among the most talented directors today, and an artist whose work displays something [...]
Tags: Director · Foreign Language · Thriller
Site improvements underway
July 7th, 2006 · No Comments
I am switching site management software (from Blogger to WordPress) to provide richer content (searching and categories, for starters). The site now actually resides at cinemamishmash.com. However, until the transition is complete, the old posts are still available at hundleylaw.com/cinema.
The old posts are now imported here, but there are a few formatting tweeks to be [...]
Tags: Site News
Superman Returns
July 3rd, 2006 · No Comments
I had Superman Underoos. There, I’ve said it. No, there’s more. I loved those Superman Underoos. By some magical twist of fate, my mother was given a pair of red snow boots one Christmas before I was born, and we had a red bath towel, so I didn’t just have Superman Underoos. I was Superman. [...]
Tags: Comic Book · Popcorn
The Da Vinci Code
July 3rd, 2006 · No Comments
I don’t consume much popular fiction (unless it has been adapted to the screen), although I did read a couple books last week while on vacation, battery life on the laptop being what it is and with the annoying lack of electrical outlets on the beach. So I was not among the millions who saw [...]
Here are this morning’s Oscar-nominated films, alphabetically. The nominees for foreign language film and documentary feature are compiled at the end of the list. (Short format nominees are listed in a 
