Hello.
For thirty seconds at the beginning of 2014 it looked like I’d be updating this blog more. Doing more writing that wasn’t necessarily something I needed to sell. Short things I wanted to get off my chest, but longer than a tweet or a Facebook update.
Well, it didn’t happen. When you write for a living in a deadline/freelance capacity, writing for “fun” is just about the last thing you want to do. Unless it is building toward some sort of nebulous, off-in-the-distance amorphous BIG PROJECT that you know some day you will eventually conquer even if for now you have no idea what it is. And that sort of thing isn’t allowed on a blog, no way.
Point is, I’m trying. Really, I’m trying. For now, I’ll still use this blog to keep a record of the feature films I watch. 95% of these are “for work” and you can find reviews of them scattered about the Internet – either at the NY Daily News, ScreenCrush, the Times of Israel, Film.com or, a new development, the Dissolve. 95% of the 95% gets listed on Rotten Tomatoes and you can get to my page to drill down to longer reviews by clicking right here.
Bethlehem (2014), Yuval Adler, A-
Winter’s Tale (2014), Akiva Goldsman, D
RoboCop (2014), José Padilha, C+
Easy Money: Hard to Kill (2014), Babak Najafi, C
Girl on a Bicycle (2014), Jeremy Leven, D
Here is What Is (2007), Daniel Lanois, B-
New York Doll (2005), Greg Whiteley, B
Chaplin in the Mountains (2014), Jano Rosebiani, F
Newland (1994), Orna Ben-Dor Niv, C
The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012), Jay Oliva, B
Je t’aime, Je t’aime (1968), Alain Resnais, B
Two Lives (2014), Georg Maas, B
Pompeii (2104), Paul W.S. Anderson, C-
300: Return of an Empire (2014), Noam Murro, B+
Particle Fever (2014), Mark Levinson, A
Non-Stop (2014), Jaume Collet-Serra, B-
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Wes Anderson, A-
Stalingrad (2014), Fedor Bondarchuk, B-
Son of God (2014), Christopher Spencer, D
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014), Rob Minkoff, B
In Fear (2014), Jeremy Lovering, C-
Perfect Sisters (2014), Stanley M. Brooks, C+
Enemy (2014), Denis Villenueve, B+
The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013), Jay Oliva, B
Haunt (2014), Mac Carter, D
Youth (2104), Tom Shoval, B
Need for Speed (2014), Scott Waugh, F
Nymphomaniac Part 1 (2014), Lars Von Trier, C
Just a Sigh (2014), Jérôme Bonnell, C
The Cold Lands (2014), Tom Gilroy, C
The Single Moms Club (2014), Tyler Perry, D
McCanick (2014), Josh C. Waller, C-
Blind Chance (1987), Krzysztof Kieślowski, B
