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Sisyphean Subtitles

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 14, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

Subtitling a movie is pretty close, if not identical to, jabbing an ice pick repeatedly into your ocular cavity whilst listening to showtunes and eating your least favourite food. I say this without preamble because the last three days of my life has been devoted to the fine art of Dantean punishment. And as a [...]

Black Gold

By jelewis8 ⋅ August 26, 2006 ⋅ One comment

The filmmakers of Black Gold promise that your coffee will not taste the same after seeing the documentary. While this may be artistic hyperbole, the film is terribly striking in its presentation of the economic crisis in Ethiopia, and the devastating effects of multi-national coffee conglomerations’ low payment thresholds for the Ethiopian farmers responsible for [...]

The Omen

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

I was having a little trouble figuring out why The Omen was so named. Or why it was remade. However, because I am an expert on numerology and symbolism, I cracked the code of the Beast to discover the answer to all these mysteries. Taking the story as a MYSTERY of how Satan’s son comes [...]

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

By jelewis8 ⋅ December 21, 2005 ⋅ 3 comments

If there is one thing I might complain about the film adaptation of CS Lewis’ beloved children’s fantasy book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, it would be the obvious religious…no, make that spiritual, and more specifically, Christian aspects of the original book that the filmmakers have laboured to tame into a more mass [...]

Flightplan

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 20, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Flying commercially isn’t all its cracked up to be, if movies these days are to be believed. Red Eye has a young, freak-eyed terrorist with the unlikely name of Jack Rippner doing the bidding of some drug cartel’s dirty plot to assassinate a drug czar and his family. Flightplan is a bit more domestic and [...]

A History Of Violence

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 7, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

A History of Violence doesn’t just back itself into a corner, it scales the wall and hangs like a frightened animal. Adequately directed by David Cronenberg, it nevertheless fails to measure up to much of its own premise, mistaking unspoken ambiguity for resolution. Film audiences will not and should not be pleased by its failure [...]

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