Movie Reviews
Titles starting with E
Extras, Second Season
EPISODE ONE: Orlando Bloom. He’s obsessed with being the sexiest man in England, or on Earth. He keeps magazines with polls putting him in first place, and will show them to anyone. He is particularly angry when Johnny Depp places on these lists. “On Pirates of the Caribbean? I was the one who got to kiss Kiera Knightly. She wanted no ... Read more »
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
For starters, this is a terrible title. When people are talking about your film, you don’t want them to worry about looking foolish by getting it wrong. Which modifier goes with which verb? Oh, well, I’m not sure, and I really can’t be bothered.
Oskar is a 12-or-so-year-old boy who resides in Manhattan and on the extremely (or is it incredibly?) smart side of the autistic spectrum. ... Read more »
Eye in the Sky
There is a thought experiment in ethics studies known as the “Trolley Problem.” It is simply this: There is a runaway trolley, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Directly ahead of the trolley five people are tied to the tracks and will be killed when the trolley gets there. But there is a siding. If you throw the switch, the trolley will be diverted … but there is one man tied to ... Read more »
Eye of the Needle
Donald Sutherland is a Nazi spy who has been working in England four years. He is assigned to get a closer look at General Patton’s army and air force, assembling in Anglia for an invasion over the Pas de Calais. Only as all us WWII buffs know, Patton wasn’t leading anything because he slapped a soldier. What was happening out there in the fields was a deception. The planes were made of ... Read more »
Eye of the Needle
Donald Sutherland is a Nazi spy who has been working in England four years. He is assigned to get a closer look at General Patton’s army and air force, assembling in Anglia for an invasion over the Pas de Calais. Only as all us WWII buffs know, Patton wasn’t leading anything because he slapped a soldier. What was happening out there in the fields was a deception. The planes were made of ... Read more »
Eyes on the Prize
Here is one of the few documentary series qualified to stand beside the very best documentarians like Ken Burns and David Attenborough. It’s 14 hours long, and produced by black folks, which was still fairly rare even as far from the beginnings of the civil rights movement as the late ‘80s. It was shown in two segments three years apart and for a while it was unavailable. The reason for ... Read more »
Eyes Wide Shut
It’s a shame the Kubrick had to go out with this, in my opinion, the least effective and least interesting of his later work. It has the Kubrick look, in every scene, but story is often his weakest point, and I had a very hard time getting involved in this one. I didn’t like much about these rich people, and Tom Cruise’s sexual odyssey didn’t hold a lot of interest for me. And, sadly, ... Read more »