Tightrope

Clint Eastwood is a New Orleans cop, about as different from Dirty Harry as he could be. For one thing, he’s got custody of two daughters (one of them Alison Eastwood, his real-life daughter) and is a sucker for stray dogs, having four always underfoot and in bed with him. For another, he is obsessed with the prostitutes in the French Quarter, and likes to handcuff them. Not what you’d ... Read more »

Timbuktu

Here is a movie that got fantastic reviews, and I list it here only because we watched about a half hour of it. This is in no way the fault of anyone connected to it. It is probably very good. The first half hour was, anyway. But it is a sad fact that neither of us were in the mood to see the atrocities committed in Mali by a deranged sort of cousin of ISIS and the Taliban. I know it was ... Read more »

Time Bandits

Odd trivium: The real stars of this picture are six dwarfs: Randall, Fidgit, Strutter, Og, Wally, and Vermin. There was going to be a seventh, name of Horseflesh, but they dassn’t annoy the massive Disney machine. I mean, really! Does Disney own the rights to the very concept of seven small people in a band? Apparently so. This is unconscionable overreaching, in ... Read more »

Time Lapse

So this guy invents a camera that takes pictures one day into the future. It is bulky, bolted to the floor, and uses old Polaroid film, so it only takes pictures of the window of an apartment across the way from where it is installed. Three friends, Callie, Finn, and Jasper, live there, and discover the camera. They see themselves holding up a paper with the results of the greyhound races ... Read more »

The Time Machine

We recently saw a new film titled The Invisible Man, which was the title of an H.G. Wells story. This new movie had nothing at all to do with the earlier one. Now here is another Wells title, and it is based on the book, but I sort of wish it hadn’t been. It’s only a take-off point, actually, with a man in Victorian times who builds a ... Read more »

Time of the Wolf

Another pretentious piece of crap that a lot of critics seemed to think was deep. About half of it was too dark to see, and when the lights went on, I didn’t care. Some sort of post-apocalyptic fol-de-rol was going on, the water was bad, nobody had any food. The people start behaving primitively. Hoo-hah. What an insight! What does it take to make some people see that … there’s ... Read more »

A Time to Kill

Two well-connected white boys rape and try to kill a ten-year-old black girl in Mississippi in the ‘80s, but they are shit out of luck. The girl survives. The girl’s father (Samuel L. Jackson) fears the two will go free, which is a possibility, so he goes to the courthouse and kills them both. He persuades his friend Matthew McConaughey to defend him. No big surprise, after an impassioned ... Read more »

The Time Traveler’s

I loved the book, and I thought the movie did a decent though not brilliant job of bringing it to the screen. I can’t understand why so many critics were so harsh. Here was a science fiction love story that had a fairly new idea: a man who was apt to simply vanish into another time, without warning, leaving his clothes behind. Think about the difficulties inherent in that statement. He ... Read more »

Timecode

I’m all in favor of experimentation in the arts. Sometimes you get a real breakthrough. Sometimes it falls flat on its face. And sometimes the best you can say for it is that it was an interesting attempt. This one falls into the last category.

It is entirely in split screen, four quadrants, where things are happening simultaneously. You know that because about fifteen minutes in, ... Read more »

Timecrimes

Here is the sort of little science fiction film I live for, the sort that come along all too infrequently in this age of bloated crap. Two others that fit in this category are Primer and Predestination. Check them out if you haven’t already. Oddly enough, all three movies deal with time travel, but in distinctly different ways. It is ... Read more »