Andy's Film Blog

A blog dealing with either the joy of cinema or the agony of cinema--nothing in between.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The Spirit of the Beehive

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On the Castilian Planes in 1940, a group of children mob the local distribution truck as it delivers the latest film to town: a print of ...
Monday, October 29, 2012

The Girl

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While working out some of the particulars for "The Birds", his larger and supposedly more frightening follow-up to "Psycho...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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After hearing that their grandfather's cemetery has been vandalized and raided for body parts, a young woman, her wheelchair bound br...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Bit by the wedding bug, lovebirds Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) whisk off into the night until their car unexpectedly ...
Friday, October 26, 2012

The Nightmare Before Christmas

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When Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloweenland, stumbles onto Christmas Town, he finds himself becoming more and more disillusi...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Aliens

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Fifty years after surviving the extraterrestrial onslaught, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) finally awakens from her slumber only to be informe...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

His Girl Friday

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Ace reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) has quit her job at the paper in preparation for her impending nuptials, but her incorrigib...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Hell and Back Again

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"Hell and Back Again" examines the rigors of modern warfare and the variant, but no less psychologically taxing endeavor of com...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Aguirre: The Wrath of God

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Having always been fed up by routinary and a rampant lack of imagination in the movies, Werner Herzog has spent his directing career fash...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

Mary and Max

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A lonely 8 year old girl in Melbourne, Australia addresses a random letter to Max, an middle-aged, overweight, and highly dysfunctional N...
Friday, October 19, 2012

There's No Place Like Home

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In late 2010, basketball founder James Naismith's original rules of the game were auctioned off by Sotheby's in New York City. Fe...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Kiss of the Spider Woman

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In a South American prison, a flamboyant transvestite (William Hurt) prances around his filthy cell reenacting an admired Nazi propaganda...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

A Shot in the Dark

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Staff members of a Parisian chateau continue to be murdered, one after the other with all signs pointing to a beautiful Italian maid as t...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

9.79*

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With the 1988 Seoul Summer Games approaching, and Olympic drug testing in its infancy, track star Carl Lewis was one of the most celebrat...
Monday, October 15, 2012

End of Watch

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Two young police officers (Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena), brothers-in-arms prepared to die for each other in the blink of an eye, patrol...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

Reflections in a Golden Eye

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A rigid, sexually repressed officer (Marlon Brando) stationed pines after a peculiar enlistee (Robert Forster), while his boozy wife (Eli...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Seven Psychopaths

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Inspired by the news story of local serial killer and the egging on of his live wire best friend (Sam Rockwell), who makes ends meet by k...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Gladiator

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Following the death of Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris), his top general and confidant (Russell Crowe) is betrayed by the late emperor...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Woman in Black

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A young, grieving barrister, having recently lost his wife, is sent from London to a country manor which has been the site of several rec...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Argo

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Inflamed by the United States decision to offer safe haven to their despised Shah, tensions mount in Iran, culminating in the storming of...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Hell on Wheels

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SPOILERS ABOUND Season 2 Following his mistaken retribution and exile from the camp, Bohannon takes up with a band rebel outlaws and b...
Sunday, October 7, 2012

America, America

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A Greek family living in Anatolia near the turn of the 20th century, begin to feel the strain of increased Turkish oppression and send th...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

In the Land of Blood and Honey

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A Muslim woman (Zana Marjanovic) and a Serbian soldier (Goran Kostic) have an affair and find themselves reunited when he saves her from ...
Friday, October 5, 2012

The Champ

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A washed up, alcoholic fighter (Wallace Beery) starts his comeback bid south of the border in Tijuana with his doting son (Jackie Cooper)...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Broke

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Following the glory days of professional sports, a staggering number of athletes find themselves insolvent, with figures as high as 60% o...
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