Netflix Notes
Netflix Notes – “Ooooh, I Love Sandra Bullock” Edition
Well, lookey here. I made a promise and I actually kept it.
Last month, I started this new recurring series (for those keeping count, this is something like the 16th recurring series I’ve started on this site). Unlike those others, I actually made good on my promise and returned – ON TIME.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ll plan to drop in at the end of each month and provide all of you with my thoughts on the latest flicks to scurry out of my Netflix queue and land before my peepers. Remember, this is just supposed to be my reactions and observations of the whole laundry list of films that I somehow missed on first run and am now parsing through in the comforts of my own home. To that end, if anyone has suggestions for movies that I’ve just got to see, let me know in the Comments below. Also, if you... Continue reading »
Netflix Notes – ‘The Need for Speed’ Edition
Reading through Part 1, I see I strayed a bit off course. I promised they wouldn’t take the form of traditional reviews but you can take the Ebert out of the Guy but you can’t take the Guy out of Ebert. (I’d like to say that sounded better in my head but now that I’m visualizing every sick connotation all I can say is, No – No it doesn’t.)
Anyway, I hit y’all with a rambling manifesto to kick this off last time, so today I’m just going to dive into the deep end and try my hardest not to officially review these flicks. Remember, this is just supposed to be my reactions and observations of the whole laundry list of films that I somehow missed on first run and am now parsing through in the comforts of my own home.
One last programming note. I’ll probably do this as a recurring monthly featu... Continue reading »
Netflix Notes – ‘Night of the Living Ed’ Edition
True confessions time.
I’ve never seen The Godfather. Not I. Not II. I did see a little of Part III and what I saw, I REALLY liked. (Hey, where’d that horse head come from?)
Seriously though, Ed Humphries, the dude who toiled away for a number of years as the UMASS Daily Collegian’s Siskel (we already had an Ebert) has never seen The Godfather. Same goes for The Natural. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Citizen Kain. Chinatown and Casablanca.
I did see They Live five times in the theater, however.
That Godfather revelation came up in casual conversation with Mookie a few weeks back when I told him that I had recently restarted my Netflix account after a several year hiatus. Coincidentally, The Boston Globe ran a story Sunday where their resident film critic, Wesley Morris, admitt... Continue reading »
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