There’s a reason I call this blog “Exploring the Magic of Movies”, and I suppose it has more to do with how I watch movies than the movies themselves, at least these days. In the early days of cinema, moving pictures truly looked like some kind of wizardry, and if you saw Martin Scorsese’s Hugo […]
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The Happening
Slightly expanded review, mostly a repost from my old Flixster set Never let it be said that I only blog about movies I like. I do enjoy movies immensely, and so I do go into every one prepared to love it. Why wouldn’t you? Plus, I’ll admit, I’m pretty much a sucker for M. Night Shyamalan […]
Shutter Island
I first became interested in Shutter Island through some Facebook buzz, mostly about how the movie played so differently from the trailer. I will admit, I normally pass on most movies with Leo DiCaprio–probably because the last thing I saw him in was Titanic, so I’ve dismissed him as a rather pretty-boy one trick pony. […]
My Review of The Prestige
[originally published on an old blog, April 27, 2007] Spoilers abound! There, you’ve been warned. I finally got to see a movie I’ve wanted to see for months now – The Prestige. It took me a couple of days to watch the entire thing; now I need to rewatch it all at once, to get […]
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