Chas’ blog- Suburbicon
Coen brothers' films are fun-and when they are less fun they are interesting. They are like the George and Ira Gershwin of moviedom. This is not quite a fair comparison as in the case of the musicians their roles…
Chas’ blog-why a remake of a great film?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq4m3yAoW8E Why yet another remake of Agatha Christie's classic Murder on the Orient Express? I was surprised to realize that the only prior screen adaptation was Sidney Lumet's magnificent 1974 film An abbreviated cast listing to Kenneth Branagh's Murder on…
Chas’ Blog – Mother! – not for the faint of heart
I hope that I am not giving too much away or scaring off any potential viewers with my tagline. The film's title is striking : "Mother (exclamation point)". In Aronofsky's world it probably has several levels of meaning. Those of…
Chas’ Blog – a classic sci-fi movie revisited
2049 - it is thirty years in the future from the opening of the original Blade Runner.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/?ref_=nv_sr_2 All of the characters of the original film were killed off with the exceptions of Deckard, Bat, and possibly Rachael. After watching…
Chas’ Blog – Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson
Jim Jarmusch's latest film "Paterson" is a gem of a movie...I don't believe that I can find enough good things to say about it but I'll give it a try. I have prefaced this piece with the cover of a…
Elle – Paul Verhoeven Returns to Form
Thursday night movies are back with “Elle” !…great. They are back with a Paul-Verhoeven-foreign-language film…great. It stars the peerless French actress Isabelle Huppert…really great! PAUL VERHOEVEN There must be some film aficionados out there who know that he made great…
Chas’ blog- The Walk
The Walk (2015) written by Robert Zemeckis and Christopher Browne, based on the Philippe Petit book "To Reach the Clouds" directed by Robert Zemeckis running time 123 minutes This film is prospectively engaging on so many levels and from several…
Chas’ blog ~ The Visit
I've been looking forward to M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit for weeks. Shyamalan suffers a lot from the Orson Welles: his first film is great and everything that comes afterward is compared unfavourably with it. The Visit looks like a…
Chas`blog- Man from UNCLE
Of the great TV western and spy shows of the 50's and 60's only a handful a handful have failed to be revisited in a cinematic remake. For this writer the shows that come to mind are Have Gun-Will Travel,…
Chas’ blog- Mr. Holmes
Friday, August 21, 2015 Chas' Blog- Mr. Holmes Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed in films, television, radio and on stage by a greater number of actors and in more guises than any other character, fictional or real. There has even…
