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…
Chas’ blog – The Hateful Eight
When the poster for "Hateful Eight" first went up in the lobby I asked myself, why "eight" ?...Tarantino has made a lot more than just eight movies since 1992's "Reservoir Dogs". When I looked up his screen credits i found…
Chas’ blog – The Revenant
(With apologies to Heather) I started out watching for signs of the movie change-over from our month-long run of Star Wars las Saturday. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday(my computer was down), Wednesday- "Revenant" was up on the marquee and my reaction…
Chas’ Blog-Truth
Generally, I really look forward to a film with some creative involvement from Robert Redford. Ever since his first appearances with Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and 1973's The Sting I have been impressed with his…
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 – The November Man
The November Man 2014. U.S.A. Running time 108 minutes rated 14A Director Roger Donaldson From the novel "There are No More Spies" (1987) by Bill Granger For those of you wondering why Pierce Brosnan would do another spy thriller movie…
