Harold Ramis: Tribute to a Comedy Legend
“When we watched his movies … we didn’t just laugh until it hurt. We questioned authority. We identified with the outsider. We rooted for the underdog. And through it all, […]
Top 10 Best Movie Endings
This is encapsulates my personal favorite movie endings, they are ranked by the ending not by the film. Each of these endings are ones that left a huge impact on me and my impression of the film. 10. Unforgiven Probably the best ending in any western and that is saying a lot considering High Noon and Shane. For almost two hours we hear […]
The Biggest Disappointments: 300
300… was more disappointing than finding out you have 300 days to live http://www.wildaboutmovies.com/images_3/300MoviePoster3.jpg Many people consider their greatest motion picture disappointment of their lives to be Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. I however reserve my greatest theater going movie disappointment to be for a film that I foolishly hyped up for myself, not one that the media […]
In Defense of “A View to a Kill”
Defending A View to a Kill One of the James Bond films that has a particularly toxic reputation is 1985’s A View to a Kill. In this ongoing series of “Pan and Slam Essentials” I will be highlighting films that I love which I either find very underrated or for whatever reason I absolutely love yet the rest of the world […]
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Gone too Soon
Philip Seymour Hoffman… a loss cinema will feel for years to come The world lost a great actor yesterday. An Actor in the truest sense of the word, a character […]
Woody Allen: The Artist and his Romanticism of New York
One of my good friends lives in San Francisco and we disagreed slightly over Woody Allen’s new picture “Blue Jasmine”, which takes place in San Francisco. He felt that the Woodman went out of his way to make San Francisco look bad and did not photograph it in the usual glamorous light that he illustrates The Big Apple. I disagreed […]
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