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The Essentials: “Bringing Out the Dead” 1999 by Jason Koenigsberg The Pan and Slam Essentials are intended to highlight great personal favorite films and underrated classics. Bringing Out the Dead […]
Movie Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel By Jason Koenigsberg Wes Anderson is more one of the most distinctive directors working today, yet I consider him to be more of an […]
Movie Review: Sabotage By Jason Koenigsberg The Arnold comeback parade continues in 2014 with David Ayer’s gritty, cop thriller Sabotage. I was a fan of The Last Stand, Schwarzenegger’s first […]
Jackie Brown… When Good Directors Go Bad by: Jason Koenigsberg Jackie Brown is not a terrible movie, just very disappointing. In fact there are some great aspects of this film. […]
Fight Club was most disappointing considering the obsessive fan base it created. Unfortunately this movie came out my junior year of high school and so its target demographic, young white […]
The most influential scripts ever put on film in my humble opinion. These are films where everything worked out perfectly in the right place with great acting, directing, editing and everything else. Yet all of these films have some of the most influential dialogue and narrative structures ever put on celluloid. It was hard to narrow down the best scripts […]
“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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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… 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 […]
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 […]
Best Picture: Before Midnight Her Inside Llewyn Davis Pacific Rim 12 Years a Slave* Best Director: Woody Allen-Blue Jasmine Guillermo Del Toro-Pacific Rim Spike Jonze-Her Richard Linklater-Before Midnight* Alexander Payne-Nebraska Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor-12 Years a Slave […]
Best Picture: Argo The Dark Knight Rises Django Unchained* Jiro Dreams of Sushi Lincoln Moonrise Kingdom Prometheus Skyfall Ted Zero Dark Thirty Best Director: Wes Anderson-Moonrise Kingdom Kathryn Bigelow-Zero Dark Thirty Ridley Scott-Prometheus Steven Spielberg-Lincoln Quentin Tarantino-Django Unchained* Best Actor: Jack Black-Bernie Daniel Craig-Skyfall Daniel […]
Best Picture: The Artist The Descendants Drive The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Hugo* Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol Moneyball Source Code Tree of Life Warrior Best Director: Michael Hazanvicius-The Artist Terrence Malick-Tree of Life Alexander Payne-The Descendants […]
Best Picture: Black Swan Blue Valentine Enter the Void The Ghost Writer Inception* The Kids are Alright The King’s Speech 127 Hours The Social Network True Grit Best Director: Danny Boyle-127 Hours Lisa Cholodenko-The Kids are Alright Joel and Ethan Coen-True Grit David Fincher-The […]
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