Malik’s Movie Reviews Past & Present
Return of the Jedi and The Godfather Part III. Those films have come up this week in getting ready for The Dark Knight Rises. After one viewing, my gut is telling me that’s the ‘class’ where the last Nolan Batman film will end up: by any other standard, a good film against what else is out there. […]
I stumbled into this one on Netflix Instant, realizing I never got around to watching it. There are at least 3 sequels now, but the original is probably still the best. As the title implies, this documentary goes into the history of ‘beef’ between popular rappers in hip hop history. There’s a little background (tracing […]
I had the privilege of getting an advanced screening of the documentary: Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World. The film, narrated by Susan Sarandon, traces the religion’s history through the art and architecture. It wisely addresses the subject of Muslims creating art vs. ‘worshipping false idols’ (there’s a million ways to answer that question). The […]
Last year a film I kept hearing about but didn’t get around to seeing in the theatre was ‘Attack the Block’. The pitch I heard was interesting enough; a group of inner city London(!) kids thwart off an alien invasion on their own. Now that it’s available to rent, I finally had time to check […]
I had a conversation with some friends not too long ago about movies from our younger days that now seem incredibly dated. Documentaries have a great advantage here in that sometimes it’s great to capture an exact moment in time and look back and reminisce. ‘Rhyme and Reason’ was one of those docs that at […]
I had a nice ‘Politics Make Strange Bedfellows’ moment recently… In my travels, I recently met this young cat who is openly gay. I did my naturally polite thing at first, but he was guarded and I’m not the type to force myself on anyone. Some time passes and we find ourselves in a more […]
Some of you know better than others I’m a closet Beatles junkie. Without looking I can tell you my IPod easily goes at least 20 deep with their catalog, the Cirque de Soleil ‘LOVE’ show in Vegas was one of the best birthdays I’ve ever had. On the list of things I hadn’t experienced was […]
A thousand different points I could get to with this one, but let’s start with the most important one: I’m not a Marvel guy at all; I hadn’t heard of the Avengers until 2 years ago when a comic book buddy of mine (Hi V!) demanded I read some of the comics when I had […]
I know, I haven’t written anything here in more than a week. I’m in the middle of one of those ‘A lot of things happening at once’ phases. A couple big hurdles down, a couple big ones left to go. This shouldn’t be the only time I write this week though (I think). And […]
(Warning: this is a film geek post…) I remembering watching ‘I Will Follow’ when it was first released, and thinking it was cool but something throwing me off about it. It wasn’t Haterade, or thinking it was poorly made, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. So I watched it again today and finally […]
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