Motion Picture Gems

Sharing this clip from Vanity Fair where director George Miller talks about the Mad Max series including the new Furiosa movie that I want to see! Check it out below (7 minutes long)

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2024/05/video-clip-george-miller-talks-about.html

WARNING: THIS REVIEW HAS SPOILERS OF TAROT IN IT. The common denominator with all 3 of these movies: they're all "not-so bloody/gory" horror-comedies where a group of young adults dies off one-...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2024/05/tarot-2024-ghoulies-1985-and-countdown.html

The new film Civil War is directed by the same director of Ex Machina, a movie I loved and think of as a modern masterpiece. This new film sounded really intriguing to me, and though I liked watc...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2024/04/civil-war-2024-and-zombieland-2009.html

I went to see it in theaters over this past weekend and had a good time watching it! It was hard to keep me from the theaters because I've loved this movie and franchise since I was 8 years old. ...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2024/03/if-i-were-co-screenwriter-of.html

Below is a video from DoubleToasted; they review the new trailer for the new Ghostbusters movie and I really agree with their points on pretty much everything, and they have a funny take on some ...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2024/03/trailer-for-ghostbusters-frozen-empire.html

I went to go see Oppenheimer and did not like it! Too, too long. I think that means I'm ready to conclude that I am not a fan of the director, Christopher Nolan. Not that he isn't a talented film...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2023/07/oppenheimer-2023-inception-2010-and.html

Barbie is the movie of 2023! No doubt about it. I went to see it and really liked it. It is funny on a way that satires our society and felt very much like the great movies that Mel Brooks made i...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2023/07/barbie-2023-lars-and-real-girl-2007-and.html

I recently watched these two movies in the last month (The Killing Fields was actually a re-watch for the third time; it goes without saying that it's a great classic film that I highly recommend...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2023/08/fast-x-2023-and-killing-fields-1984.html

Was sad to hear that Netflix is discontinuing their DVD-by-mail service. I guess it was just a matter of when, not if, but I didn't want to think about it because I have over 200 movies in my Net...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2023/04/sad-news-netflix-discontinuing-dvds-by.html

Sight and Sound is a British magazine that compiles a Top 10 movies list every 10 years (based on a critics poll). https://100films.co.uk/2022/12/02/sight-and-sound-100-greatest-films-2022/  ...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2023/01/sight-and-sounds-top-100-films.html

The MTV Youtube channel recently uploaded this cool short film they created almost 20 years ago with the late Brittany Murphy in Blockbuster picking her favorite movies. I never saw this but foun...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2023/01/archive-clip-from-2004-brittany-murphy.html

Fair warning: some spoilers in this review. My friend and I went to see Babylon today at a local theater. Before the movie, two of its stars - Margot Robbie and Diego Calvas who plays "Manny" -...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2023/01/babylon-2022.html

Fair warning: this post contains spoilers about the movie.  I recently re-watched this movie for maybe the 10th time. I really love watching it; it's one of the coolest looking movies ever. Ev...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2022/12/what-always-confuses-me-in-dick-tracy.html

Lately I've been on a Steve Martin kick and watched a number of his films for the first time (or on a re-watch), Sadly, I enjoyed almost none of them.  Bringing Down The House This movie I d...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2023/01/steve-martin-movies-i-dont-like.html

I watched all of the first 3 movies and really enjoyed them! I hadn't seen the first in over 30 years so it was an enjoyable rewatch. The movie holds up pretty decently. I think one of the secret...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-karate-kid-parts-1-3-1984-89.html

I knew I would enjoy this movie from the first few moments it begins. We see an old man (Christopher Plummer) in a theater by himself enjoying a bottle of booze and watching His Girl Friday with...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-man-in-chair-2007-starring.html

I love this movie - it has emotion, heart, and smart writing/dialogue (by husband-and-wife team of Jerry Leichtling and Arlene Sarner, who unfortunately didn't write many other screenplays, per ...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2022/11/peggy-sue-got-married-1986.html

I watched both when they first came out 30 years ago, but didn't like them very much.  And then just the other day I watched it again, and enjoyed it more than ever. It's funny how this is a r...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-addams-family-1991-addams-family.html

NASHVILLE, TN SHOWING IN 1973 I've never blogged about 1973's The Exorcist before, but it's a movie that I rewatch every few years, usually around Halloween time or in October. Recently, I ...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2022/10/five-questions-i-had-re-watching.html

Watched these movies for the first time recently; In the late 80s, I guess I just wasn't interested in vampires or vampire movies all that much.  In Fright Night, a teen discovers that his su...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2022/10/fright-night-1985-and-lost-boys-1987.html

I don't know alot about the story behind the making of this film, but I'm guessing that Stanley Kramer, who normally directed dramas, wanted to do an all-star slapstick comedy. I've seen parts o...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2022/10/its-mad-mad-mad-mad-world-1963.html

I recently watched Goodfellas in its entirety (not just bits and pieces) and enjoyed it. When I first tried watching it, I thought it was really boring, but now I find great appeal to it beca...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2022/10/goodfellas-1990-and-state-of-grace-1990.html

This account of a one-night stand and the subsequent night is very realistic portrayal that seemed very authentic, unlike other similar themed movies that inject a ton of comedy and humor. Made ...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2023/01/nuit-1-2011.html

I first heard about this movie from a post from the blog Mike's Take On The Movies which featured a newspaper ad for this movie from December of 1968, almost 55 years ago. Check it out at the lin...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2022/09/candy-1968.html

CNN.com recently had an interesting article about mid-budget movies which includes thoughts about why we don't see them in theaters as much anymore: Mid-budget movies as we knew them are in dec...

https://motionpicturegems.blogspot.com/2022/09/interesting-article-about-mid-budget.html