http://meltedreelonline.com Where Cinema Gets Incinerated Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:53:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [rating: 1.5] Okay, I admit it. I am no fan of the Harry Potter series. I did give a fairly positive review of the fifth film in the series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and I stand by that assessment of it as the best picture in the ... http://meltedreelonline.com/movie-reviews/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince/ [rating: 2] I'm no fan of Japanese horror movies, but if there's one Japanese director working today who could make one I do like, it's Takashi Miike. He hasn't made one I like, but he probably could. Film criticism is of course always a subjective exercise but, despite my informal and personal ... http://meltedreelonline.com/movie-reviews/audition/ I've got an absolutely great idea for a new game show. This is my idea, so don't steal it. The show would be called You Bet Your Balls. It would be a standard trivia question type of game show, but with a little twist: the contestant puts his very testicles on ... http://meltedreelonline.com/blogs/you-bet-your-balls/ [rating: 4] The 1973 cult classic The Wicker Man is something of an oddity; even as you're watching it, you're not quite sure whether it's stupid or grand. (This is in contrast to the 2006 remake, where you're always sure what you're watching is awful.) For example, when the goofy song ... http://meltedreelonline.com/movie-reviews/the-wicker-man/ You know how the young kids these days are always using the Facebooks for their social networking and whatnot? Sure you do. Even people's moms can effortlessly make their way around Facebook now. (If there were no moms, there would be no Farmville.) So you probably also know all about how ... http://meltedreelonline.com/blogs/facebook-your-source-for-astute-film-analysis/ Recently I was watching Body Heat, Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 directorial debut. It's a great movie, working both as tribute to the film noir of the 1940s and on its own as a part of that genre. It was Kathleen Turner's first movie, too, and it's probably the most thrilling debut ... http://meltedreelonline.com/blogs/random-thoughts-on-a-couple-flicks/ I just saw the most totally awesome typographical error. It was in a list of various vitamins and health supplements and whatnots, and it read: GINKGO BALBOA  "I don't hate Balboa. I swallow 200 mg of the fool." "Prediction: memory enhancement." (P.S. I know that taking ginkgo biloba doesn't actually do anything. But ... http://meltedreelonline.com/blogs/to-err-is-awesome/ The release of a new James Bond movie used to be a big deal for me. I've been a lifelong fan of the big-screen adventures of everyone's favorite secret agent. Not all the movies have been great, but for most of the run of the series they averaged out to ... http://meltedreelonline.com/blogs/i-think-im-done-with-james-bond/ I've just finished watching Anchors Aweigh, the 1945 musical that first paired Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. I'd never seen the movie in its entirety before. The only part I had seen is the famous sequence where Gene Kelly dances with Jerry the Mouse. I rather suspect this is the only ... http://meltedreelonline.com/blogs/has-anybody-seen-anchors-aweigh/ If you've read just about anything I've written on this site, then you know that I tend only to like the mustiest, fustiest of movies and that my opinions on film are more in line with critics than with the popular audience. But this isn't always true. Sometimes I disagree ... http://meltedreelonline.com/blogs/chariots-of-tedium/