We’re all shook up on the Film After 11 podcast this week as we tackle director Ron Underwood’s 1990 horror comedy Tremors. The movie wasn’t much of a box office hit during its theatrical run, but quickly grew into a cult classic on home video. My son Thomas has taken an interest in horror movies… Read More Film After 11 Podcast | Tremors (1990)
In many interviews and talks, Peter Greenaway has declared with some certainty and no small amount of pomposity that narrative and character development are not only inessential, but weaknesses of the cinematic medium. He treats his work not as “movies” in the widely-accepted sense, but as a form of visual art in motion, the sort… Read More A Hundred Is Enough | Drowning by Numbers (1988) 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray
I learned a somewhat interesting fact from watching Paul Schrader’s 1982 quasi-remake of Cat People. Actually, I had to look it up afterward. Regardless, now I know that leopards and panthers are the same species, differentiated mainly by color. Perhaps that’s common knowledge to others, but I’d never given it any thought previously, until confused… Read More Kinski Skinski | Cat People (1982) 4K Ultra HD
Vegas, baby! The Film After 11 podcast travels to the city of sin this week, in the company of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and a whole bunch of famous friends. Yes, Film After 11 takes on Ocean’s Eleven in an 11-minute review with a 12-year-old viewer. Maybe I should have done this last year for… Read More Film After 11 Podcast | Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
We’re all done with that alphabetical marathon on the Film After 11 podcast and, at the moment at least, not beholden to any specific theme. If you think of one, please let me know. In the meantime, this week’s episode is timed to correspond with the theatrical release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. I figured… Read More Film After 11 Podcast | Batman Begins (2005)
Not even the troubled production and financial failure of his masterpiece Brazil could prevent director Terry Gilliam from embarking on an even bigger and more elaborate project next. His subject: the filmed biography of a man who was, at one time, the most famous and revered individual on the Earth and its moon. As recounted… Read More This Is Precisely the Sort of Thing That No One Ever Believes | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) Criterion 4K Ultra HD
Cyborgs, clones, trained fleas, and a talking disembodied brain in a fish tank are just a few among the countless idiosyncrasies found in The City of Lost Children, a Dickensian tale of societal corruption and decay by way of Jules Verne and Terry Gilliam. I’ve loved this movie from the first time I saw it,… Read More You Fell into a Strange Net, Huh? | The City of Lost Children (1995) 4K Ultra HD
What movie beginning with the letter “U” could my son and I watch for this week’s installment of the Film After 11 alphabetical marathon? Unforgiven? Good movie, but rated R. U-571? Meh. While we could talk about it being complete historical BS, it’s pretty mediocre and I’d rather watch a better submarine movie instead. The… Read More Film After 11 Podcast | UHF (1989)
Long before it became a respected cult item and a franchise-starter that would launch sequels, reboots, and a pretty darn good TV series too, The Evil Dead was just a gory splatterfest made for no money by an ambitious kid (barely 20-years-old when he shot it!) and his pals out at a little cabin in… Read More Not Another Peep, Time to Go to Sleep | The Evil Dead (1981) 4K Ultra HD
My kids have seen all the Star Wars movies multiple times, but I’d held off showing them Mel Brooks’ 1987 comedy spoof Spaceballs for reasons I try to explain in this week’s Film After 11 podcast episode. I still have a little regret about spoiling an important scene from Alien before either of my boys… Read More Film After 11 Podcast | Spaceballs (1987)
The Video File Blog 