Video Vault: The Road
February 23, 2010 at 5:08 AM by Shawn K. Inlow · 1 Comment
(GantDaily Graphic) The Road 2009 – John Hillcoat Rated R: 111 minutes Vault Rating: 9 Cormac McCarthy lives in this community of artists and thinkers out west. They’re the big brains in our world today, luminaries and philosophers and scientists in a community that allows them the freedom to think even the most preposterous hypotheses out loud. McCarthy, whose writing seems steeped...
Read More...
Video Vault: Where the Wild Things Are
February 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM by Shawn K. Inlow · Leave a Comment
LET THE WILD RUMPUS BEGIN!! - The classic children's book by Maurice Sendak has been turned into an admirable feature film by Spike Jonze. Where the Wild Things Are 2009 – Spike Jonze PG – 101 minutes Vault Rating: 8 When someone takes a children’s book and turns it into a Jim Carrey movie (see Grinch) or a 3D animated nightmare (Meatballs, which wasn’t even a great...
Read More...Video Vault: Talk To Her
January 25, 2010 at 5:13 AM by Shawn K. Inlow · Leave a Comment
Talk To Her 2002 – Pedro Almodovar Rated R : 105 mins. Vault Rating: 8 Benigno (L) and Marco ® befriend each other while caring for their injured girlfriends in today’s Video Vault feature: “Talk to Her.” Here’s a compelling and original love story set mostly in a head trauma ward. I told you it was original. Once again writer / director Pedro Almodovar is examining...
Read More...Video Vault :: Avatar
January 17, 2010 at 7:25 PM by Shawn K. Inlow · Leave a Comment
Avatar 2009: James Cameron PG-13: 162 minutes Vault Rating: 7.5 “Jungle Love” : U.S. Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) gets a tip on bow-hunting from Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) in a scene from the first run blockbuster, “Avatar.”The much-hyped 3D bajillion dollar extravaganza looks good and plays a bit long. If you like a good sci-fi, this is definitely it. If you’d rather...
Read More...Video Vault: ‘Giant’
January 3, 2010 at 7:31 PM by Shawn K. Inlow · Leave a Comment
A Good Lookin’ Cast: Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean star in today’s Video Vault Classic feature, “Giant.” Giant 1956 – George Stevens Rated G – 201 minutes Vault Rating: 7 In its three hours and twenty-one minutes, “Giant” makes its points bluntly in the context of the squabbles over land and wealth of the moneyed class in Texas. It is a love...
Read More...Video Vault:: ‘Following’
December 28, 2009 at 12:54 AM by Shawn K. Inlow · Leave a Comment
Following 1998: Christopher Nolan Rated R: 69 mins. Vault Rating: 8 Today’s Video Vault feature is a small budget thriller about an out of work writer (Jeremy Theobald) who begins following strangers for material to write about. When one of his subjects (Alex Haw as “Cobb”) catches him at it, they begin a relationship where the two are drawn into a criminal enterprise together....
Read More...Video Vault: Cinema Paradiso
March 11, 2009 at 7:53 PM by Shawn K. Inlow · Leave a Comment
Cinema Paradiso Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore 1988 / Italy, France Rated PG / 123 minutes Vault Rating: 9 A few weeks ago, I told you how I’d just watched this grand old film, “Cinema Paradiso,” in its director’s cut. I told you it was one of the best 24 films of all time. Here is why. Many films deal in passion but few ever get to the heart of the matter. Passion comes in many forms...
Read More...Video Vault: Vicky Christina Barcelona
February 27, 2009 at 7:35 PM by Shawn K. Inlow · Leave a Comment
Vicky Christina Barcelona Dir: Woody Allen Rated PG-13 / 96 minutes Vault Rating: 6.5 When hot Spanish artist Juan Antonio Gonzalo (Javier Bardem) attempts to seduce two vacationing American women at once, love triangles abound in this mild mannered comedy-romance by Woody Allen. When Juan Antonio’s fiery ex-wife, Maria Elena (Penelope Cruz in an Oscar-winning turn), re-enters the picture our...
Read More...Video Vault: Young at Heart
January 15, 2009 at 7:34 PM by Shawn K. Inlow · Leave a Comment
Young at Heart 2007: Stephen Walker PG – 107 minutes Vault Rating: 9 When I grow up, I want to be in the Young @ Heart Chorus. The Vault Rating of 9 isn’t because today’s feature is the most cinematically magical. It isn’t because the acting is great. Actually, there IS no acting in this charmed documentary about a chorus of elderly people, 80 and 90 years old or better, some...
Read More...Video Vault: The Happening
November 17, 2008 at 7:44 PM by Shawn K. Inlow · Leave a Comment
The Happening 2008: M. Night Shyamalan Rated R – 91 minutes Vault Rating: 7 I liked M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Happening” better than most critics. Many of the spies likewise have noted that they had reservations about the film afterward and some found the film vaguely disturbing. But count the Vault as a devoted fan of the Pennsylvania based filmmaker. All of Shyamalan’s...
Read More...
