Podcast – Film Ruminations Podcast Episode 5: 31 Days of Halloween Part 2

Film Ruminations: The Podcast – EPISODE 2: 31 Days of Halloween Part 1

Hello all, I have posted a new episode of the podcast!

31 Days of Halloween – The Gates of Hell Trilogy

This may be the goopiest film trilogy you can watch. Three from Lucio Fulci is perhaps best know for Zombi 2, an unofficial sequel to George A. Romero, and the an extent Dario Argento’s, Dawn of the Dead (or Zombi), which itself spawned 4 additional sequels. It is my opinion that Fulci should be known […]

Updated Top 25 – Beginning of 2018

1 The Double Life of Veronique – dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski – 9.53 2 Chungking Express – dir. Wong Kar-Wai – 9.50 3 A Short Film About Love – dir. Krzyztof Kieslowski – 8.80 4 Zero Dark Thiry – dir. Kathryn Bigalow – 8.80 5 Barry Lyndon – dir. Stanley Kubrick – 8.73 6 Persona – dir. Ingmar […]

31 Days of Halloween

1 The Exorcist III – 1990 – 110 – Shudder – 6.73 – dir – William Peter Blatty – I watched this film on the recommendation of our friends over at the Shock Waves podcast. I am a big fan of the first Exorcist movie and I think I watched The Heretic, though, I am […]

The Birth of a Nation

dir. Nate Parker – 2016 – 117 min – 6.40 I was talking with my friend Aaron the other day about how picky I am. The wider my film vocabulary becomes the more I notice how my tastes effect my enjoyment of films. The Birth of a Nation falls victim to this. The film tells […]

Quick hits – a modern edition

This weekend I was able to play a little catch up on more recent films rather than 50-year-old black and white international films. The only film I am not listing yet is The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby by Ned Benson because it is an interesting concept for a film. The one story exists in three […]

Quick Hits

It is time for another quick hits. In this edition I watch several Werner Herzog films and manage to feel bad about myself, read on! Even Dwarves Started Small dir. Werner Herzog – 1970 – 4.1 – I have a feeling that this film will be placed next to Eraserhead in films I watched but […]

Themeless Quick Hits

This weeks “Themeless Quick Hits” is another themeless mash-up of uncollected films. Mostly, some are, but there was no solid, complete theme. Lawless dir. John Hillcoat – 2012 – 7.00 – Several years ago I watched The Proposition by John Hillcoat, but not because of the director but because of the writer. I have been […]

Quick Hits….and misses…

Hits… Sunset Blvd dir. Billy Wilder – 7.7 – I hate that moment after I watch a movie and then, just as it ends, I an furious with myself for not having watched it sooner. Sunset Blvd is a wonderful Hollywood-Noir film that should not be possible. The basic plot circles around a b-level movie writer […]