3 Decidedly Different Documentaries

This last weekend I happened upon three "documentaries." I put the word in quotation marks because out of the three, only one looked and performed like what I'd consider a traditional documentary. Here's what I saw: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives Actually, you can watch this documentary online. I'll even embed it here, so go nuts because it's great and relatively short (one hour). PARALLEL WORLDS, PARALLEL LIVES from EELS on Vimeo. If it's not working or if you'd prefer to know what the documentary Read more [...]

Emily Blunt Force Trauma

Let me be Blunt: I watched three (3) Emily Blunt movies in the last two days. This was originally coincidental, but then deliberate (once I thought of the title for a blog post, I sort of created a self-fulfilling prophecy). The last time we came back to Costa Rica I brought with us some old copies of "Entertainment Weekly" that my family was done with, and some of the movies that came up in lots of reviews and interesting comments happened to involve Emily Blunt. I then decided to watch three Read more [...]

Argo See This Academy Award Nominated Film

Argo is certainly a movie that will please audiences and give you a history lesson to boot.  The incredible true story is brought to life aptly by star and director Ben Affleck and it is timely considering the string of embassy attacks of late.  It’s best going into this movie not knowing the particulars and that’s easy because the story was fairly recently declassified by the CIA.  I can’t say for certain how glamorized it has been made and that may be the point because Hollywood had a Read more [...]

At Least I Now Know What A “Pimpernel” Is

... and it turns out it's got nothing do to with pimps. Well, not normally, at least. Let's take a step back for a moment. I'm referring not to the Scarlet Pimpernel, but rather The Black Pimpernel, a Swedish/Chilean movie released a few years ago. It tells the story of the Swedish ambassador to Chile during the 1970s Pinochet revolution. He saved around 1,300 people from likely death, and is often compared to Oskar Schindler. The movie was pretty good, although it does seem to take a bit of Read more [...]

Cinematic Attic’s Top 12 Movies of 2012

We've been talking about it for the last week, and now it's finally time to lay our cards on the table. Here is our list--Click on the titles in green to go to our reviews of each movie. Enjoy! CINEMATIC ATTIC'S TOP 12 MOVIES OF 2012: 1) Moonrise Kingdom 2) Django Unchained 3) Prometheus 4) Dark Knight Rises 5) The Avengers 6) Cloud Atlas 7) Looper 8) Cabin in the Woods 9) Frankenweenie 10) ParaNorman 11) The Hobbit (2) 12) Skyfall Now, a few notes about the way we figured Read more [...]

Top 12 of 2012: For Your Consideration: “Moonrise Kingdom” (By Mike2D2)

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen! Today we're going to continue our look back at 2012--it certainly had a lot of good movies, didn't it? Tonight we'll have a review of a movie that made basically all of our editors' lists, and it will be the first post by our writer Mike2D2! The article was originally just a series of beeps, blips, and whistles, but fortunately our protocol droid was able to convert it into Standard English (a Bocce translation will follow soon). Enjoy! For Your Consideration: Read more [...]