Since I tend to be deliberately vague in my ratings of the films I’ve watched (the better to cover my ass when I change my mind later) I thought it would be worthwhile to do a Top Ten for all the films I reviewed for this site last year. The idea is that if you skipped over any of the reviews when I originally posted them that this would provide you an opportunity to give the best movies I watched another chance and hopefully check them out for yourself.
This is one of those rare children’s films that neither pander to its core audience nor bores adults. While much maligned during its initial release, this is a rich film that shouldn’t only be re-evaluated, but treasured.
During the course of our relationship I have “forced” Anna to watch several movies that she had absolutely no interest in, thus resulting in several treacherous crossroads for us to navigate. And even with huge successes like The Descent, Fight Club and American Movie, it has still proven to be quite the struggle to convince her that my love of a particular film might actually translate into being worth her time to view it. Recently such an event happened involving Slither.
Now when Slither was released about 2 years ago we had been dating for several months and my birthday was fast approaching. I had gotten some passes to an advance screening of the film that was to occur on my birthday. Now, with a March birthday it can be a bit of a struggle to find even a competent birthday film, so I was quite excited at the prospect of watching a halfway decent horror comedy as my own personal birthday present to myself. (more…)
Next I review another much maligned film, a film that had the audacity of being nothing like the film it was a sequel to. No musical numbers with choreographed dance routines. No cutesy inhabitants. No disembodied heads … well … to be exact this one has 31 disembodied heads, not just one. And of course, no Judy Garland. That is because next week’s film is the woefully underrated and unappreciated Return to Oz.
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