http://ricksflickspicks.animationblogspot.com Movie Reviews from a Different View Fri, 16 May 2008 15:16:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mixing the difficulties unique to Vietnam vets with the adjustment problems of all returning soldiers, Hal Ashby's touching drama contrasts the pro-war and the anti-war sentiments by presenting two soldiers connected by their love for the same woman. Ashby isn't a director that is common to the average filmgoer, but ... http://ricksflickspicks.animationblogspot.com/2008/05/16/coming-home-1978/ Darker than the original NARNIA adventure, this new tale brings the original young foursome back to Narnia, a land that is now unrecognizable from the world they once ruled. Writer/director Andrew Adamson, along with fellow writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, stay faithful to C.S. Lewis' original text, giving fans ... http://ricksflickspicks.animationblogspot.com/2008/05/15/the-chronicles-of-narnia-prince-caspian-2008/ Last week Todd Haynes' enigmatic biopic of Bob Dylan, I'M NOT THERE, arrived on DVD, giving inspiration for this week's lineup on musical biopics. Rock, soul and country are all represented, often crisscrossing. Two straight-laced performers, two troubled singers and one chameleon. One film mixes the artist's music with performances ... http://ricksflickspicks.animationblogspot.com/2008/05/14/twff-musical-biopics/ Winner of seven Oscars, William Wyler's touching and honest drama about returning soldiers is as relevant today as it was when it was released more than 60 years ago. While there are no stories of war objectors spitting on returning vets from WWII, the Great Generation's fighters didn't have it ... http://ricksflickspicks.animationblogspot.com/2008/05/13/the-best-years-of-our-lives-1946/ When I first saw the trailer for this film, I was shocked and amazed that someone went there. If it were played as a straight horror film, the movie, dealing with man-eating vaginas, seemed ridiculous. And the laughs that permeated the theater underlined the thoughts of misogyny and cheese that ... http://ricksflickspicks.animationblogspot.com/2008/05/12/teeth-2008-12/ Peter Bogdanovich's THE LAST PICTURE SHOW is a quiet reflective film with flares of wonderful irony and humor. Its style is a dead-on throwback to the 1950s drama, but presents a 1970s freedom to its material. As a sad meditation on the crumbling American small tows, the story can be ... http://ricksflickspicks.animationblogspot.com/2008/05/09/the-last-picture-show-1971/ I was expecting eye candy going into this film and that's what I was served, but by the time the final course was uncovered I had gobbled up Andy and Larry Wachowski's neon-glowing confection. No one who has ever seen the original series would confuse it with good animation. Nonetheless ... http://ricksflickspicks.animationblogspot.com/2008/05/08/speed-racer-2008-12/ As a child of the video age, there is a collection of films that have been ingrained in my memory for having watched them over and over again. LA BAMBA, the story of Ritchie Valens, is one of those films. Before I knew that I was watching something special, I ... http://ricksflickspicks.animationblogspot.com/2008/05/08/la-bamba-1987-12/ On Tuesday, three of the five Oscar-nominated short films were released on a DVD compilation from Magnolia, which sponsors the theatrical distribution of the Oscar-nominated animated and live-action short films each year. In celebration, this week's lineup highlights Oscar-nominated animation in general. All five animated shorts will open This Weekend's ... http://ricksflickspicks.animationblogspot.com/2008/05/07/this-weekend%e2%80%99s-film-festival-celebrates-oscar-nominated-animation/ Bob Dylan is an enigma, and that is exactly what one could call Todd Haynes' film that contemplates the seemingly contradictory sides of the famed singer's personality. Haynes has always been a filmmaker who takes risks from his unsettling SAFE to his pseudo-Bowie biopic VELVET GOLDMINE to his Douglas Sirk, ... http://ricksflickspicks.animationblogspot.com/2008/05/06/im-not-there-2007-12/