For the consumer, moviegoing is a bad financial investment. The supplier offers zero quality assurance, demands an entrance fee, and requires the incursion of a substantial opportunity cost. In return, the consumer receives the most […]
Category: moovays
The Strawberry Criterion: The Grey
First and foremost, The Grey is a movie about Liam Neeson fist-fighting giant, CGI wolves; but in another curiously present sense, The Grey is a film about poetry. Surprisingly, earnestly, and sometimes subtly: poetry. The […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Magic Mike
“It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance.” -Shakespeare, As […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Cloud Atlas
In the fraught relationship between film and literature, few events are rarer than a film adaptation that qualitatively surpasses its source material. Now, note the use of “literature” in the preceding sentence, as the bond […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Master
Cliche upholds that the human mind is “an excellent servant, but a terrible master.” In The Master, his first film since 2007’s redoubtable There Will Be Blood, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson seeks to dramatize his and our ancient […]
BPoFD Fall Film Preview Featuring The Taylor “T” Sardoni Twenty
Thrice annually, the filmmaker Taylor “T” Sardoni announces his twenty most anticipated films for the upcoming season to my email inbox. In December, he anoints his Spring 20. In May, his Summer, and, as has been the […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Dark Knight Rises
Has there ever been a wholly successful cinematic trilogy? On purely financial terms, of course. The current marquee dominance of reboots and sequels and sequels to sequels is a direct result of consistent, staggering commercial […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Hunger Games
I desire so desperately to like things. Cynicism is a suit I’m uncomfortable wearing; yet, as years pass and time piles, the world continues to reveal itself a malicious, masterful sartorialist, intent on fashioning that […]
The Strawberry Criterion: John Carter
Much ado was made about the failings of John Carter before the release of John Carter. Skeptics saw the budget egregious, the source material outdated, the lead actor too relatively unknown. These arguments have their merits. Including […]
baby pictures of famous dictators 