Tony Scudder Walking and talking movies since the 70's
CABIN IN THE WOODS Most anticipated 2012 movie (RELEASED 13th April)
★★★★★ AMERICAN REUNION UNIVERSAL RELEASED 2 May 2012 ‘American Pie’ is one of the defining movies of the ‘90s’. Released in ‘99, it still holds up now (in 2012) as a superb teen comedy with a heart of gold. Much like the ‘Scream’ series (which got off to an earlier start in ‘96), the first [...]
★★★★★ AMERICAN PIE: THE WEDDING UIP RELEASED 15 August 2003 Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) are getting married (after the proposal in a restuarant goes slightly awry), and so the gang are brought back together for one last blast. This means Stifler (Seann William Scott) jumping at the chance to organise a bachelor [...]
★★★★★ AMERICAN PIE 2 UIP RELEASED 12 October 2001 What is the plot of ‘American Pie 2’ exactly? It’s a difficult one to answer, because the reason for the film is purely monetary, and the jokes and situations in the film are barely-disguised riffs on the previous story. The worst offender is a sex scene [...]
★★★★★ AMERICAN PIE UIP RELEASED 8 October 1999 ‘American Pie’ is one of the defining movies of the ‘90s’. Released in ‘99, it still holds up now (in 2012) as a superb teen comedy with a heart of gold. Much like the ‘Scream’ series (which got off to an earlier start in ‘96), the first [...]
★★★★★ DAMSELS IN DISTRESS SONY RELEASED 27 April 2012 Writer/director Whit Stillman made one of my all-time favourite films back in 1998. It’s bloody typical when you discover an artist that you really love, whether they be a filmmaker or musician, they’ll turn out to be so unproductive that you sometimes wonder if they’re dead. [...]
★★★★★ THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO POLYGRAM RELEASED 4 September 1998 The third Whit Stillman film in what he calls his ‘Doomed-Bourgeois-in-Love series’, ‘The Last Days of Disco’ is one of my favourite movies (and the first of Stillman’s films I ever saw). Alice (Chloë Sevigny) and Charlotte (Kate Beckinsale) work for a Manhattan publishing [...]
★★★★★ BARCELONA UNKNOWN UK DISTRIBUTOR RELEASED 27 January 1995 Returning a ‘mere’ (they didn’t know how lucky they were in the 90’s) four years after his debut, Whit Stillman set his next film in the city of Barcelona, and decided, in the best tradition of that tricky second act, to call it… ‘Barcelona’. Ted (Taylor [...]
★★★★★ METROPOLITAN UNKNOWN UK DISTRIBUTOR RELEASED 25 November 1990 Whit Stillman burst onto the independent film scene back in 1990 with ‘Metropolitan’ (receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay), a tale of preppy New York twenty-somethings who are whiling away the December evenings gathering together to talk Jane Austen, social mobility, and playing Bridge. [...]
★★★★★ MARVEL AVENGERS ASSEMBLE DISNEY RELEASED 27th April Although it’s been common knowledge that the cinematic Marvel superheroes would join up to become ‘The Avengers’ in 2012 some years ago, there was always the worry that ‘Thor’ and ‘Captain America’ wouldn’t live up to the huge success of the ‘Iron Man’ films, and so the [...]
1982 was a seminal year for ‘geek’ movies (E.T., Rocky III, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Poltergeist, Tron, The Road Warrior, The Thing), so I thought it might be a good time to pump some 80′s ‘juice’ into the site. And what better way than to start with 1982′s most-influential movie, ‘Blade Runner’. [...]