Grab Your Pals And Watch The Emotionally Raw Girlfriends

Back in a 1980 interview, Stanley Kubrick remarked that a recent American film he adored was the Claudia Weill 1978 feature Girlfriends. Particularly interesting in his praise of the project was him noting bewilderment over it not doing well at the box office (as Kubrick can attest with his own works like 2001: A Space Odyssey, good films sometimes just can't translate quality to strong box office), how well-made the feature was and that it had a thoughtful quality that reminded him of European cinema. Heed the words of Stanley Kubrick dear reader, Girlfriends is very much worthy of the praise this iconic filmmaker heaped upon it.

Terrence Malick's Days Of Heaven Is A Beautiful Look At Early 20th Romantic Strife, And Yes, Douglas Laman Wrote This Review

Well hello Terrence Malick. It's been awhile. Me and o'l Malick may be two Texas boys but we haven't always seen eye to eye in the past. By that, I mean I haven't enjoyed a lot of what I've seen from this prolific filmmaker, even features of his like Badlands and The Tree Of Life that have scored outstanding acclaim left me more cold than impressed. But I am not one to give up on any artist, especially one that has clearly resonated emotionally on a profound level with so many like Terrence Malick and so I have pressed on in consuming titles from his filmography. It seems I have finally stumbled upon a feature of his that I could enjoy in the form of the 1978 motion picture Days Of Heaven.

Neither Bird Nor Plane, Superman Is Just An Insanely Charming Movie

Us superhero movie geeks owe more than a bit to 1978's Richard Donner feature film Superman. Prior to this movie, superheroes had been relegated to forgotten TV movies, serials, a handful of Zorro movies and a single theatrical movie based on the 1960's Adam West Batman TV show. Though it would take another decade (with Tim Burton's Batman) before another non-Superman superhero movie would find similar success, this iteration of Superman had opened the door for other costumed characters to enter multiplexes across the world and tell their heroic tales in a larger-than-life visual medium.