Jean Claude Van Damme! Time travelling! Kicking things! This month’s Movie of the Month champion is not what you’d necessarily call a “good” film, but it certainly provoked an entertaining discussion covering the career of JCVD, the ramifications of time travel and whether or not the same matter can share the same space (it can… but it can’t).…
Christmas day is always crowded at the box office and unsurprisingly it brings films with lots of big names in Hollywood. We’ve got 5 new releases for you and the names attached to them include: Martin Scorsese, Idris Elba, Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro and Keanu Reaves. Find out below what the lammies thought of The Wolf of Wall Street, Mandela: Long Walk to...
Hey, its Shala from Life Between Films with more festival info for you. Sundance 2014 is set to take over Park City, Utah this week, this year with 121 feature films representing 37 countries with 54 first-time filmmakers. While you may not be able to attend in person, there are a number of ways that you can experience the festival from wherever you are:…
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This week we have a pair of very different comedies for you. First up we have the melancholy of the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis. On the other side, we have the highly anticipated sequel Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. Find out what the lammies thought of these films and be sure to check out the forums as well.
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Robert from Sketchy Details here to kick off the a new year of Foreign Chops with a look back at the best films of the century so far. What do you think are the best foreign films released since January 2000? We’re looking for your reviews, editorials, retrospectives, interviews, commentaries, and more focusing on what you think are the best of the best films from around the world.
You can send up to five links per site (not per...
We’ve got a trio of major releases this week and they’re sure to result in some interesting reviews. First, David O. Russell teams up with some old friends for his latest ensemble dramedy American Hustle. Next, Disney/Mary Poppins gets the biopic treatment with Saving Mr. Banks. To top it off, we also have the 2nd installment in the prolonged...
Robert from Sketchy Details back with another edition of Foreign Chops. To kick off the New Year, we took a look at German cinema. There is no overlap again for two months running, meaning a diverse array of films to read about.
Asphalt
Martin Teller’s Movie Reviews
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Movies Silently
The Death of Maria Malibran
Martin...
Christian Bale stars in a pair of holiday releases and this week we feature the first of them on the LAMBScores – Out of the Furnace. This moody drama follows his character in the search for his missing brother in Rust Belt Americana. Find out what your fellow lammies thought of this film below and don’t forget to head on over to the forums.
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Once again, the MOTM feature proves that all good things come to those who wait. Of course, your definition of “good things” may differ from someone else’s. Namely, Dan Heaton’s, whose championing of Timecop has now finally paid off with its selection as the MOTM, beating out Joel’s selection of Runaway Train. (Apparently, Joel is persona non grata when it comes to MOTM film selections,...
This week’s LAMBScores features a pair of female-driven films. The first is the Disney musical Frozen, featuring the voice talents of Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel. The other is the drama Philomena, starring Dame Judi Dench. They were both well-received by the major critics, but how well did they fare with the lammies? Find out below and...
I don’t know if it’s a slight against the film or not, but this is the entirety of the IMDb summary of our most recent Movie of the Month, Cocktail:
“A talented New York bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love.“
If you’re a normal movie blogger at all, you’re probably wondering why and how this film came to be the Movie of the Month. For the...
Robert from Sketchy Details announcing a new edition of Foreign Chops. This time around, we’re going to look at the films of Germany.
Germany has had a viable film industry almost as long as the United States, only with a more fragmented history. There are very clear period coinciding with history that constantly reinvented what German cinema was. Counting the years where East and West Germany were divided, the country has been...