martin_james Reviews

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

The perfect film!

[10/10 · 18 December 2002]

Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece of satire is a dark comic tale which plays out as the ultimate disturbed joke.

This film is perfect on every level! It's the true A+, the unmatched 10, and the total vision of governmental and societal madness that cinema has ever seen.

No work could ever be more important to the movies than this one, so don't miss the chance to view this film. But, just a warning, be prepared to feel mortified and filled with laughter and smiles all at once. Oh what a great feeling indeed!

Memento (2000)

Inspired Cinema!

[10/10 · 14 December 2002]

Not enough could ever be said about "Memento", a brilliant, inverted neo-crime noir from Christopher Nolan. This stands as perhaps the single most inventive film that cinema has seen in the last fifteen years, and most certainly, the best of its year.

The detail and pacing with which Nolan films is constantly fascinating and inherently engages his audience at all levels. The wonderful script is enhanced by the performances of Guy Pearce and the supporting cast, all in top form.

"Memento" is in one statement, an A+, a perfect 10, and a film which begs to be watched over and over!

And it will indeed. Future movie buffs will be as intrigued twenty years from now by this little film as we have been now.

Strange Invaders (2001)

A brilliant animated short from the NFB!

[20 November 2002]

With its odd mix of surrealism and pure whimsy, this animated short by Cordell Barker of the NFB is an utter joy! Filled with memorable score and wonderful imagery, this is true animation at its most clever and beautiful form! Watching it several times it not nearly enough!

Once you have seen this film, the rival winner of last years "Best Animated Short" at the Oscars, "For The Birds", will seem a mindless exercise and waste of computer memory! But up here in Canada, we know what really should have won the Academy Award.

The National Film Board adds another masterpiece to their list of fine works.