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The Muppet Movie (1979)
More entertaining than humanly possible!
Filmmaker(s): James Frawley

A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever – his future muppet crew – while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

Life is a Movie all lost something important when Jim Henson died. But his magic alone wasn't sufficient to do more than clever skits, both before and after this gem. Some fated match of director, writers, songwriters and puppeteers came together to create an under-appreciated...


Published December 10, 2024
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The ultimate trip.
Filmmaker(s): Stanley Kubrick

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Dueling Gods the disaster of ‘Sparticus.' Kubrick has centred each project on the mysteries of the narrative. Each film explores some theory or notion about the paths of storytelling and the fragility of those paths. Some get very abstract, like’Barry Lyndon,' where identities are adopted...


Published December 11, 2024
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Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Veronica Lake’s on the Take
Filmmaker(s): Preston Sturges

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.

A Turning Point about Turning are films that do a good job occupying your time and those that enrich your life. My comments here are part of an enterprise to build a fully enriched visual imagination. But there is a third category, it seems: films...


Published December 11, 2024
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The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
The Frankenstein of the Orient!
Filmmaker(s): Charles Brabin

The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.

Scientific Rape many times a movie can be worthwhile when it does no more than create and display a strange world. Almost always that's the case where the world is new and/or synthesised from previous abstract sources. "Metropolis" of five years earlier is often celebrated as...


Published December 11, 2024
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Treasure Island (1950)
PIRATE'S PLUNDER a young cabin boy, a roguish buccaneer... match wits in a swashbuckling adventure!
Filmmaker(s): Byron Haskin

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.

Two Heads, One Leg is rather hard to appreciate in the sea of movies we have now, but once upon a time the world of imagination was owned by books, and this was a king among them. Stevenson invented the modern notion of pirates: the...


Published January 5, 2025
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Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Dare to dream the impossible.
Filmmaker(s): Werner Herzog

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Constrained Frenzy invention of modern drama was the birth of twins, and they have been spatting ever since. One of these is the Shakespearean tradition: characters transform, sometimes even extending beyond the constraints of the movie to create themselves or some reality. Situations are complex,...


Published January 6, 2025
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Paddington in Peru (2024)
A little bear goes a long way.
Filmmaker(s): Dougal Wilson

Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.

Nicholas Caged ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ Nicholas Cage plays a larger self, which is the joke. He works with an actor who plays a larger Antonio Banderas. They are both movie obsessives, and share an opinion that ‘Paddington 2’ is the best film...


Published January 6, 2025
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones!
Filmmaker(s): Steven Spielberg

When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.

Masculinity Fades in my several thousand comments, a contemporary comment is missing for this popular movie. I’ve seen this now again after more than 40 years. It has not aged well. In its time, it was a phenomenon, created by the two biggest filmmakers in...


Published January 27, 2025
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Moana 2 (2024)
The ocean is calling them back.

After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana journeys alongside Maui and a new crew to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she's ever faced.

Lacks Discovery readers know that the original ‘Moana’ is on my list of fours, films that I believe are important, effective, and added to my life. At the time, I attributed much of that to what Lin Manual calls ‘the swell’ where a musical hook...


Published January 30, 2025
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Flow (2024)
Share in the beauty of togetherness.
Filmmaker(s): Gints Zilbalodis

A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together.

Flow of Worlds with many long form projects, you have the world and somewhat separately you have characters moving through that world. In the noir form we have here some innocent characters are selected, seemingly at random, to be tossed by world forces for our...


Published February 5, 2025
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