Oz: The Great and Powerful (Raimi, 2013)|||||5
Underrated and not the po-faced drudgery that is Disney's Alice in Wonderland! A rough, posery Kansas section must be sat through... then the Land of Oz's roller coastery introduction is lifeless CGI spectacle... But, once the plot has begun, this is fine, handcrafted entertainment (yes, Raimi successfully fends off CGI-fest rigor mortis). Franco has none of the gravitas, but he's funny and can make his eyes really big, so he services well Raimi's amusing, full-on cartoony [2nd-tier-Dante] approach to things. Also, I didn't think she had it in her, but Mila Kunis is great and classically beautiful in the most dramatic role.
Trafic (Tati, 1970)|||||7
Innerspace (Dante, 1987)|||||5.5
"'Eat me, drink me'? What is that... From The Exorcist??? No, Alice in Wonderland!" LOL.
Bonfire of the Vanities (De Palma, 1990)|||||4.5
The Conjuring (Wan, 2013)|||||3.5
* Gremlins (Dante, 1984)|||||6
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Schrader, 1985)|||||6
The ABCs of Death (Various, 2012)|||||3.5~4
Admirable intentions, refreshing in a way, but so much crap and noxious elements. Best segments: Vigalondo's A, Sarmiento's D, Yamaguchi's J, the Amer duo's O. Honorable Mention to the WTF ones, including H, T, W.
For Ever Mozart (Godard, 1996)|||||7.5
Orpheus (Cocteau, 1950)|||||7
The Curse of Frankenstein (Fisher, 1957)|||||6
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013)|||||4.5
Beneath (Fessenden, 2013)|||||5
Ridiculous and hilarious, I'd say in a good way but many will say in a bad way. A dreary ending dampers it. Fessenden takes B-material and gives it his still-existing moves.
Laurence Anyways (Dolan, 2012)|||||6.5
Epic melodrama. Perhaps the nearest I've seen to a revival of Sirkian levels of complex emotion and unutterable scope.
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Resnais, 2012)|||||6
Five Million Years to Earth (Baker, 1967)|||||5.5
