Name: Lucas McNelly
Dateline: Pittsburgh, PA
Weblog: lmcnelly15.blogspot.com [RSS]
Articles: 50
First Published: Monday, April 3, 2006
Last Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Currently listing articles 50-1:
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Movie Review: Short Films by Keith Snyder— We need more filmmakers like Keith Snyder.
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Movie Review: Aesop's Diner
— There isn't anything here that isn't easily fixable with experience.
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Movie Review: Universal Traveler and Dream of Life
— Meaney could rather easily become an interesting music video director.
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gravida: The Uber-Indie Project Turns the Camera on Itself
— "gravida invites us to ponder the complexity of the choices we make, the unreliability of human connections."
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Movie Review: gods in disguise
— It comes off as Custer's vacation video.
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Movie Review: The Short Films of Evan Richards
— For the most part Richards gets it, and who's to say those hiccups aren't just budgetary limitations?
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Movie Reviews: The Short Films of David Lowery
— Lowery's talent is undeniable, his grasp of the medium innate. He is, beyond question, a filmmaker worth watching.
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Movie Review: Confusions of an Unmarried Couple
— One hell of an enjoyable 73 minutes, and you can't really ask for much more than that.
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Movie Review: Date Number One
— The sort of thing you get in student films where the filmmaker recruits actors from the football team.
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Movie Review: Mutual Appreciation— That's the chief problem with Mutual Appreciation - at times it's a lot like being the designated driver.
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Movie Review: Home— Seitz displays a real talent, a grasp of the medium — clearly a filmmaker to watch.
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Movie Review: Deadly Obsessions
— It feels like one of those 80's TV movies they show on Saturday afternoon when there's no college basketball on.
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Movie Review: Crooked Features
— A mockumentary look at the efforts of a legendary adult auteur to go legitimate...
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Movie Review: Closely Watched Trains— Every frame is infused with a virginal eroticism that mirrors the preoccupation of the hero.
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Movie Review: A Scanner Darkly— The key is to get used to the animation as quickly as possible.
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Movie Review: Lawrence of Arabia— Content to present us with a Lawrence that is simply flawed for no discernible reason.
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Movie Review: Russian Dolls— Essentially what we’re seeing is a filmmaker maturing before our very eyes.
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Movie Review: Andrey Rublyov— Much of it boils down to the struggle to create something, to use that God-given talent to the best of your ability.
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DVD Review: A Hard Day's Night— I cannot imagine someone with any amount of appreciation for the Beatles or their music who would not thoroughly enjoy this film.
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Movie Review: Once Upon a Time in the West— It occasionally has the feel of a great director coasting along.
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Movie Review: A Prairie Home Companion— Cinematic comfort food to delight the senses.
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Movie Review: Psycho— A top-notch thriller the likes of which most films can only dream of duplicating, even if they duplicate everything else.
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DVD Review: Persona— Everything seems likely, even the extremely unlikely, and by keeping us guessing, Bergman keeps us watching, time and time again.
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Movie Review: Water— Do the Holy Scriptures change or must we change the context in which we view them?
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DVD Review: A Clockwork Orange— It aims to provoke a reaction in the belief that it is better to be found spectacularly bad than dull.
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DVD Review: Chinatown— Chinatown is a place where perception is not always reality.
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Movie Review: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb— Hands down, one of the greatest things ever put on film.
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Movie Review: The Best of Youth— You're so invested in these characters and their lives that you wish the film would go on forever.
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Movie Review: A Streetcar Named Desire— In retrospect this is a great, ground-breaking performance, but I imagine that in 1951 it was nothing short of a revelation.
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DVD Review: La Grande illusion— It isn't about war at all, but instead about humanity's ability to connect with each other despite their numerous differences.
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DVD Review: The Lady Eve— Not realizing they're con artists is odd, but falling in love in two days?
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DVD Review: His Girl Friday— This is one of the best comedies you'll ever see.
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DVD Review: The Shop Around the Corner— You know that in the end the two leads will realize they are in love with each other, but you're having so much fun watching
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Movie Review: United 93— A stunning and gut-wrenching film that makes a case for being the best American film of the decade.
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DVD Review: Ninotchka— The film is capitalist propaganda of the most effective kind, and makes no apologies for that fact.
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DVD Review: Chelovek s kino-apparatom— To say it is influential to visual artists everywhere is a gross understatement.
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Movie Review: Lucky Number Slevin— Director Paul McGuigan is more talented than this film indicates. Here's hoping he just got lazy.
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DVD Review: On the Waterfront— Can it be possible to both love and hate the same film? Honestly, I don't yet know.
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DVD Review: Sherlock, Jr.— Do we care that the dream sequence is beyond the suspension of disbelief? Of course not.
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DVD Review: Camille— Even for a period drama, the film has not aged all that well, but the story is a timeless one that cuts through the drivel
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DVD Review: Dodsworth— A drama about adults and geared toward adults that doesn't insult the intelligence of its audience.
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DVD Review: Swing Time— There are times it seems they're making love simply by tapping their feet. It's a beautiful thing to watch.
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Movie Review: Bride of Frankenstein— We're here to see Karloff's Monster lurch and grunt and beat people up, and that's what we get.
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Movie Review: Thank You for Smoking— This is a great debut for director Jason Reitman, a gleefully subversive film that's a wickedly funny and fearless gem.
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DVD Review: It's A Gift— I assume the sum total of all these annoyances is supposed to equal comedy, but it turns out to just be annoying.
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DVD Review: Baby Face— They may have all the money, but she has all the power, and with power the rest comes naturally.
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Movie Review: King Kong (1933)— Obviously Kong is a model, but the effects are done with such a sense of artistry, we get the full effect of the real thing.
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DVD Review: City Lights— Somehow, I imagine Chaplin got a great amount of joy from filling the first few minutes of his first talkie with gibberish.
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DVD Review: Metropolis— This is the standard on which all science fiction should be judged, and serves as the template for many a sci-fi worldview.
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Movie Review: C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America— All in all, it provides a highly entertaining 84 minutes, and you can't really ask for much more than that.
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