Movies for 2010

[valarltd]

1) City of Ember. Steampunky SF about kids escaping an underground city. Entertaining. Bill Murray is not aging well. (p)

2) Cats. Musical based on TS Eliot's Poetry. Plotless, but entertaining. (rewatch, hadn't seen it in years)

3) Hopalong Cassidy. Old TV episodes. (f,1)

4-5) Spartacus: Blood and Sand (5 hrs). Gory, vulgar and brainbreaky. (p)

6) Stardust. Lovely Neil Gaiman fantasy about a youth who promises to bring his love a star. Big name supporting cast, funny, touching and generally good. (p)

7) Northern Pursuit. A Mountie turns traitor to help save Canada from Nazi spies. Farfetched and entertaining (f2)

8) Dodge City. Big cheesy technicolor western. "But Matt! You can't do this too me. We were in the war together. We drove cattle together. We've ate slept, lived and died together!" //"And now we're going to be in jail together. You in there, me out here."

Comments

[robertlyon.livejournal.com]

I love the Spartacus series

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Lucy Lawless nakes is a religious experience.
But John Hannah having anal sex? Er, no, let's NOT send Angel down that particular bad headspace, shall we?

[revdorothyl.livejournal.com]

Couple of classic Errol Flynn non-swashbucklers there at the end of your list (I keep meaning to see "Northern Pursuit", but seem to miss it on the rare occasions TCM runs it; however, I've seen "Dodge City" often and reveled in the premium quality cheese!).

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Dodge City is very good. Northern Pursuit was entertaining and gave me some ideas for the nect Lord Withycombe novel. (there are dogsleds and skiis involved)