A Quick FYI

Hey all,

I’ve been playing with the idea of changing my grading scale’s look for a while now, and I’ve finally done it. In all future reviews, it’ll be off to the right, a full display of my grading scale, with the highest full-color grade representing the grade I give it.

For example, the grade off to the left is a solid “B”.

Please let me know if you want me to make any adjustments, i.e. if there needs to be a box around the grade for emphasis, or if the lower values should be blotted out in grey as well.

Thanks, as always.

–APKD

Coming Soon: Review No. 500

A while back, I had you guys vote on Facebook for my 500th review.  I had narrowed it down to a cult film, and the results came down to David Lynch’s Eraserhead.  This is an update to let y’all know that I have already watched Eraserhead by now–and if not, I will soon.  The projected date for this review will be Thursday the 12 of June (a 4:30 review), but it will most likely be later.  Keep your eyes peeled.

Regards,
“The Cinemaniac”

Tomorrow, on Cinemaniac Reviews…

I don’t know which was harder to believe: that I was finally scooping up the godsend chance to see it, or that–even with my exponentially increasing hopes–it was ten times more awesome than I had anticipated.

Depending on how well you know me, either in person or through the blogosphere, you may be just as shocked as I am that the movie to which I am referring is Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.

I’ll try and be brief with this post, but I’d like to say that I saw it a week ago and I’m dying to see it again. Hell, I was dying to see it again from the second it was over. I thought I was lost for not having seen it. I don’t mean to offend you if you were sinking in the same boat as me, but I was right.

In fact, I went ahead and bought it shortly after my initial watch.  I know, I know, there’s an inevitable 20th anniversary edition on 2014′s queue; once it is announced, that will be the time (and the ONLY time!) when I’ll auction off the Blu-Ray I have now, and preorder the whole shebang.

Sorry if I’ve made any of you feel old with that whole “20th anniversary” thing.  I guess I just don’t understand how that might feel, since my own “release date” was three years later.

I’m getting terribly sidetracked so, ANYWAY…

My review goes up tomorrow, and although it’s impossible, I hope my writing quality is as outstanding as Tarantino’s.  One of the (many) cool things about Pulp Fiction is that the clocks are always stopped whenever we see them.  The time varies (sometimes noon, sometimes, 8:20, sometimes 10:20, etc.).  But the first of these “clockstoppings” is at noon, so that’s when my review will go up tomorrow (as opposed to 2:00PM).

I should shut up now.

Stay tuned.

Hiatus Announcement

Season Two ends today for Cinemaniac Reviews. Oh, the tears you are shedding, as you think, “This is just about as agonizing as when Oprah Winfrey said goodbye/M*A*S*H ended/the Spice Girls parted ways!” Fear not. A week from tomorrow, I’ll be back with…the usual suspects.

Perhaps a review of The Usual Suspects if I get around to it.

In addition, the review schedule will change slightly: I’ll have one review per each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday–each at 2:00 PM; and two reviews per each Thursday–one at 2:00 PM, the other at 4:30 PM.

–APKD

Movie Question III

The hiatus is coming up, so I thought I’d spend the last few days asking a few generic movie-related questions to the crowd. Please leave your answers in the comments (or reply, if you get these posts by email).

QUESTION THREE

What is the worst movie ever made?

Movie Question II

The hiatus is coming up, so I thought I’d spend the last few days asking a few generic movie-related questions to the crowd. Please leave your answers in the comments (or reply, if you get these posts by email).

QUESTION TWO

What is the most quotable film ever made, in your opinion?

Movie Question I

The hiatus is coming up, so I thought I’d spend the last few days asking a few generic movie-related questions to the crowd. Please leave your answers in the comments (or reply, if you get these posts by email).

QUESTION ONE

What do you believe to be the most overrated movie of all-time?

A Quick Announcement

While I have a free post, I’d like to announce that I am writing a screenplay. Yes, again. It’s an homage to B-movies, since we never get those, and it’s about a 22-year-old vampire who loses his father to the AIDS epidemic, and then develops a fear that if he drinks blood ever again, he will die of AIDS.

I know AIDS is a human virus…but vampires always looked quite human to me, so I’m finding a way around it. It’s a comedy, mind you, and it’s a “black comedy.”

Anyway, if you’re interested in reading it, shoot me an email (spielberg00@gmail.com), tweet me @moviefreakblog, or post on Cinemaniac Reviews’s Facebook wall. If it’s halfway decent, then I’ve succeeded.

–The Almighty Fedora

DVD Court

That’s my blurb on this week’s edition of DVD Court. I think since we’re only featuring one movie–Django Unchained–I actually feel pretty good being called a “sinner.” But I’m dying to see it, as you all know.

By the way, I’m not sure how to pronounce “DVD Court” this week.  The “d” is silent.

Anyway. Here’s where we threw down the gavel.  (Click the word “gavel,” if you will.)

–APKD

Previous Judgments

Alex Cross = burn it
Anna Karenina = rent it
Argo = buy it
Chasing Mavericks = rent it
Flight = rent it
Here Comes the Boom = burn it
Hitchcock = rent it
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey = rent it
Killing Them Softly = rent it
Les Misérables = rent it
Life of Pi = buy it
Lincoln = rent it
The Man with the Iron Fists = skip it
The Master = rent it
Parental Guidance = skip it
The Perks of Being a Wallflower = buy it
Playing for Keeps = burn it
Red Dawn = skip it
Rise of the Guardians = rent it
The Sessions = rent it
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D = skip it
Sinister = rent it
Skyfall = buy it
This Is 40 = rent it
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 = burn it
Wreck-It Ralph = buy it
Zero Dark Thirty = rent it

An Important Editor’s Note

This is the first Monday in a long time that there is no Monday Movies of the Mind, and fortunately/unfortunately, last week’s was the final entry. Next Monday (04/22) is Jack Nicholson’s birthday. As he is my favorite actor to walk the planet, I will have a tribute post going up for him instead of a 15th edition of MMotM. Also, from that Saturday (04/27) until the follow Friday (05/3), Cinemaniac Reviews will be on hiatus. Season three will commence on May the 4th, and that Monday, I will introduce a new weekly feature.

Also, I’d like to thank you all for supporting my blog. It means a lot to me that I’m not writing to watch myself write, because I talk to hear myself talk as it is. All I ask is that you don’t just take this thanks and run with it. Please continue to “like” my posts, share them on Facebook and Twitter, and spread the word! (Yes, even while I’m on hiatus!)

Kind regards,

Alexander “The Cinemaniac” Diminiano

After Hours