Author: Rainestorm
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‘Harry Potter’ and the End of an Era
Well, I guess that’s it. Shutter the windows. Draw the blinds. Put the chairs on the table, folks. After ten years the gargantuan motion picture soap opera that is Harry Potter has finally cast its last spell. Regardless of whether or not you are a fan of the books and/or the movies, you cannot deny… Read more
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Harry Potter and the oh my god I’m so tired…
I am NOT old. That’s what I keep telling myself. And I’m not. I’m only 41. That’s like 18 in giant tortoise years. Nevertheless, three solid nights of Harry Potter, going to bed late and waking up early to get to work early to leave work early to make it to the theatre by 6:00… Read more
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Harry Potter and the Angry Mob
I predict a riot. The scent of disgruntlement is already in the air. It appears the great deal that AMC Theatres offered for the Harry Potter marathon may have been a wee bit too good to be true. $40 for eight films seemed like a good deal, and it is. Especially when you consider that… Read more
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Harry Potter and the Long Haul
It’s been ten years running. It’s gone through six cinematographers, four directors, four composers, two writers, and only one major cast change. It has made more than six billion dollars worldwide and after this weekend will likely make a half-billion more. Harry Potter has become the juggernaut that rolled over the world in the first… Read more
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Inception: A Perfect Puzzle
As Sunday approaches and we all pretend to actually care about the Academy Awards, we at Rainestorm decided to highlight the film we feel most deserves to win Best Picture. No, not that Facebook movie. The one movie that managed to bridge the gap across all movie-going demographics without kow-towing to any one of them:… Read more
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Time and Time Again
One of the more interesting aspects of the way Christopher Nolan structures Inception is how he plays with the concept of time. Nowhere is this more telling than in that final act of four-deep nested dreams. With a combination of Nolan’s story-layering and Lee Smith’s fantastic editing, Inception manages to expand and compress time simultaneously… Read more
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Genre Bending
Look hard enough and you can find any number of differing opinions as to how many plots, themes, genres, etc. there actually are in cinematic fiction. Most films tend to belong to one genre, though Read more
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Figures of speech
King of the airwaves. At some point in a performer’s career, he or she is given the opportunity to play a character that is impaired or afflicted in a way that most of us are not. In such instances, the gimmick of the performance itself is often seen as thespian brilliance (Forrest Gump) and the… Read more
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Wrap-up It’s been a fantastic Halloween month. I hope you enjoyed the daily selection of films chosen for this years fright film fest. Below is a listing of all the films highlighted this year. I hope you had a Happy Halloween! Oct. 1 Scream Oct. 2 Night of the Living Dead Oct. 3 The Exorcist… Read more
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31 Nights, 31 Frights: Halloween
Alfred Hitchcock may have invented the slasher film with Psycho but John Carpenter transformed it into its own sub-genre. Virtually every horror film that followed owes its conception to this perennial holiday darling. Michael Myers has become the quintessential Halloween boogeyman and cemented his place among the throng of horror movie monsters who cannot-be-killed. Read more
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