Henry Herx, 79, Dies; Reviewed Movies for Catholics
Mr. Herx judged the moral qualities of movies as well as their aesthetic ones.
September 2, 2012
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Mr. Herx judged the moral qualities of movies as well as their aesthetic ones.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from stills and other promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It has an abandoned battleship, not a locomotive, as its perpetually in-motion, out-of-control set, but Buster Keaton’s 1924 feature The Navigator — the last occasion on which he shared directing credit before going full auteur for the …
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bradley Cooper will be there. Marion Cotillard and Penelope Cruz will be there. Bill Murray and Tom Hanks and Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman and Philip Seymour Hoffman and Halle Berry and Jennifer Lawrence and Keira Knightley and Jackie Chan will be there.
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Highly Recommended My “memories” of Quadrophenia are by association only. I had never seen the movie until this Blu-ray release from The Criterion Collection, but I had been aware of it – perhaps excessively so – thanks to the neo-Mods of my teenage years. This was in the early 1990s, and although it would be easy enough to label these neo-Mods as misguided poseurs (which they most certainly …
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time: a scenic comedy based on a hit comic novel, with a romance between Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt at its heart.