On The Wings Of The Antichrist




Tuesday, October 20: ANTICHRIST
Friday, October 23: AMELIA
Saturday, October 24: WINGS (1927)




After two straight weeks of glorious horrible life-affirming failures (especially with his favorite song - which was Steve Winwood's "Back In The High Life"), this week you all have the chance to claw your way back to redemption with a set of difficult choices (but nevertheless from an advantaged perspective; Lars Von Trier's punishing and vivid horror film "Antichrist" has been extensively covered in a recent edition of Reel Thoughts, and the few people who have seen the original Best Picture-winner, "Wings", will probably have some idea of what to expect from James' review). Joining this privileged lot is the Mira Nair-helmed Amelia Earhart biopic, imaginatively titled 'Amelia'. Altogether this promises to be an interesting week - if people don't get tripped up by Von Trier's gory excesses first.



Best of luck, everybody

Damn this week to hell man...Antichrist is the wrench.

ANTICHRIST - 2.5
AMELIA - 2.5
WINGS (1927) - 3

I am almost certain that I am off on all three movies. Good luck to us all.

Antichrist-2.5
Amelia-2.5
Wings-2.5

Antichrist-2
Amelia-2.5
Wings-3.5

Antichrist - **
Amelia - ***
Wings - ***1/2

AntiChrist - ** 1/2
Amelia - ** 1/2
Wings - ***

ANTICHRIST - 0 stars
AMELIA - **1/2
WINGS - ***

I'm probably off on Antichrist and I do wanna see it but I didn't really notice any real praise to it on the TIFF page.


Oh....STEVE WINWOOD! Does anybody in this forum know who he is...besides me.

Antichrist - 3.0 I refuse to speculate that this will see less than 3 stars. Is James by chance re-seeing this before reviewing it? If so I'll go even higher...
Amelia - 3.0 Mira Nair?
Wings - 3.5 I got nothing

Go, go Bondurant (or anyone else who plans to subject JB to Salo)

Antichrist - ** The tone of James' Toronto review definitely reads like a 2-star review. Certainly, the strong acting will be enough to offset the shock factor but not enough for a favorable rating.

Amelia - *** A biopic starring Hilary Swank and directed by Mira Nair sounds pretty solid to me. Could Swank be up for yet another Oscar nomination because of this...?

Wings - *** The very first Best Picture Oscar winner, but it likely hasn't aged all that well...not that it won't still be worth seeing.

Antichrist - 1.5 stars
Amelia - 2.5 stars
Wings - 3 stars

Valerie, count on me, count me Valerie, come and see...I'm the same boy I used to be! Anwser your question?

Antichrist - 2.0
Amelia - 3.0
Wings- 3.0

Antichrist - 2.5
Amelia - 3.0
Wings - 3.0

I have seen it twice. I understood it a little better the second time, but didn't like it any better. I have, however, resolved the issue of how many stars to give it (something I wrote about in the TIFF discussion).

"call on me," actually. That song is about a drug addict who killed herself (or died of an overdose - I don't remember which), based on a real-life incident.

Antichrist - *1/2
Amelia - **1/2
Wings - ***

Antichrist- 2.5 stars

Amelia- 3 stars

Wings- 3.5 stars

Thanks for the info. Sounds like less than 3 stars, but I'm stubborn.

Antichrist - **
Amelia - ***
Wings - ***

Antichrist - 1.5
Amelia - 3.0
Wings - 3.0