I write movie reviews for fun, and to share my opinions and ideas about the most-discussed artistic medium of our time (with the possible exception of television--I would discuss that, but I'm not that interested in it).  My tastes are quite eclectic, as the list below will hopefully illustrate.  In recent years, I have become as much an editor as a writer--my friends Ray Toy, David Zuckman, and David Lichtenstein, and my wife Jill, have been getting into the act (I have specified which reviews below were written by me, and which were penned by a colleague, within the document text).  I hope you enjoy reading them, and feel free to email me at harlandar at yahoo dot com with feedback, suggestions, your own reviews, or anything similar.

CLICK HERE TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE MOST RECENT REVIEWS; THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED EVERY TIME I FINISH A NEW REVIEW, SO BE SURE TO BOOKMARK AND CHECK BACK.  YOU CAN ALSO GO DIRECTLY TO THE MINI-REVIEWS, OR VIEW THE LIST BELOW IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY MOVIE TITLE.  FOR OLDER ISSUES, CHOOSE FROM THE FOLLOWING MENU (FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, I HAVE LISTED THE MOVIES THAT APPEAR IN EACH ISSUE):

 July 1995 (Farewell My Concubine, While You Were Sleeping, Scent of Green Papaya, Time Piece, Immortal Beloved, Muriel's Wedding, The War Room, Hoop Dreams, Clerks, Bar Girls, The Blue Kite, Panther, The 400 Blows, Guarding Tess)

Sept. 1995  (The Wedding Banquet, Dangerous Minds, Apollo 13, The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love, Spanking the Monkey, The Silk Road, Forrest Gump, Much Ado About Nothing {Branagh}, notes)

 December 1995 (Circle of Friends, The Sum of Us, Strawberry and Chocolate, I Love Trouble, Dim Sum, Object of Beauty, Sabrina)

 May 1996  (Mr. Wrong, Leaving Las Vegas, Mr. Holland's Opus, Mystery Science Theatre 3000--the Movie, Winter Light, Mean Streets, The Truth About Cats and Dogs)

  September 1996 (Trainspotting, Mallrats, She's the One, On the Waterfront, Shadowlands, Bauhaus Texas: The Life of Donald Judd, Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography, movie book reviews)

 December 1996  (Star Trek: First Contact, Swingers, Lamerica, Lone Star, Beautiful Girls, non-movie recommendations)

 August 1997  (My Best Friend's Wedding, Out of the Present, What's Love Got to Do With It, The Harrad Experiment, Star Wars, Get Shorty)

 December 1997  (Amistad, Washington Square, Boogie Nights, Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones, Go Fish, Cry, the Beloved Country, more recommendations:  Maya Deren and South Park)

 January 1998  (Two Girls and a Guy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Prizzi's Honor, Pret-a-Porter {Ready-to-Wear}, still more recommendations:  MST3K episodes and Beyond Silence)

 July 1998 (Knock Off, City of Angels, Beyond Silence (full review), Love Serenade, Jumanji)

 Nov. 1998 (Beloved, The Siege, Character, Threesome, personal favorite scenes--note that this feature is updated regularly)

 Feb. 1999  (The Other Sister, Shakespeare in Love, Ma Vie en Rose, U. S. Marshals, Guelwaar)

 Aug. 1999 (Wild Wild West, Eyes Wide Shut, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, The Blair Witch Project {Dave L's review})

Dec. 1999 (The Insider, Three Kings, The Dreamlife of Angels, Can't Hardly Wait, Big Night)

January 2000 (End of Days, Spiral Jetty, The Ciderhouse Rules)

April 2000 (Afterlife, Three Seasons, The Corrupter, Homicide {TV movie}, The Postman)

June 2000 (Dinosaur, American Pie, A Great Day in Harlem, She's Gotta Have It)

November 2000 (Remember the Titans, New York Stories, Girl Interrupted, Remains of the Day, Boys Don't Cry, The Blair Witch Project {Tony's review})

January 2001 (Battleship Potemkin, Cabin Boy, 2001:  A Space Odyssey, Keeping the Faith)

April 2001 (Cast Away, Smoke, Duel, more recommendations:  William Kentridge and the Muvico Egyptian theatre)

July 2001 (Pearl Harbor, Traffic, Kicking and Screaming, A Great Wall, origins)

September 2001 (The Unreviewed:  Movies from the past five years that never made it into the newsletters--this feature is also updated regularly)

December 2001 (Shallow Hal, Galapagos, Disappearance at Sea, Shrek, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, notes:  Spiral Jetty and other news)

July 2002 (Fast Runner, Boys and Girls, But I'm a Cheerleader, I Spy Returns, All-Time Top Ten List)

May 2003 (Holes, Maid in Manhattan, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Curse of the Blair Witch)

December 2003 (Down With Love, Book of Shadows:  Blair Witch II, Citizen Ruth, Zero in Conduct)

August 2004 (Fahrenheit 9/11, Super Size Me, The Station Agent)

December 2004 (Shark Tale, The Motorcycle Diaries, Forget Paris)

February 2005 (Hotel Rwanda, Fat Albert, The Station Agent (Jill's Review), Someone Like You, Lost in Translation)

April 2005 (Robots, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, Kissing Jessica Stein, Going Upriver--The Long War of John Kerry)

October 2005 (The Gospel, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, The Tao of Steve, Guess Who?)

January 2006 (Goodnight and Good Luck, The Wedding Planner, Italian for Beginners, Haiku Movie Reviews)

June 2006 (Over the Hedge, Brokeback Mountain, Suicide Kings, Classics Roundup:  Pather Patchali, The Bicycle Thief, Kon-Tiki)

November 2006 (Tenth Anniversary Issue--Wordplay, Challenge the Wind, Stranger Than Paradise, Readers' Top Ten Lists)

March 2007 (Music and Lyrics, Aguirre Wrath of God, Man on the Moon, How to Eat Fried Worms)

June 2007 (Because I Said So, Borat--Cultural Learings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, The Nomi Song)

July 2007  (Western Roundup:  The Magnificent Seven, The Long Riders, Hang ' Em High)

December 2007  (Superbad, Smoke Signals, Dreams)

April 2008  (Being John Malkovich, Talk to Me, Jesus Camp)

For a second opinion and for more recent releases, you may want to try some of the following web pages of my friends and acquaintances:

Dean Oman's movie page (world traveler who also has good taste in movies)

Chris Malinowski's movie page (database format, to which visitors can add their own reviews--both Jill and I have submitted reviews there)

***Thanks, also, to everyone who has a link from any of the pages above to this page!***

f you like the movie 2001:  A Space Odyssey, I would recommend this page.  For more information about movies, actors, directors, key grips, and the like, I would recommend the Internet Movie Database (also known as IMDB), which is a co-production of Amazon.com.  If you like the Blair Witch Project, check out this page by a friend of mine, which consists of pictures he took at Seneca Creek State Park in Maryland, where much of the movie was filmed.  You might also like to read the restaurant reviews that I submitted to this page.

If you are about to send me a nasty email because I haven't named Eraserhead as my favorite movie of all time, please click here first.  Click here to return to my main page.

This page was last updated on  March 10, 2009.