Bette Davis was one of the greatest actresses who ever lived, in my opinion. She could pull off sultry sirens, innocent ingenues and beastly characters with equal panache. One only has to watch Dark Victory, All About Eve or Whatever Happened to…
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Jaws: A Fishy Story
Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the Internet, Jim Brymer returns with some thoughts on the quintessential summer blockbuster: Jaws Recently, Avengers: Endgame blasted records for a movie release, surpassing every movie ever released in…
Read more →Guest Review: Come to the “Cabaret”
Cabaret started out as a Broadway show. Actually it started out as a series of stories written by Christopher Isherwood about life in Berlin, post WWI, just before and immediately after the coming of the Nazi party. The original play…
Read more →Guest Review: Mars Attacks!
1996. The President was Bill Clinton, who would be seeking his second term that same year. Coincidentally enough, two astoundingly different alien invasion movies, which also featured their own POTUS’s premiered then too. Independence Day was a blockbuster released on…
Read more →Spy Games: Eye of the Needle
D-Day was the ultimate beginning of the end of World War II on the German front. It was also the end of Operation Fortitude, which involved a intricate plan to convince the Germans that the actual invasion would occur not…
Read more →The Caine Mutiny: What Lies Beneath a Man
Herman Wouk (who is remarkably still with us as of this post at 103), was the author of a book that garnered a Pulitzer Prize: The Caine Mutiny. This would have put it on the radar for a film version…
Read more →Frank Capra Fights the Good Fight
In this post, Jim Brymer looks back at Frank Capra’s Why We Fight series of films. On Dec 7, 1941 the United States was catapulted into the escalating war with the Axis Powers of Germany, Italy and Japan. The event…
Read more →Guest Review: Eight Men Out
I am a huge football fan. That’s American Football to you readers in Europe. We call your “football” soccer here. I will watch a game between two second-tier college teams if I come across it on TV and there…
Read more →Before “The Hustle” There Was “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a movie called Bedtime Story. That movie starred David Niven and Marlon Brando in virtually the same roles, although its ending was more fitting for the era, and the ending of this one…
Read more →Barbara Stanwyck in “Forty Guns”
Barbara Stanwyck was, in my opinion, the quintessential strong woman of film. I never saw a movie where she portrayed a simpering female (unless it was to get her way, proving the “strong woman” status in the first place). Forty…
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