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Read our takes on films of all kinds, from silent pictures and classics from Hollywood’s Golden Age to modern favorites. Comedy, Drama, Action, Horror/Sci-Fi, Musical, Western movies and more are reviewed.
Unforgiven (1992): A Guest Movie Review
Director Clint Eastwood so thoroughly gulled me with this self-serious and anachronistic meditation on women’s issues and gun violence transposed to the 19th-century American frontier (1880 Wyoming, to be specific) that I took away a number of enduring misperceptions from…
Read more →Rage In Heaven (1941): Movie Review
Guest blogger Laura G. writes: Rage in Heaven is an interesting 1941 psychological thriller with a sterling cast comprised of Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, and George Sanders. Montgomery plays Philip Monrell, whose surface wit and charm initially cover the fact that…
Read more →There Ain’t Nothin’ In Room 237…Or Is There?
Why is Jack Torrance reading Playgirl magazine? What’s with all the Native American décor in the Overlook? Why does Jack’s typewriter change color? Which of the Seven Dwarves is the most prominent sticker seen on Danny Torrance’s bedroom door? And,…
Read more →The Phantom of the Opera (1925): Classic Movie Review
The Phantom of the Opera (1925): Classic Movie Review What is the price of fame? According to this 1925 silent classic staring Lon Chaney a deal with the devil…no, no, no that’s Faust; I mean a creepy Phantom. Please excuse…
Read more →Family Plot (1976): Movie Review
The 1976 thriller Family Plot Directed by Alfred Hitchcock is reviewed. Following a string of commercial and artistic successes in the 1950s and early ’60s, Alfred Hitchcock’s career took a plunge after The Birds (1963). Starting with Marnie (1964), Hitchcock…
Read more →Questions The Master Can’t Answer
Do you crave resolution in storytelling? Or are you comfortable with ambiguity—not just in the movies, but in life? Do you seek to create order, or are you perfectly comfortable in chaos? Is your heart in the grip of the past,…
Read more →The Stalking Moon (1969): A Classic Movie Review
Having watched The Law and Jake Wade (1968) recently, I decided to continue working my way through the Warner Home Video Western Classics Collection and watched The Stalking Moon from the same set this afternoon. The Stalking Moon was recently…
Read more →Irene Dunne and The White Cliffs of Dover
By 1944, Irene Dunne was one of the top female stars in Hollywood. A four-time Academy Award nominee for Best Actress, she was in demand by all the major Hollywood studios. In 1943, Dunne signed on to star in a…
Read more →Network (1976): Movie Review
When Paddy Chayefsky wrote his Oscar-winning screenplay for Network (1976) it was supposed to be satirical. Lensed through the 1976 eye I’m sure audiences found an opinion-spouting news anchor and a network devoted to developing reality-based programming as absurd. To…
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