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This review of Tammy and the Bachelor was chosen in honor of the late Leslie Nielsen, the film’s leading man. I’d never seen the film before, and for the first 15 minutes or so, I wasn’t quite sure what to make…
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In Design for Living, Tom Chambers (Fredric March) and George Curtis (Gary Cooper) are a couple of artistic best friends. Tom is a playwright and George is a painter. They may not be rich, but they’re happy living together in…
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All About Eve (1950) “My name is Addison DeWitt. My native habitat is the theater. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the theatre.” Mr. DeWitt may be…
Read more →Ryan Gosling has recently received critical praise for All Good Things (see Movie Irv’s review on our YouTube channel), while Michelle Williams enjoyed a stay on Shutter Island and recently wrapped work on a film in which she plays Marilyn Monroe. Now, the two indie-film darlings…
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The same year Warner Brothers released 42nd Street (1933), MGM came out with Dancing Lady, a backstage musical complete with a Busby Berkeley style finale. If you had to compare the two, the win would certainly go to 42nd Street,…
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Guest blogger Greg Orypeck writes: In these hard economic times, a little bit of escapism might be a good thing, almost essential, wouldn’t you say? How better to escape than by going into a movie theater, or, okay, watching a DVD in a…
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When 1910s London chorus girl Myra Deauville (Mae Clarke) finds herself out of work, she assumes she’ll be able to find herself a new show soon enough. Two years later and still jobless, she has no choice but to become…
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I became interested in classic film early in my teens. Able to stay up late during summer vacations I passed the time with American Movie Classics. (TCM was still more than a decade away). Despite being weaned in a house…
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Guest blogger Richard Finch writes: Film: In a Lonely Place Country: U.S. Director: Nicholas Ray ***1/2 It’s taken me more than one viewing to warm completely to In a Lonely Place. In the film Humphrey Bogart plays Dixon Steele, a…
Read more →Black Swan Movie Review Natalie Portman has come a long way from playing laser-blasting royalty for George Lucas—now capturing the leading role in one of the most anticipated films of the year, director Darren Aronofsky‘s Black Swan. A potent mix of showbiz melodrama…
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