May 27, 2014
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Highly Recommended Flying Tigers (1942) is an impressive, still exciting example of early wartime propaganda. John Wayne, in his first war movie, stars as the leader of a squadron of mercenary pilots fighting the Japanese in the days before (and, late in the film, after) the attack on Pearl Harbor in a picture brimming with war movie clich s.
Kevin Costner was one of the biggest box office draws throughout the 1980s and 1990s but recent years have not been as kind. A string of poor films (Rumor Has it, Mr. Brooks, 3000 Miles to Graceland…
Highly Recommended The Movie: Growing up in a household with one parent who was an unabashed John Wayne fan, I grew to appreciate his work but in different ways. I have grown to realize that Wayne was a bit of an underrated actor in his time, and with Red River this was one of (if not) his first turn from preconceived notions on his character and how he turns from upstanding protagonist to a …
‘Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At The Isle Of Wight’ will be issued for the first time on Blu-ray on June 17.
Also on July 15: Gurren Lagann movie Blu-ray set & Silver Spoon DVDs
Recommended The Movie: Not even halfway before it was over, my viewing companion christened MGM’s musical Hit the Deck as the “lamest movie ever.” Ouch. If not exactly a classic of the Singin’ in the Rain sort, this 1955 effort still amuses with a fun, perky cast
One of the true film classics of the 1990’s is Memphis Belle , a World War 2 picture that fictionalized the final flight of the crew of the famous B-17 Bomber. It doesn&rsquo…
Highly Recommended Joseph Anthony’s compelling Tomorrow (1972) is by no means a comfortable film, or at least it’s not supposed to be. Long stretches of silence are occasionally broken by awkward, thickly-accented dialogue. Shooting locations are rustic, run-down and lonely