Highly Recommended Twentieth Century-Fox completely reinvented itself during 1953-54. Prior to 1953, Fox was famous for classy, first-rate movies like All About Eve , Broken Arrow , The Gunfighter (all 1950), The Day the Earth Stood Still , The House on Telegraph Hill , The Desert Fox (1951), Viva Zapata! (1952), Gentleman Prefer Blondes , Titanic , and Pickup on South Street (1953)
Recommended In 10 Words or Less Making a movie from a game works with talented people Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Madeline Kahn, Tim Curry, Clue Likes: Everyone else in the movie Dislikes: Extra-less Blu-Rays Hates: Missing Kahn The Movie It seems like Clue finds its way before my eyes every now and then, and I remember that it’s one of my favorite movies, starring some of my favorite actors, before …
Recommended Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is, by most accounts, a pretty unlikable guy. He’s deceitful, manipulative, self-centered, neurotic, callous and insensitive. He’s just been through an unexpected breakup with a longtime girlfriend, so he’s naturally doing a bit of self-reflection to figure out where everything went drastically, dreadfully wrong
Recommended I didn’t realize it until I was watching the movie, but Next of Kin is actually a style of action movie they don’t seem to make anymore: one that focuses on building up the moral or ethical code of its hero rather than the scheme of the villain. The conflict that Patrick Swayze’s Truman Gates faces is not a ticking time bomb or a mad terrorist, but the way his situation places …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are provided by Music Box Films and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended The Hatfields and McCoys were two hillbilly clans on the West Virginia-Kentucky border who spent a couple of generations killing each other over real and perceived infractions as part of a private war whose after-effects have echoed down the ages, having finally subsumed the entire political culture of the United States.
Highly Recommended The 2004 film Torque came and went, dismissed by most as a forgettable Fast and the Furious knockoff that replaced cars with motorcycles and called it a day.
Rent It The Movie: When I revisited the 2011 World Series earlier in the year, I really enjoyed how the series’ momentum between the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals swung back and forth many times through the course of the series, and that Game 6 “was the most tension-filled and perhaps one of the best in recent Series memory.” And to presumably further the case of this, A&E (in …
Recommended Oops. Every nuclear power from one end of the globe to the other had finally agreed to disarm, and they even cooked up an oversized oven to dispose of all those pesky warheads once and for all
Highly Recommended The Movie: Long before Martin Scorsese would become for lack of a better phrase, Martin Scorsese was hungrily trying to get his personal film Mean Streets some big studio support and distribution, particularly in light of friend Francis Ford Coppola’s success with The Godfather . However Scorsese felt that his was a film closer and truer to his experiences growing up. But not …