WOMAN IN GOLD (2015) This is a fine historical drama about the efforts of a Los Angeles lawyer named Randy Schoenberg (played by Ryan Reynolds) and an octogenarian Jewish refugee from Austria named Maria Altmann (Dame Helen Mirren) to sue the Austrian Government in an endeavour to reclaim five […]
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) Stanley Kubrick directed only sixteen movies in his lifetime. I unreservedly admired two of them – Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960), the rest I could take or leave. I remain at a loss, however, to understand the […]
ARACHNOPHOBIA (1990) Times have most certainly changed since the days when trip-wires were used to bring down, maim, and kill horses in movies. Today, all animals, birds, fish, even insects and arachnids, are treated with extreme care. The 1990 movie Arachnophobia is proof of this. Not one spider […]
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF (1969) In the opinion of this writer, the screenplay for Support Your Local Sheriff is the funniest ever written for a western. Given that it was the brainchild of William Bowers, the quality of his writing should not come as a surprise for many readers, […]
PETER PAN (1953) Bobby Driscoll was the voice & model for Disney’s Peter Pan. Walt Disney was disappointed in the finished product of his 1953 adaptation of J. M. Barrie’s classic play about the boy who never grew up. Walt felt that Pan […]
FROM HELL (2001) This ‘Jack the Ripper’ Victorian England drama was filmed in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, not in London’s prohibitively expensive East End. The Czech capital provided a convincing impression of 1880s London at a far cheaper cost. Great care […]
THE ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE (1967) The actual garage in Chicago in which the real massacre took place in 1929, was torn down just three months after this picture’s release in 1967. Gangland killings had been commonplace in Chicago during the 1920s, but the execution of seven men by […]
I suppose I could be considered old-fashioned because I definitely prefer musicals that star performers who can actually sing. There have been, in my opinion, far too many musical productions featuring non-singing actors, compelled to screech and warble quite tunelessly. And not all of these monstrosities are recent either. […]
THE DUCHESS (2008) This film looks at the marriage of Georgiana Spencer to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, in 1774, the unique marital arrangement she endured throughout much of the union, and the impact she had on British fashion and the nation’s politics during her time as the […]
BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) Twenty-three year old Michael J. Fox had always been the first choice to portray seventeen year-old Marty McFly, but he was unavailable due to scheduling conflicts with his work on the smash hit TV series Family Ties […]
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