Long-time Filmbobbery readers may recall that I have not been a big fan of the Mission: Impossible film franchise with Tom Cruise. I even wrote a diatribe about the first two films in my fourth issue, titled “Missions Ridiculous.” Well, that tide […]
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) ✰ ✰ ½
The second of Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” adventures is, on the whole, about the same as the first. Its story is darker than the first, pushing the brilliant but eccentric private detective (before there was such a thing) across Europe […]
Continue reading »Scrooge (1935) ✰ ½
The earliest sound version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Henry Edwards’ brief adaptation Scrooge is nothing if not strange. Multiple versions exist and this review refers to the 60 minute edit. Seymour Hicks opens the movie as the grumpiest […]
Continue reading »Paranoid Park (2007) ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Paranoid Park, Gus Van Sant’s adaptation of a youth novel by Blake Nelson, is at its heart a mystery. A teenaged skater, played by amateur Gabe Nevins, drifts towards the toughest skating park in town, Paranoid Park. He meets an […]
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The Korean experience changed the way Americans viewed war. The lack of a clear-cut victory inspired filmmakers to try to make sense of fighting another country’s civil war and risking American lives for an unpopular cause. In many ways the […]
Continue reading »An Industry Losing its Viability?
Doomsaying has become popular sport in America, from the extreme of that crazy California radio prophet being wrong about the end of the world not just once, but twice in 2011, to technology pundits predicting that DVDs will disappear within […]
Continue reading »Hugo’s Worthless Poster
Below, I’ve described how much I like the poster for One for the Money, and how much it makes me want to see the film. The opposite is true for the advance poster for Hugo. I’m not sure I can […]
Continue reading »Hugo (2011) ✰ ✰ ✰
I have to admit that Martin Scorsese — considered by many to be one of the greatest directors of the past quarter-century — has never been one of my personal favorites. I generally like his movies, but I rarely love […]
Continue reading »Why Korea?
I was led to the subject of Korean War movies by Lee Marvin. As I was finishing Lee Marvin: His Films and Career and looking around for a second project to tackle, I kept returning to the fact that Marvin had […]
Continue reading »Advise and Consent (1962) ✰ ✰ ✰
Otto Preminger’s adaptation of Allen Drury’s 1959 Pulitzer Prize winning novel is loaded with Hollywood stars. The film involves a nominee for secretary of state (Henry Fonda) who runs into opposition from a southern senator (Charles Laughton in his final […]
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