Soon after Jason Alexander found fame as George Costanza on the wacky TV series “Seinfeld,” he made this charming romantic comedy in which he portrays overweight shoe salesman Bernie Fishbine, who falls in love with a pretty Italian psychology student. […]
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The Onion Field (1979) ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
The vast majority of movies about murder concentrate on the crime and / or the resolution of the case, which is quite understandable. Few, however, go past the crime to depict with any depth the disruptive aftereffects which always follow. […]
Continue reading »Attack (1956) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
U.S. military services usually aid movies with military themes and situations, even if those agencies object to particular elements in the script (the best example of this is The Caine Mutiny; the Navy demanded and received a prologue stating that […]
Continue reading »The Hot Heiress (1931) ✰ ✰ ✰
Handsome riveter Hap Harrigan (Ben Lyon) falls in love with beautiful society girl Juliette Hunter (Ona Munson) in this early talkie from Clarence G. Badger. Since this was made soon after the sound era began, The Hot Heiress, like many […]
Continue reading »Anonymous (2011) ✰ ✰ ✰
Was Shakespeare a fraud? That is the tagline for Roland Emmerich’s new drama Anonymous, which supports the theory that Edward De Vere was really the genius known as “William Shakespeare.” The truth will probably never be known, as it has […]
Continue reading »In Time (2011) ✰ ✰ ½
From Andrew Niccol (writer of The Truman Show, writer-director of Gattaca, S1mOne and Lord of War) comes another high-concept film, this one involving time and the aging process. In Time presents a future where people stop aging at 25, but can only […]
Continue reading »Footloose (2011) ✰ ✰ ½
While this is yet another unnecessary remake, it is fairly engrossing and effective, partly because it recycles many of the songs from the original. This time around, Kenny Wormald plays the youngster who can’t believe that a town would outlaw […]
Continue reading »The Mighty Macs (2011) ✰ ✰ ½
As sports films go, The Mighty Macs is pretty routine in all but its subject: women’s college basketball. In fact, I had no idea what the title meant (I thought it was some sort of kiddie movie, especially with its G […]
Continue reading »The Soundtrack Sector
During the last two years of Filmbobbery‘s print run, I wrote reviews of instrumental movie soundtracks, culminating in a final article which summarized my favorites. Those eight reviews are included below, along with scans of the selected CD covers, front […]
Continue reading »Personal Favorite Soundtracks (10:4)
For this, my final issue, I have set myself the task of selecting my top ten favorite soundtracks, which is something I’ve never before undertaken. The following parameters are in place: they must be predominantly instrumental scores, not song scores; […]
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