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 […]
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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; […]
Continue reading »Touch of Evil / Hatari! (10:3)
For this issue I have decided to spotlight two seminal soundtracks by the late, great Henry Mancini. In the late fifties / early sixties, he was The Man for creating hip, melodic, popular film soundtracks. Weaned on Universal product throughout […]
Continue reading »The Big Country (10:2)
The three greatest Western soundtracks, in my view, are those for The Magnificent Seven (Elmer Bernstein), The Cowboys (John Williams) and The Big Country (Jerome Moross). And at the top of that very short, very exclusive list, is Jerome Moross’ wonderful, brilliant score […]
Continue reading »The Wild Geese / The Wild Geese II / The Final Option (10:1)
Slightly behind Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams, I think my next favorite composer is Roy Budd. A jazz pianist, Roy Budd was a familiar sight in London night spots in the 1960s before he was persuaded to try his hand […]
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