This documentary chronicles the eruption and aftermath on New Zealand’s Whakaari (White Island) in 2019, which resulted in the deaths of 22 tourists and guides who happened to be on the site at the wrong time. It is tightly edited […]
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Classics Introduction (2022)
The idea behind this feature is simple. I want my wife Barbara to see more really good older movies, and I want to see more classics myself, so I determined to start a blog wherein we view and review them. […]
Continue reading »Advise and Consent (1962) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
It’s been almost six years since our last Classic, but we are going to try again, beginning with this fascinating political drama from 1962, Advise and Consent. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Allen Drury — one of the best […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Advise and Consent (1962) California Suite (1978) Hold Your Man (1933) The Lusty Men (1952) Tex (1982) I nearly chose Hold Your Man because […]
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1962 was a great year for movies; this is our second Classic choice in a row having debuted that year. The Music Man opened on Broadway in 1957; it actually beat West Side Story to the Tony award as the Best […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Attack (1956) Enter the Dragon (1973) The Music Man (1962) Prince of the City (1981) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) I […]
Continue reading »Empire of Light (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
At one point during this film the lead character is described as schizophrenic. Unfortunately, that’s the problem with this movie. It has a great deal of merit as a love letter to cinema and the business of movie exhibition, yet […]
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As Steven Spielberg is my all-time favorite film director, it would seem natural that his newest movie, The Fabelmans, which is a thinly-veiled autobiographical account of his childhood and teenage years, would almost automatically become one of my favorite films. But […]
Continue reading »Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
The title for this sequel is unwieldy, and I dislike onions no matter what form. That said, I feel that this sequel is better than the original and a wickedly amusing good time. Rain Johnson’s story finds detective Benoit Blanc […]
Continue reading »Warriors of Future (2022) ☆ ☆
I’m open to watching science fiction from other countries and this is an ambitious futuristic monster movie made in Hong Kong which is making the rounds. It’s an action movie made in the grunge style of a lot of post-apocalyptic […]
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