Our first potential classic of 2016 is a movie we were able to see in a theater back in November of last year. Roman Holiday is the movie that brought pixie-ish Audrey Hepburn to international prominence and won her an Academy Award […]
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Roman Holiday (1953)
by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Deliverance (1972) Freaks (1932) The Jazz Singer (1927) Mighty Joe Young (1949) Roman Holiday (1953) I was close to choosing Deliverance because it’s one […]
Continue reading »2015 Classics Wrap-Up
We began the year hoping to see and review a movie every three or four weeks. That notion devolved pretty quickly to every other month. It simply wasn’t a high priority for us in 2015. We found other things to […]
Continue reading »Joy (2015) ☆ ☆
David O. Russell’s films often defy easy description, and Joy is no exception. It is a comedic biographical drama, although it is largely fictional. It posits that family connections are meaningfully important even when family members sue each other or cannot […]
Continue reading »Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
We return to 1950s era horror and science-fiction as we consider the first cinematic version of Jack Finney’s seminal magazine serial and novel The Body Snatchers. Indeed, that lurid, rather clumsy title has, along with the “Invasion” added by the film […]
Continue reading »Creed (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆
Like The Force Awakens, Creed is the seventh entry in a franchise that stretches back to the 1970s. Actually, the Rocky saga is one year older, having begun in 1976. And while this may sound like blasphemy considering how beloved the Star Wars adventures have […]
Continue reading »Star Wars, Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Like most movie fans I too have been looking forward to the new Star Wars adventure, though perhaps less optimistically than most. For me only IV and V — A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back — are really good. And two out of […]
Continue reading »The Good Dinosaur (2015) ☆ ☆ 1/2
What if sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs were not wiped out by a colossal asteroid strike? According to this Disney-Pixar tale, the Earth would now be dominated by dinos who farm and ranch. If the concept is a little […]
Continue reading »Krampus (2015) ☆ 1/2
Every holiday has a dark side and Christmas is no exception. German and Austrian legends hold that “Krampus” lurks about, ready to punish naughty children. Now there is a film about this particular Grinch, and while it has some areas […]
Continue reading »Secret in Their Eyes (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆
This is a Hollywood adaptation of a 2009 Argentinian film with the same title (+ The). The earlier film is a masterpiece which won the Best Foreign Film Oscar; the ending still haunts me to this day. Now Billy Ray […]
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