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 […]
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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 […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: The Champ (1931) Downhill Racer (1969) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Seven Chances (1925) I chose Invasion […]
Continue reading »Breaking Away (1979) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Our next potential classic is a true sleeper hit from 1979, the feel-good bicycle racing film Breaking Away. It seemed to come out of nowhere, making an (albeit brief) star out of Dennis Christopher and launching the careers of his costars […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Breaking Away (1979) Johnny Belinda (1948) Moonlighting (1982) This Could Be the Night (1957) Village of the Damned (1960) I chose Breaking Away because […]
Continue reading »Fighting Caravans (1931) ☆ ☆
Our fourth potential classic of 2015 is one of the more than one hundred film adaptations of the works of popular western author Zane Grey. Fighting Caravans (1931) is a wagon train story of pioneers crossing the West from Missouri to […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Chinatown (1974) Fighting Caravans (1931) Goodbye, My Lady (1956) Hamlet (1948) RoboCop (1987) I chose Fighting Caravans for a couple of reasons. It is […]
Continue reading »Lili (1953) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
We move from Italy to France with our third selection of the year, the musical comedy-drama Lili (1953). It’s an MGM musical, filmed at the California studio, but it certainly seems like France. Parisian-influenced films were certainly popular at the time, […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: The Best Man (1964) Lili (1953) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Running on Empty (1988) Union Station (1950) I chose Lili because it […]
Continue reading »Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) ☆ ☆ ☆
Barbara finally not only chose a foreign language film but chose the first film in this feature that I had not previously seen. So both of our reviews are based on seeing this movie for the first time. Investigation of […]
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