Magic Mike (dir. Steven Soderberg, 2011) – Despite a lot of time trying to find reasons to validate this film from a critical perspective, it seems mainly noteworthy for being…
We’ll see how this goes. It’s going to start as a list, with attempts to fill in the space between titles with whatever jumps to memory. All About My Mother…
Mouchette (dir. Robert Bresson, 1967) – And that completes half of Bresson’s oeuvre. Still need to see the first two and the last four. Mouchette contains many clear similarities with…
A recent cinematic crush on Billy Wilder prompted another sampling of his work, this time the infamous The Lost Weekend. Knowing of Wilder’s later career comedies has made the earlier,…
When the movie studio renamed Ace In The Hole to call it The Big Carnival in order to attract greater crowds (how fitting), they may have picked a more clever…
How refreshing to experience a film so critical of the system that undergirds film itself. And how fitting that Hollywood is located on the West Coast of the US, the…
When there’s no time for thinking, let alone writing, time will be made for quickies. Gran Torino (dir. Clint Eastwood): Great, small movie. Eastwood is a competent director and as…
Containing performances from Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and William Holden, Billy Wilder’s supremely enjoyable Sabrina, which would have succeeded at least as well had Cary Grant remained in the role…
Though Some Like It Hot is often regarded as simply “the greatest American comedy of all-time” (AFI – which should be taken with a gigantic grain of salt) or a…
