The good old fashioned "classic" style American western has taken many forms over the years, from revisionist westerns that lost sight of the true meaning of "Christmas" to "Spaghetti" westerns that took the genre down …
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Movies, and my thoughts on them.
Monthly Movie Reviews – April, 2014
May 1, 2014
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in April. Stats Movies watched – 6 Movies that were new to me – 3 Movies about gunfighters – 3 Monthly Masterpieces – Goldfinger April 18 The Ten …
My Favorite Movies 52: Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
April 14, 2014
Most of Marilyn Monroe's films rank quit high on my list of favorite movies, but if I had to pick just one, I suppose it would have to be Some Like it Hot. Sure, the …
Monthly Movie Reviews – March, 2014
April 1, 2014
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in March. Stats Movies watched – 17 Movies that were new to me – 10 Silent movies – 7.5 Monthly Masterpieces – The Killing of …
I've written many times about so-called "doomed gangster" characters and their noble (and doomed) struggle to rise above a world that just wants to drag them under a sea of conformity. And while these doomed …
Here we are on year five of me actually watching all the shitty best picture nominations so you don’t have to. This year, though a fair amount made it into my top ten list (mostly …
Monthly Movie Reviews – February, 2014
March 1, 2014
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in February. Stats Movies watched – 21 Movies that were new to me – 18 Marilyn Monroe movies – 4 Monthly Masterpieces – Some Like it Hot February 28 A …
I've talked about stoner comedies before, and I've talked about "one crazy night" movies before, today I'll talk about a movie that is both. Obviously, as the perfect mixture of film genres, Harold & Kumar …
Monthly Movie Reviews – January, 2014
February 1, 2014
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in January. Stats Movies watched – 13 Movies that were new to me – 9 Best picture movies worse than Inside Llewyn Davis – 4 Monthly Masterpieces – Kind …
My Favorite Movies 49: The Old Dark House (James Whale, 1932)
January 13, 2014
Of the string of early 1930s Universal Studios horror films for which director James Whale is best known, my easy favorite is The Old Dark House. Not to take anything away from the brilliant Invisible …