There is a strange theme in the plots of the two otherwise enjoyable movies; The Awful Truth (one of my favorite movies, as I explained in my previous blog post) and McLintock! (no masterpiece but …
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My Favorite Movies 5 — The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)
April 20, 2007
Screwball comedies were a popular film genre from the 30's and 40's. The name "screwball comedy" is a pretty apt descriptor, the situations the leads found themselves in were most often quite "screwy" "wacky" "zany" …
The Marx Brothers: As great as you’ve always heard.
March 28, 2007
Like the musicals of the 30s and 40s, the Marx Brothers are a more recent acquired taste for me. Years ago I saw a movie called Brain Donors (a modern version of the Marx Brothers …
The Safari Films of John Ford and Howard Hawks
December 11, 2006
John Ford and Howard Hawks are very tempting to lump together when talking about great American directors. And indeed, their careers roughly parallel each other in length and time period, they are without question two …
I thought I'd take a bit of time to write about some of my favorite movie mantras. I'm talking "mantras" in the loosest sense of the word, basically just any phrase that the central character …
My Favorite Movies 2 — Swing Time (George Stevens, 1936)
November 18, 2005
To start, I'll say that I've never liked musicals. I really hadn't seen any of the "classics" (aside from Westside Story in junior high), but pretty much whenever anyone breaks into song and dance I …
A brief look into why John Wayne was so awesome.
October 25, 2005
To start with, I'll admit that John Wayne didn't have a great range, and most of his roles were just variations on the persona he created for himself. But honestly I can't think of anyone …