Pat Boone.Pat Boone as a bad boy? Well, he doesn't really play a bad boy in April Love (1957), but his character Nick is sentenced to probation after being arrested for joyriding in Chicago. To keep him out of trouble, his mother sends Nick to his uncle's rural Kentucky farm. Aunt Henrietta welcomes him, but Uncle Jed (Arthur O'Connell) isn't so sure about the big city troublemaker. Nick feels like a fish out of water until he meets a pretty neighbor named Liz (Shirley Jones) and gets involved…
G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra (2009)
Enrigue offers a more nuanced portrait of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, scrapping the binary of cowboy and Indian while also eschewing pat depictions of victimized Natives. His Apachería holds a complex society inhabited by criollos, mestizos, and people of several Indigenous ethnicities, some of whom have acculturated to European ways (indio de razón, or “Indian of reason,” in the lingo of the era). Zuloaga’s smart-mouthed troop functions as a lively microcosm of this world. The lieutenant…
There are some moments, places, little scenes, times of day that really make me feel like I’m living in a Ghibli movie.
me when I want to cry because I cant watch the movie leaks. not because I think im superior but because im in the middle of going through everything atla in chronological order OTL
Before anything gathers into form, there is a trembling that does not yet belong to sight, a faint stirring within shadow, as though feeling out the air. What emerges is neither absence nor void, but a density without edges, a field in which something waits without voicing itself. Out of this condition, images condense, hesitate, and drift, carrying with them the sense that they could just as easily recede. Sleep Has Her House unfolds within this threshold. Rather than presenting a world, it…
Who won Tournament of Champions 7: Kenny Gilbert, Kevin Lee, Jet Tila, or Bryan Voltaggio? For the last time this season, let's dive into the competition and Hunter Fieri jokes!
Jerry gets a live-in job at a womens boarding house. It’s overwhelming but whenever he tries to sneak out, they tell him he’s important to them, so he stays. Movie has very little story, very few good jokes, but some of the best-ever set design. The girls include Gloria Jean, two decades after hurting WC’s ears in Never Give a Sucker, Billy Wilder regular Hope Holiday, and Kathleen Freeman, the only actor in Fritz Lang’s House by the River to also appear in Shrek. Buddy Lester is quite good as…
In early 2016, I started this blog. I had just begun my recovery from some major surgery, and I had some time, along with a relatively new enthusiasm (obsession?) for classic movies. I also had become acquainted with a few other bloggers and wanted so much to be part of this community. Ten years and 150 posts later, I'm still here, still love classic movies, and despite a notable dropoff in post frequency, I felt like celebrating! So in honor of this unexpected milestone, I'm sharing some…
Oh Doctor (1917) Arbuckle’s doctor is a horrible man, abusing his son Buster, straying from his wife at any opportunity, and gambling away the family savings on a hunch. Some people try to scam him but he beats them up, steals a bunch of cash, prospers. An evil movie! – The Cook (1918) A whole different thing, Arbuckle & Keaton coordinating impossible stunts in a kitchen with a running gag that all food orders come out of the same giant pot. Sure it gets weird when The Joker arrives at the…
Christmas is fast approaching so we’re getting some special programmes. The first recording today is Victoria Wood: Seen on TV. It’s hard to imagine anything made about Victoria Wood being anything but brilliant. This is entirely wonderful. Even an interview piece talking about being recognised in public, she keeps having to warn the camera crew about signposts they are backing into, but it’s just natural. There’s a lovely shot of her meeting fans backstage, and they’re wearing the yellow…
List of things that quicken the heart. Almereyda in Metrograph: The early 2000s happened to be a fallow time for me, and it was consoling to think big while gathering footage with a little camera. Magical things were always materializing, flashing by, almost as if the camera were inviting them to happen.
I’ve been pretty open and honest on here about my fraught relationship with horror as a genre. During my prime adolescent years, when you’re supposed to be building a solid foundation, I was either not allowed or too scared to be seeing any horror movies. So my adulthood has been mostly spent playing catch-up. Trying to see the most well-known landmarks, acclimatizing myself to Halloween events, making more of an effort to desensitize myself. Part of the reason is just because it’s always felt…
Watched more care movie.
John le Carré Post Cold War story about a couple of spies. Interesting although not particularly exciting, well written as usual. ★★★★☆ Recommended slow read
Pt 1 - Team Experience Votes Pt 2 - Team Experience Winners Pt 3 - AT LONG LAST THE RESULTS OF THE READERS POLL... WHO SHOULD BE THE NEXT AMY MADIGAN? ELISABETH SHUE in Leaving Las Vegas (1995). What would it take to get her a comeback role? We've spent the last couple of weeks bsessing over a question from a reader (thanks, Brian!) and we got so into discussing it at TFE HQ that we asked all of you to vote on the same question. The Team and Readers were unaware of each others vote totals…
Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor. Another movie, another director, another interpretation of the universe. Packed with action, while also being slowly paced at times, it finds a strong balance between the story and the killings for this to be a nice watch. Five popcorns and it goes into the Movie Vault. To see all 9 photos, visit the article page. This…
The infamously upbeat story of a child who is glad of everything adapted for the screen by producer-star Mary Pickford and screenwriter Frances Marion, with both attempting to tone down the sugar. Home Media Availability: Released in the bargain DVD space I’m glad I broke my legs! When Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, and […]
It’s hard to believe that the 2026 TCM Film Festival – my 12th in-person and 14th overall – will kick off in just two weeks! It seems that I live my entire year waiting for this event; it always seems so far away, and then before I know it, it’s here and gone, and I’m living for the next one. Because of the blink-of-an-eye-ness of it all, I wasn’t impatiently waiting this year for TCM to serve up the final schedule – I was actually savoring the anticipation – and when the schedule did drop, I…
Until recently I’ve had very mixed feelings about what The Mandalorian and Grogu movie might actually be about and how it was being presented in the, until recently, limited marketing. This behind the scenes with Adam Savage and Jon Favreau is increasing my confidence in what I hope will be a fun and inventive new type of Star Wars adventure — in part because of the great care and attention to design details. Art & Design Trees don’t pay off tomorrow. They pay off in a decade. They compound…
One of the best things that theater can do is put a human face on an abstract political issue. That's what The Jungle does for the refugee crisis. Commissioned by London's National Theatre from Good Chance Theatre and premiering at the Young Vic in 2017, it's an immersive experience that tells the story of a refugee camp in Calais, France in 2015 known as The Jungle. Mixed Blood Theatre's production is the first since that original production, which moved to the West End, then Off-Broadway,…
Die frühen Filmschnipsel und Stummfilme des späten 19. und ersten Viertels des 20. Jahrhunderts üben eine besondere Faszination auf mich aus. Vielleicht wegen der Unvereinbarkeit ihrer Magie mit den Schrecken des Kolonialismus und des Ersten Weltkriegs. Oder weil die benutzten Techniken und Tricks meine eigenen kreativen Geister erwecken. So oder so: Mit den Lumière-Brüdern, Georges Méliès und Lotte Reiniger wäre ich gern um die Häuser gezogen. Heute konnte ich ihre Arbeiten auf der großen…
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So, after teaching Charlie Chaplin the one bit of film technique he needed, for the first few years of his career, at least (contiguity editing: the principle that if a character gets kickout of shot frame left, he should fall into the succeeding shot from frame right, preserving his sense of screen direction), Henry “Pathé” […]
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On 29 December 2007, the second series of the BBC's latest adaptation of Robin Hood came to an end with a highly contentious finale where Guy of Gisborne stabbed Marian to death in a jealous rage.It's perhaps not the most interesting thing about these episodes, but although produced as two 45-minute episodes, titled A Good Day to Die and We Are Robin Hood, they ended up originally airing as one single 90-minute compilation, on account of the BBC deciding to strip their Oliver Twist adaptation…
We went and saw Project Hail Mary tonight. Didn't know much about it to be honest. Some people at work had seen it, thought it would be worthy of spending the money on it. Actually we had a movie voucher from Christmas so didn't spend a cent there. I liked the movie apart from basically the last 10 mins. It felt like they might of had the story locked down and some studio exec was like, hey we need this bit added on. I have not read the book but I assume it is better than what I saw? The only…
I had promised Max we'd watch a movie after dinner. After some deliberation, I chose [Shaolin Soccer](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286112/) because it's funny and football-related. Unfortunately, it wasn't on any of my streaming services, so I switched to Stephen Chow's other film, Kung Fu Hustle, which was on Netflix. Max was initially skeptical about watching a movie twice his age, but he started to enjoy it as we watched. His favorite scene was the [knife throwing…
Hamlet (1996)
Fair is fair, as much as I hate Quaritch and Quariitch in equal measure, the look on the latter’s big blue punim when he touched the arrows sticking out of his dead clone-dad’s skeleton-bones was an incredible moment on every artistic level1 and was the most character development any version of this guy has shown so far. I uh—y’know, it’s probably not gonna be channeled into any self-reflection or growth or a desire to turn from the path of violence or anything, but still. ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Oh okay so…
