Category: Film Reviews
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Review: The Kids Are All Right (2010)
The Kids Are All Right Rating Director Lisa CHolodenko Screenplay Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg Length 106 min. Starring Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson MPAA Rating R for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some teen drug and alcohol use
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The Morning After #23: November 29, 2010
It’s been a busy weekend. In addition to our Feed the Queue entry (Meet John Doe, I have a review of one new release (Tangled) and several screeners. However, two of the films have not yet released (Black Swan and Somewhere), so I won’t be able to post my reviews of them at this time.…
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Review: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller Rating Director Robert Altman Screenplay Robert ALtman, Brian McKay (Novel: Edmund Naughton) Length 120 min. Starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Corey Fischer, Bert Remsen, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy, Anthony Holland, Hugh Millais MPAA Rating R
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Review: The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Shop Around the Corner Rating Director Ernst Lubitsch Screenplay Samson Raphaelson (Play: Nikolaus Laszlo) Length 99 min. Starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart, William Tracy, Inez Courtney MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 Rating Director David Yates Screenplay Steve Kloves (Novel: J.K. Rowling) Length 146 min. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Bill Nighy, Richard Griffiths, Harry Melling, Julie Walters, Bonnie Wright, Fiona Shaw, Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Helen McCrory, Jason Isaacs, Tom Felton, Timothy Spall,…
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Review: Midnight Express (1978)
Midnight Express Rating Director Alan Parker Screenplay Oliver Stone (Book: William Hayes, William Hoffer) Length 121 min. Starring Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Paul Smith, Randy Quaid, Norbert Weisser, John Hurt, Mike Kellin, Franco Diogene, Michael Ensign, Gigi Ballista MPAA Rating R
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The Morning After #22: November 22, 2010
The first busy weekend of likely several. Today you get my thoughts on the seventh Harry Potter film, Feed the Queue entry Midnight Express, So, here is what I watched this weekend: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART I Next year marks the tenth anniversary of the Harry Potter film franchise. The Sorcerer’s Stone…
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Review: The Band Wagon (1953)
The Band Wagon Rating Director Vincente Minnelli Screenplay Betty Comden, Adolph Green Length 112 min. Starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan, James Mitchell, Robert Gist MPAA Rating Passed (National Board of Review); Approved (PCA)
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Review: Stagecoach (1939)
Stagecoach Rating Director John Ford Screenplay Dudley Nichols (Story: Ernest Haycox) Length 96 min. Starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Louise Platt, George Bancroft, Donald Meek, Berton Churchill, Tim Holt, Tom Tyler MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: Paths of Glory (1957)
Paths of Glory Rating Director Stanley Kubrick Screenplay Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, Jim Thompson (Novel: Humphrey Cobb) Length 88 min. Starring Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson, Joseph Turkel, Susanna Christian MPAA Rating Approved
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The Morning After #21: November 15, 2010
Back to the movie grind stone likely form now through the beginning of the year. With preparations for the Online Film & Television Association Hall of Fame Selection Committee to year-end awards screeners, I’m going to be a busy man. That won’t stop me from putting time in on TV shows when I can find…
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Review: The Best Man (1964)
The Best Man Rating Director Franklin J. Schaffner Screenplay Gore Vidal (Play: Gore Vidal) Length 102 min. Starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Shelley Berman, Lee Tracy, Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Kevin McCarthy, Mahalia Jackson, Howard K. Smith, John Henry Faulk, Richard Arlen MPAA Rating Approved
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The Morning After #20: November 8, 2010
This week’s Feed the Queue review is for the Henry Fonda political drama The Best Man. The rest are all television programs, including a second viewing of the miniseries Harper’s Island, the final episode of the fourth season of Dexter and the more episodes of the first season of Psych. So, here is what I…
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Feed the Queue #19
There was no contest with Paths of Glory easily trumping the split decision between The Great Escape and A Face in the Crowd. Paths of Glory has been added to my queue. I will receive it next week to be watched that subsequent weekend (or watched this weekend if I have time) and reviewed in…
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Review: Stalag 17 (1953)
Stalag 17 Rating Director Billy Wilder Screenplay Billy Wilder, Edwin Blum (Play: Donald Bevan, Edmund Trzcinski) Length 120 min. Starring William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Ricahrd Erdman, Peter Graves, Neville Brand, Sig Ruman, Michael Moore, Peter Baldwin, Robinson Stone, Robert Shawley, William Pierson, Gil Stratton Jr.,Jay Lawrence, Erwin Kalser, Edmund…
