Category: Film Reviews
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Review: Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Bullets Over Broadway Rating Director Woody Allen Screenplay Woody Allen, Douglas McGrath Length 98 min. Starring John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly, Chazz Palminteri, Mary-Louise Parker, Jack Warden, Joe Viterelli, Rob Reiner, Tracey Ullman, Jim Broadbent, Harvey Fierstein, Stacey Nelkin MPAA Rating R for some language
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Review: National Velvet (1944)
National Velvet Rating Director Clarence Brown Screenplay Theodore Reeves, Helen Deutsch (Novel: Enid Bagnold) Length 123 min. Starring Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury, Jackie Jenkins, Juanita Quigley, Arthur Treacher, Reginald Owen, Normal Varden, Terry Kilburn, Arthur Shields, Aubrey Mather, Alec Craig, Eugene Loring MPAA Rating Approved (original); G (re-rated)
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The Morning After #14: September 27, 2010
This week was a bit slower for me, but I did get four films watched (A Patch of Blue, National Velvet, Bullets Over Broadway and Long Day’s Journey Into Night) and the first new episode of Glee this season. So, here is what I watched this weekend: A PATCH OF BLUE Topping this week’s list…
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Feed the Queue #13
Well, as a complete shock to me, one of the four Stanley Kubrick films I have not yet seen wins the day handily. The Innocents came in second.. The Killing is the winner and has been added to my queue. I will receive it next week to be watched that subsequent weekend (or watched this…
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Review: Zorba the Greek (1964)
Zorba the Greek Rating Director Mihalis Kakogiannis Screenplay Mihalis Kakogiannis (Novel: Nikos Kazantzakis) Length 142 min. Starring Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Ierne papas, Lila Kedrova, Sotiris Moustakas, Anna Kyriakou, Eleni Anousaki, George Voyadjis, Takis Emmanuel, George Foundas MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Night of the Hunter Rating Director Charles Laughton Screenplay James Agee (Novel: Davis Grubb) Length 93 min. Starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Gloria Castillo MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: Easy A (2010)
Easy A Rating Director Will Gluck Screenplay Bert V. Royal Length 92 min. Starring Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Dan Byrd, Thomas Haden Church, Patricia Clarkson, Cam Gigandet, Lisa Kudrow, Malcolm McDowell, Aly Michallka, Stanley Tucci MPAA Rating PG-13 for mature thematic elements involving teen sexuality, language and some drug material
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Review: The Piano (1993)
The Piano Rating Director Jane Campion Screenplay Jane Campion Length 121 min. Starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin MPAA Rating R for moments of extremely graphic sexuality
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The Morning After #13: September 20, 2010
It was a lighter weekend than last, but another good weekend on the whole. I saw this weekend’s new release, Easy A; re-watched a film I last saw 17 years ago, The Piano; this week’s feed the queue entry, The Night of the Hunter; the Crete-set feature Zorba the Greek; and several more episodes of…
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Feed the Queue #12
It was a tight competition and a tie has resulted. Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Treasure of the Sierra Madre were the top vote getters followed by The Last Hurrah and the The Untouchables. And when given a choice between a western and anything but a western, I have to go for anything but.…
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Review: The V.I.P.’s (1963)
The V.I.P.’s Rating Director Anthony Asquith Screenplay Terence Rattigan Length 119 min. Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli, Margaret Rutherford, Maggie Smith, Rod Taylor, Orson Welles, Linda Christian, Dennis Price, Richard Wattis, Ronald Fraser, David Frost MPAA Rating Unrated
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Review: The Lion in Winter (1968)
The Lion in Winter Rating Director Anthony Harvey Screenplay James Goldman (Play: James Goldman) Length 134 min. Starring Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton, Jane Merrow, Nigel Stock, Kenneth Ives, O.Z. Whitehead MPAA Rating PG
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Review: Serenity (2005)
Serenity Rating Director Joss Whedon Screenplay Joss Whedon Length 119 min. Starring Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass, Chiwetel Ejiofor, David Krumholtz MPAA Rating PG-13 for sequences of intense violence and action, and some sexual references
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Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Rating Director Edgar Wright Screenplay Michael Bacall, Edgar Wright (Graphic Novel: Bryan Lee O’Malley) Length 112 min. Starring Michael Cera, Alison Pill, Mark Webber, Johnny Simmons, Ellen Wong, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ben Lewis, Nelson Franklin, Kristina Pesic, Ingrid Haas MPAA Rating PG-13 for stylized…
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Review: Ghost (1990)
Ghost Rating Director Jerry Zucker Screenplay Bruce Joel Rubin Length 127 min. Starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Tony Goldwyn, Rick Aviles,Whoopi Goldberg MPAA Rating PG-13
