Category: Film Reviews
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Review: Elmer Gantry (1960)
ElmerGantry Rating Director Richard Brooks Screenplay Richard Brooks (Novel: Sinclair Lewis) Length 146 min. Starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones, Patti Page, Ed Andrews, John McIntire, Hugh Marlowe, Joe Maross, Philip Ober, Barry kelley, Wendell Holmes, Dayton Lummis MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: Melvin and Howard (1980)
Melvin and Howard Rating Director Jonathan Demme Screenplay Bo Goldman Length 95 min. Starring Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat, Elizabeth Cheshire, Mary Steenburgen, Chip Taylor, Melvin E. Dummar, Michael J. Pollard, Denise Galik, Gloria Grahame, Pamela Reed, Dabney COleman MPAA Rating R
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The Morning After #9: August 23, 2010
This week, I’m recapping three films (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Melvin and Howard and Elmer Gantry) and the final episodes of the first season of Torchwood. So, here is what I watched this weekend: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) The proverbial yellow ribbon worn by women when their loves were sent to war.…
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Feed the Queue #8
Another low turn-out week, and without surprise, another tie. And since the two tied films are neither available to watch online, I’m going to take Out of the Past since I skipped it in favor of another film previously. I will also start listing alternates in the polling to hopefully allow less opportunity for ties.I…
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Review: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Rating Director Sydney Pollack Screenplay James Poe, Robert E. Thompson (Novel: Horace McCoy) Length 129 min. Starring Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young, Red BUttons, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Conrad, MPAA Rating M (original); PG-13 (re-rated)
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Review: The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath Rating Director John Ford Screenplay Nunnally Johnson (Novel: John Steinbeck) Length 128 min. Starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon, Russell Simpson, O.Z. Whitehead, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Zeffie Tilbury, Frank Sully, Frank Darien, Darryl Hickman, SHirley Mills, Roger Imhof MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: Harvey (1950)
Harvey Rating Director Henry Koster Screenplay Mary Chase, Oscar Brodney (Play: Mary Chase) Length 104 min. Starring James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Victoria Horne, Jessie White, William H. Lynn, Wallace Ford, Nana Bryant, Grace Mills, Clem Beavans MPAA Rating Approved
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The Morning After #8: August 16, 2010
I’m happy to report that I have gotten everything watched I had to this weekend, but didn’t have time to do more. Here are my brief reviews of They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, The Grapes of Wrath, Harvey and two more episodes of Torchwood. So, here is what I watched this weekend: They Shoot Horses,…
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Review: Inception (2010)
And now for my first 4-star review of 2010. INCEPTION Rating Director Christopher Nolan Screenplay Christopher Nolan Length 148 min. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Marion Cotillard, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Caine MPAA Rating PG-13 for sequences of violence and action throughout.
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Feed the Queue #7
And in a not-so-surprising outcome, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon has been chosen for me. And with a second week in a row of minimal participation, I challenge those who aren’t adding suggestions each week to get involved. I have added She Wore a Yellow Ribbon to my queue today and will receive it next…
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Review: Despicable Me (2010)
I only realized yesterday when I was putting together my belated review of Inception that I had not posted my review of Despicable Me. So, here it is. And, for the curious among you, my Inception review will be up tomorrow. DESPICABLE ME Rating Director Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud Screenplay Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul, Sergio…
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Review: Separate Tables (1962)
Separate Tables Rating Director Delbert Mann Screenplay Terence Rattigan, John Gay (Play: Terence Rattigan) Length 100 min. Starring Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster, Gladys Cooper, Cathleen Nesbitt, Felix Aylmer, Rod Taylor, Audrey Dalton, May Hallatt, Priscilla Morgan MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: Advise & Consent (1962)
Advise & Consent Rating Director Otto Preminger Screenplay Wendell Mayes (Novel: Allen Drury) Length 139 min. Starring Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, Burgess Meredith, Eddie Hodges, Paul Ford, George Grizzard, Inga Swenson, Paul McGrath, Will Geer, Edward Andrews, Betty WHite, Malcolm Atterbury, J. Edward…
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The Morning After #7: August 9, 2010
You never fully realize just how much you have to do during the weekend until you don’t have the full of it to do what you need to do. Suffice it to say, I am severely behind on movies, but managed to at least get two down, but had intended on watching four. Plus, periodically…
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Feed the Queue #6
We have a tie for last week, our first. Between They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? and Out of the Past. Since I had no procedure in place for a tie, I’ve decided to break it myself and choose the film I would rather place in the queue. Now, in this case, I had to go…
