Category: Film Reviews
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Review: A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Clockwork Orange Rating Director Stanley Kubrick Screenplay Stanley Kubrick (Novel: Anthony Burgess) Length 2h 16m Starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering MPAA Rating R (formerly X)
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5 Favorites #102: The Crew of Dune
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. In the 100-plus 5 Favorites posts I’ve done, I’ve focused primarily on actors, rarely…
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Review: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey Rating Director Stanley Kubrick Screenplay Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke (Short Story: Arthur C. Clarke) Length 2h 29m Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Douglas Rain MPAA Rating G
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5 Favorites #101: Ben Affleck
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. There are a lot of actors who’ve stepped behind the camera to make movies…
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Review: Auntie Mame (1958)
Auntie Mame Rating Director Morton DaCosta Screenplay Betty Comden, Adolph Green (Novel: Patrick Dennis) Length 2h 23m Starring Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith, Patric Knowles, Peggy Cass, Jan Handzlik, Joanna Barnes, Pippa Scott, Lee Patrick MPAA Rating Approved
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5 Favorites #100: James Bond Title Songs
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. One of the most enduring characters in cinematic history is James Bond. The debonair…
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5 Favorites Redux #99: Michelle Williams
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. Although her career started on television in 1993 just barely a teenager, Michelle Williams…
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Review: Rear Window (1954)
Rear Window Rating Director Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay John Michael Hayes (Short Story: Cornell Woolrich) Length 1h 52m Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn, Ross Bagdasarian, Georgine Darcy MPAA Rating PG (formerly: Passed (National Board of Review))
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5 Favorites Redux #98: Tony-Winning Stage Musicals & Film Adaptations
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. Seventh-three musicals have won the Tony Award for Best Musical (there was one tie…
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Review: Gaslight (1944)
Gaslight Rating Director George Cukor Screenplay John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston (Play: Patrick Hamilton) Length 1h 54m Starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest, Emil Rameau, Edmund Breon, Halliwell Hobbes MPAA Rating PG (formerly: Passed (National Board of Review))
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5 Favorites Redux #97: Butler, Chastain, Elwes, Grillo, Plaza
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. This week, I’ve chosen to look at films for five individuals, Gerard Butler, Jessica…
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Review: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wizard of Oz Rating Director Victor Fleming Screenplay Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf (Book: L. Frank Baum) Length 1h 42m Starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin, Pat Walshe, Clara Blandick MPAA Rating G (formerly: Passed (National Board of Review))
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5 Favorites Redux #96: Willem Dafoe
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. Acting on film since the early-to-mid-1980s, Willem Dafoe is a character actor of great…
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5 Favorites Redux #95: Films I Would Like to See (from This Week’s Releases’ Stars)
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. It’s been a while since I did a special kind of list like this.…
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5 Favorites Redux #94: Original Horror Films of the 1990s
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. This weekend, Jordan Peele brings his estimable skills at writing horror films to bear…
