Category: Film Reviews
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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…
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Review: Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Make Way for Tomorrow Rating Director Leo McCarey Screenplay Vina Delmar, Helen Leary, Nolan Leary (Novel: Josephine Lawrence) Length 1h 31m Starring Beulah Bondi, Victor Moore, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read, Maurice Moscovitch, Minna Gombell, Ray Mayer, Ralph Remley, Louise Beavers, Louis Jean Heydt, Gene Morgan MPAA Rating Passed (National Board of…
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5 Favorites Redux #93: Sean Penn
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. Sean Penn may have started his acting career in fluff roles in films like…
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5 Favorites Redux #92: Forrest Whitaker
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. Among actors, Forrest Whitaker is a regular treasure. He’s a hardworking, generous actor who…
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Review: Hamlet (1996)
Hamlet Rating Director Kenneth Branagh Screenplay Kenneth Branagh (Play: William Shakespeare) Length 4h 2m Starring Kenneth Branagh, Richard Briers, Julie Christie, Judi Dench, Gerard Depardieu, Reece Dinsdale, Ken Dodd, Rob Edwards, Nicholas Farrell, Ray Fearon, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Ravil Isyanov, Derek Jacobi, Richard Attenborough, Brian Blessed, Rufus Sewell MPAA Rating PG-13
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5 Favorites Redux #91: Dastmalchian, Davis, Elba, Kinnaman, Robbie
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, the all-star cast of The Suicide Squad, a reboot of the first,…
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Review: Lone Star (1996)
Lone Star Rating Director John Sayles Screenplay John Sayles Length 2h 15m Starring Stephen Mendillo, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Pena, Stephen J. Lang, Eleese Lester, Joe Stevens, Gonzalo Castillo, Richard Coca, Clifton James, Tony Frank, Miriam Colon, Kris Kristofferson, Jeff Monahan, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Morton, LaTanya Richardson, Eddie Robinson, Ron Canada, Chandra Wilson, Damon Guy, Dee…
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5 Favorites Redux #90: Matt Damon
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. Who would have thought that the kid who starred in Good Will Hunting would…
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Review: Daylight (1996)
Daylight Rating Director Rob Cohen Screenplay Leslie Bohem Length 1h 54m Starring Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, Jay O. Sanders, Karen Young, Claire Bloom, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Renoly Santiago, Colin Fox, Danielle Harris, Trina McGee-Davis, Marcello Thedford, Sage Stallone, Jo Anderson, Mark Rolston MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview
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5 Favorites Redux #89: Gael Garcia Bernal
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. Because of American audiences’ aversions to making foreign language films blockbusters, it’s not often…
