What About Bob?
I have written about the influence of Frank Tashlin before, but in 1990 his influence couldn’t have been more heavily felt than in the films What About Bob? and Clifford… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
The Birdman Of Alcatraz
Of the films John Frankenheimer directed Burt Lancaster in, Birdman Of Alcatraz (1962) is perhaps the one that displays the full array of Burt Lancaster’s scope as an actor. The… Read more »
Lancelot du Lac
The narrative of Lancelot du Lac (1976) is a familiar one. The film begins with the Knights of the Round Table returning from their quest for the Holy Grail in… Read more »
She
King Kong (1933) had been a tremendous sensation when it was first released. Its success and legacy have insured its place as one of the seminal feats in the American… Read more »
Kramer vs. Kramer
In 1979, Columbia Pictures released Robert Benton’s film Kramer Vs. Kramer. Almost immediately the film became a hit, and even garnered Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor,… Read more »
La La Land
Damien Chazelle’s La La Land (2016) is in Oscar heaven with fourteen nominations total. This is equally remarkable as it is unremarkable. The Best Picture winners for the past five… Read more »
Rolling Thunder Revue
The documentary form is never more about truth or fiction than your average feature film. It is just another technique, another “fantasy”, another way of presenting a person, story or… Read more »
It’s All True
So much has been written on the films of Orson Welles, finished and unfinished, that it hardly seems necessary to contribute to that discussion at all. But having revisited It’s… Read more »
Booksmart
Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart (2019) tells the coming of age story of two best friends, Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein), on the eve of their high school graduation. And,… Read more »
The Linguini Incident
Is the new bartender Monte a secret agent? Is he a human cannonball? Is he a fugitive from England? These are the questions the waitresses ask themselves at the opening… Read more »
