Directed by Lambert Hillyer. Screenplay by Jo Swerling, from the story “Kaleidoscope in K” by A.J. Cronin. Mary Fanshawe (Fay Wray) is the supervising nurse of Hospital Wing K. She’s extremely devoted to & good at her job – her one flaw/weakness being her love for/romantic involvement with mediocrely talented ladies man Dr. “Freddie” Preston […]
Directed by John Ford. Screenplay by Samuel G. Engel & Winston Miller, from a story by Sam Hellman & based on a book by Stuart N. Lake. Once upon a time, Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) – the ex-Marshal of Dodge City – is driving some cattle through Arizona on his way to California with his […]
Directed by John G. Adolfi. Screenplay by Charles Kenyon & Maude T. Howell, based on a story by Edgar Franklin. George Arliss is John Reeves – a shoe-manufacturing magnate with a longstanding professional rivalry with his former shoe-business partner, Tom Hartland. Well – one day, Hartland drops dead of a heart (hart?) attack (while at […]
Directed by Ridley Scott. Written by Callie Khouri. Thelma (Geena Davis) & Louise (Susan Sarandon) are two small-town BFFs who, one weekend, decide to take a road trip to a friend’s cabin to go fishing (even though neither of them knows how to fish…but hey, as Louise says, “Darryl does it, so how hard could […]
Directed by Michael Mann. Story by Gregory Allen Howard, screenplay by Mann, Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson, & Eric Roth. The first 10 minutes of this film are an artistic, jaw-droppingly beautiful masterpiece. A (recreation of a) Sam Cooke performance – interspersed with Muhammad Ali (at this point going by Cassius Clay) training, interspersed with […]
For this momentous post (it’s my 300th, dontcha know?) – I figured I ought to pick a momentous movie…and this seems to fit the bill perfectly. Not only was IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT the first comedy ever to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards – it was also the first film ever to win […]
Directed by Michael Showalter. Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani…ABOUT THEIR OWN LIVES!!! Opening the film with the photos from Nanjiani’s real life (which, by the way, began in Pakistan), backed by an audio segment of one of his standup routines is a nice touch. “He’s like Daniel Day-Lewis, except he sucks,” — […]
Seeing Tom Hanks wander around New York City in BIG (1988) the other day made me realize that it’s been awhile since I’ve watched this ‘Hanks + New York’ charmer of a film. Pulling it up on IMDb, I had to do a double-take at the rating – I cannot believe that it has less […]
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