Written by Michael Clawson 80/100 In a fleet-footed adventure, two clownish peasants with a comical love-hate relationship (famously the inspiration for C-3PO and R2-D2) accompany a princess in disguise and her samurai guard on a trek through enemy territory. In … Continue reading.
Tag: Classic Film
Capsule Review: Down by Law
Written by Michael Clawson 90/100 Jack, Zack, and Bob: a layabout pimp who isn't much of a talker, a downbeat DJ whose way with words is buttery smooth, and an Italian tourist with an ever-growing notebook of American idioms, an … Continue reading.
Capsule Review: Ace in the Hole
90/100 Written by Michael Clawson As charismatic as he is cynical and unscrupulous, down on his luck newspaperman Charles Tatum (Kirk Douglas, fantastic) stumbles on exactly the kind of "human interest" story he can exploit to get himself out of … Continue reading.
Retrospective Feature: High Noon
Written by Rudolph Lambert Fernandez Gary Cooper’s pioneering Western deserves its place in the sun High Noon Film Poster - 1952 The year 2021 marks the 120th birth and 60th death anniversary of Gary Cooper who, after some 100 films … Continue reading.
Episode 93: Preston Sturges: Easy Living / The Lady Eve / Sullivan’s Travels
“When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.”Preston Sturges Links: Apple Podcasts | Castbox | Google Podcasts | LibSyn | Spotify … Continue reading.
Easy Living (1937)
Written by Michael Clawson 90/100 A comedy of coincidence causing chaos and one great big misunderstanding, with an enjoyably balanced combination of slapstick and screwball. Fed up with his wife’s extravagant spending, J.B. Ball, a oafish banker with a fortune … Continue reading.
Make Way for Tomorrow
Written by Michael Clawson 90/100 After raising five kids over five decades of marriage, elderly Lucy and Barkley Cooper are separating. Not because they want to though. No, it’s that with Barkley out of work, he can’t keep up with … Continue reading.
The Blob
Written by Nick McCann 72/100 Just as people flock to movies to escape the fearful thoughts of our current virus lockdown, moviegoers of the 1950s were flocking to movies to escape fearful thoughts of Cold War anxieties. Monster and alien … Continue reading.