Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City features an bank of imaginative vending machines in small holiday cabin park. One of them served Martinis. You think his movies are whimsy and artifice, (they are) and then there are scenes where the actors just do there craft in a way that lets you know how good they are at …
Most of the movies I’m interested in seeing are not generally available online (or for retail in Australia). When I saw Bing Crosby’s A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court had been released on bluray (nicely restored) it was an easy decision to purchase my own copy (from eBay rather than Amazon this time). It …
I had a Blu-ray of The Country Girl sitting on the shelf for ages. Can’t figure out why it took so long for me to watch it. Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly provide great dramatic performances, playing against type. William Holden elevates both of their performances. The story comes from the stage with the three …
It occurred to me tonight that if I was forced on pain of death in order to cross a bridge (of death) and avoid being cast into a gorge of peril to name the movie whose credits are most closely read from beginning to end that I could answer ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ …
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