If you didn’t know better you might think the sight of Gene Kelly on rollerskates in Xanadu was just a sad and desperate cashing in on a fad like roller-disco. But Kelly danced in roller skates decades before in the movie It’s Always Fair Weather. It’s not one of his better known performances. But it …
The Birds is both a continuation and a departure for Alfred Hitchcock. A continuation because danger and suspense abound. A departure because this time there is no villain to either discover or await their discovery. The lack of motivation for the arising threat multiplies the sense of foreboding and hopelessness. Probably not best viewed during …
No Country For All Men is a disquieting film from the Coen Brothers that, by all accounts, is faithful to its roots in Cormac McCarthy’s novel. Tommy Lee Jones plays Ed Tom Bell, a lawman who comes to comes to a point in life where enough is enough, but he is sticking at the point …
Leap Of Faith is a conflicted movie. A cynical look at manufactured religion transforms into something else. Crippled teenager Boyd (Lukas Haas) interacts with Jonas Nightingale (Steve Martin) when a miracle show experiences what seems to be a miracle: Jonas: Look, I run a show here. It’s a lot of smoke and noise and it’s …
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