Sometimes my kids learn things about me that blow their minds. Earlier this week it was that I haven’t seen the Willie Wonka movies. Tonight it was that I’ve never watched The Wedding Singer. Never. I haven’t consciously avoided it. Just never been in the same room when it was on.
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 …
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