After passing a few other, earlier Errol Flynn titles, Barbara has finally selected one, the last real swashbuckler which Flynn made, the very entertaining Adventures of Don Juan (1948). By the time he made Don Juan Flynn was no longer in prime […]
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Blog reviews of classic movies
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Adventures of Don Juan (1948) The China Syndrome (1979) Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955) Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962) The Public Enemy (1931) […]
Continue reading »Roman Holiday (1953) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Our first potential classic of 2016 is a movie we were able to see in a theater back in November of last year. Roman Holiday is the movie that brought pixie-ish Audrey Hepburn to international prominence and won her an Academy Award […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Deliverance (1972) Freaks (1932) The Jazz Singer (1927) Mighty Joe Young (1949) Roman Holiday (1953) I was close to choosing Deliverance because it’s one […]
Continue reading »2015 Classics Wrap-Up
We began the year hoping to see and review a movie every three or four weeks. That notion devolved pretty quickly to every other month. It simply wasn’t a high priority for us in 2015. We found other things to […]
Continue reading »Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
We return to 1950s era horror and science-fiction as we consider the first cinematic version of Jack Finney’s seminal magazine serial and novel The Body Snatchers. Indeed, that lurid, rather clumsy title has, along with the “Invasion” added by the film […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: The Champ (1931) Downhill Racer (1969) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Seven Chances (1925) I chose Invasion […]
Continue reading »Breaking Away (1979) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Our next potential classic is a true sleeper hit from 1979, the feel-good bicycle racing film Breaking Away. It seemed to come out of nowhere, making an (albeit brief) star out of Dennis Christopher and launching the careers of his costars […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Breaking Away (1979) Johnny Belinda (1948) Moonlighting (1982) This Could Be the Night (1957) Village of the Damned (1960) I chose Breaking Away because […]
Continue reading »Fighting Caravans (1931) ☆ ☆
Our fourth potential classic of 2015 is one of the more than one hundred film adaptations of the works of popular western author Zane Grey. Fighting Caravans (1931) is a wagon train story of pioneers crossing the West from Missouri to […]
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