A separated private detective, Harper (Paul Newman), is hired to find a missing millionaire who everyone seems happy to have lost. The investigation reveals a probable kidnapping and numerous suspects. In the end, Harper finds the missing man and the […]
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Reviews by Mike Marcangelo, guest contributor
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) ✰ ✰ ✰
This early effort from the German director Michael Haneke (who works in multiple languages, including English, and identifies most strongly with Austria) collects 71 sequences about a handful of characters who come together at the climax. The first thing we […]
Continue reading »This Island Earth (1955) ✰ ✰ ½
The 1950s, as the webmaster of Filmbobbery can tell you, were the golden age of science fiction cinema. This Island Earth is an interesting effort from Universal that mixes some real cinematic strengths with glaring weakness that keep it below […]
Continue reading »Night of the Ghouls (1959, released 1987) ½
An older couple, travelling off the beaten path, become frightened by ghosts and report their experience to the Los Angeles police. Fortunately, the cops have an expert in ghosts along with considerable experience with the supernatural, so they investigate and […]
Continue reading »Shock (1946) ✰ ✰ ½
Part of a mini-surge of psychiatric films in the mid to late 1940s (Spellbound, The Snake Pit), Shock stars Vincent Price as a psychiatrist who murders his wife and then becomes the treating physician for the only witness to the […]
Continue reading »A Beautiful Mind (2001) ✰ ✰ ½
John Nash, a Nobel laureate in economics, developed important ideas early in his career while at Princeton as a graduate student that led to a faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While there, he also developed profound hallucinations […]
Continue reading »Theater of Blood (1973) ✰ ✰
London critics snub a Shakespearean actor following his career-capping cycle of some of the Bard’s most difficult plays. Deeply injured, he first tries to steal the trophy for Best Actor and then commits suicide in front of the surprised critics. […]
Continue reading »Rome Adventure (1962) ✰ ✰ ½
Delmer Daves’ dated romance starring Troy Donahue and Suzanne Pleshette may have been forward thinking in 1962 but today seems like a relic from another age. A young American college graduate (Pleshette) flees a conservative college town for Italy and […]
Continue reading »The Story of a Cheat (1936) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sacha Guitry’s inventive comedy about a man writing his memoirs of a life led both honestly and through deceit stands as an early French masterwork. Told entirely via voice over, the film utilizes numerous cinematographic and editorial techniques that were […]
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