Below, I’ve described how much I like the poster for One for the Money, and how much it makes me want to see the film. The opposite is true for the advance poster for Hugo. I’m not sure I can […]
Continue reading »Month: December 2011
Hugo (2011) ✰ ✰ ✰
I have to admit that Martin Scorsese — considered by many to be one of the greatest directors of the past quarter-century — has never been one of my personal favorites. I generally like his movies, but I rarely love […]
Continue reading »Why Korea?
I was led to the subject of Korean War movies by Lee Marvin. As I was finishing Lee Marvin: His Films and Career and looking around for a second project to tackle, I kept returning to the fact that Marvin had […]
Continue reading »Advise and Consent (1962) ✰ ✰ ✰
Otto Preminger’s adaptation of Allen Drury’s 1959 Pulitzer Prize winning novel is loaded with Hollywood stars. The film involves a nominee for secretary of state (Henry Fonda) who runs into opposition from a southern senator (Charles Laughton in his final […]
Continue reading »One Hundred Different Stories
There are ninety-one English-language movies made and released before 2000 in my Korean War Filmography, all of which dramatize some aspect of the Korean War. Some are fictional representations of the war; others are historically authentic. Some take place solely […]
Continue reading »Silent Movies
With the silent French production The Artist vying for Oscar attention this year (which I have yet to see at this writing), this seems a good time to broach the subject of silent films and modern viewing habits. My questions are […]
Continue reading »Question Marks?
All of my review titles are structured as Title, Year, Star Rating. They look perfectly fine when I create them. However, one person has told me that on his computer, my star ratings are question marks. Does anybody else see […]
Continue reading »The Bounty (1984) ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Of the three major versions of the Mutiny on the Bounty story, this one is my favorite. It isn’t as good as the 1935 classic, but I like it better all the same. The Bounty (1984) is the same story as the […]
Continue reading »The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) ✰ ✰ ✰
International intrigue surrounds the choice of a new Pope in the sumptuous version of the Morris L. West bestseller. The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) chronicles the unlikely rise of a priest as he travels from the captivity of a labor […]
Continue reading »The Glass Wall (1953) ✰ ✰ ✰
Another film that touches upon the many difficulties facing immigrants to America is The Glass Wall (1953). The trouble for one “lousy foreigner” (to which is referred in the film) begins when he travels to America as a stowaway, seeking asylum […]
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