Subscriber Frank Gutierrez has two more recommendations for Movies Worth Rediscovering, and I heartily concur with his selections. The first is an oldie from 1935; I’ll let Frank briefly describe the plot and his reasons for recommending both titles. Pat […]
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011) ✰ ✰
Although I have enjoyed and given good reviews to a couple of the Twilight films in recent years, I was bored by Breaking Dawn, Part 1. It is so slowly paced, with so little significant action or plot development, that I […]
Continue reading »My Week with Marilyn (2011) ✰ ✰ ✰
Though I have no way to support this thesis, I believe that most people, especially younger audiences, are aware of Marilyn Monroe primarily through her fame — and have never seen her movies. Other than Some Like it Hot, and […]
Continue reading »The Descendants (2011) ✰ ✰ ✰
This low-key feature, set in Hawaii, is a fairly rich character study. George Clooney stars as a businessman whose wife has had a boating accident and lies in a coma. His young daughters are too much for him to handle […]
Continue reading »Without Love (1945) ✰ ✰ ✰
This is the third film that Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn made together and appears to be one of the less remembered. A romantic comedy by the same playwright who created The Philadelphia Story, Without Love documents a marriage based on […]
Continue reading »Requiem for a Dream (2000) ✰ ✰
Requiem for a Dream is the film that truly made director Darren Aronofsky’s reputation and was a well-regarded art film when it was released. A young heroin addict (Jared Leto), his best friend (Marlon Wayans), and his girlfriend (Jennifer Connelly) […]
Continue reading »Europa (1991) ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Europa is the conclusion of Lars Von Trier’s Europe trilogy and announced his emergence as a major filmmaker. The movie begins with Max Von Sydow hypnotizing the audience with a soothing, authoritarian voice over, the first of many signs that […]
Continue reading »Tower Heist (2011) ✰ ✰ ½
Caper movies have been popular for better than half a century now, and show no sign of slowing down. Sooner or later virtually everyone in Hollywood makes one. Caper movies are (supposed to be) fun, clever spits-in-the-eye to authority groups […]
Continue reading »One for the Money
I usually try to avoid high anticipation for upcoming movies because they so often do not or cannot fulfill the hopefulness their publicity generates. In fact, I am happiest when I know the bare minimum about a movie; that way […]
Continue reading »J. Edgar (2011) ✰ ✰
Few Americans have led lives as influential or controversial as the longtime director of the F.B.I, J. Edgar Hoover. Why is it then that no one can seem to make a decent movie about the man? Clint Eastwood is the […]
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