House of Destiny 1995, Mira Books. 544 pages (paperback only). $5.99 Janet Leigh Janet Leigh’s first novel covers familiar territory for her: it concerns a resident of Sun Valley, Idaho, who finds his way to Hollywood and gradually rises […]
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Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller (1995)
Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller 1995, Harmony Books. 208 pages. $22.00 1995, Pavilion Books (UK). 208 pages. £12.99 Janet Leigh with Christopher Nickens. Having received her only Academy Award nomination for Psycho, which was Alfred Hitchcock’s […]
Continue reading »There Really Was a Hollywood (1984)
There Really Was a Hollywood 1984, Doubleday & Company. 324 pages. $15.95 Janet Leigh Janet Leigh’s autobiography mainly covers her first sixteen years in Tinseltown, 1947 – 1962. The early part of her life is also discussed, somewhat uncomfortably, […]
Continue reading »Edge of Tomorrow (2014) ☆ ☆ 1/2
While he hasn’t made a lot of science-fiction films, I’ve liked the ones that Tom Cruise has made; I gave both Minority Report and Oblivion four stars apiece. Now he’s got another one, Edge of Tomorrow, a kind of Groundhog Day-alien invasion […]
Continue reading »A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) ☆ 1/2
Seth MacFarlane is a talented satirist who loves to riff on traditional entertainment elements. That’s fine, but he does so with the perspective of a young teenage boy who thinks profanity and scatological humor represent the highest order of humor. […]
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Our ninth classic of 2014 is an oldie — the first filmed version of H. G. Wells’ 1896 trenchant tale The Island of Dr. Moreau, which Paramount Pictures then retitled Island of Lost Souls when they produced it in 1932. Universal had opened […]
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by Barb Lentz The five movies Bob provided for me from which to choose were these: Cross Creek (1983) The 400 Blows (1959) Island of Lost Souls (1932) The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Sunshine Boys (1975) I chose […]
Continue reading »X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) ☆ ☆ ☆
The X-Men series of films seem to be aspiring to ever greater heights as they progress, rewriting history in the creation of cinematic Marvel mythology. The most recent one re-imagined the Cuban Missile Crisis, while this one explains the assassination of JFK and involves […]
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Yes, this is a somewhat different Godzilla than was featured in more than twenty Japanese movies from Toho Studios. Yet much is the same in terms of the Big Guy’s character (especially in the later films) and even the idea […]
Continue reading »The Other Woman (2014) ☆ ☆
I really wanted to like The Other Woman because so few comedies, or any movies for that matter, establish strong female characters and allow them to be as strong and wild as most male movie characters. Lately, though, thanks to gross-out […]
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