Saturday, December 13, 2025

1953 - THUNDER BAY, not one of the better James Stewart/Anthony Mann films.

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The third collaboration between James Stewart and director Anthony Mann was not one of their best.  Stewart plays an oil wildcatter who rais...

1939 - PEACE ON EARTH, 1955 - GOOD WILL TO MEN, a couple of depressing cartoons

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A couple of downer cartoons, Peace on Earth and it's remake Good Will to Men are about nothing less than the end of civilization as we...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

2010 - THE WAY, a modest but very good drama

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After the death of his son who was hiking on the Camino de Santiago a trail that has been a pilgrimage for Christian followers since 1492.  ...
Monday, December 8, 2025

2017 - CHRISTMAS GETAWAY, is the prototypical Hallmark Christmas movie

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Christmas Getaway is a good example of the Hallmark Channel's November and December Christmas movie onslaught.  The film is competently...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

1940 - PINOCCHIO, on the big screen

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Three years in production this is the followup to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  Pinocchio shows the very talented team of Walt Disney...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

1978 - GATES OF HEAVEN, a documentary about the pet cemetery business

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This documentary about the pet cemetery business was what really put Errol Morris on the map as an interesting filmmaker to watch.  Morris...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

2014 - BIG GAME, far fetched but entertaining

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After sitting through the disappointing and frankly ridiculous Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters I was reluctant to take on another tall ta...
Friday, November 21, 2025

1956 - ELENA AND HER MEN aka PARIS DOES STRANGE THINGS

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Ingrid Bergman who had just entered her early 40's is at her most radiant in this film by the great French filmmaker Jean Renoir.  In th...
Monday, November 17, 2025

1958 - WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST, sequel to THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN

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The Colossal Beast is back in this sequel to The Amazing Colossal Man .  After having been presumably killed by a fall off a cliff into a ri...

1965 - A PATCH OF BLUE, a dated interracial love story.

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A young blind girl sitting in the park is befriended by a black man who helps her deal with her hellish home life and teaches her independen...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

2013 - HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS, consider the title

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As children Hansel and Gretel survive the evil witch in the gingerbread house.  They grow up to be a pair of witch hunters who kill witches ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

1993 - THE RETURN OF IRONSIDE, closing the loop.

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The previous post looked at the TV pilot for Raymond Burr's Ironside  series .  The chief selling point of  The Return of Ironside was ...
Monday, November 10, 2025

1967 - IRONSIDE, the TV movie pilot for the series.

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The careers of some actors can take an interesting turn, case in point Raymond Burr.  Burr had entered into the movie business in the 1940...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

1964 - BEDTIME STORY, a farce with Marlon Brando!

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 Marlon Brando the preeminent method actor of his generation, the star of On The Waterfront, A Streetcar Named   Desire, Julius Caesar and...