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Showing posts with label classics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classics. Show all posts
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Battle of Britain (1969) Review

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An all-star cast fills in-between beautiful scenes of aerial combat in this recounting of the famous World War II battle over Great Britain’...
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Saturday, August 09, 2014

The Bobo (1967) Review

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Famous comedian Peter Sellers anchors an excellent cast in this inconsequential yet highly enjoyable comedy about a penniless bullfighter ta...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Forbidden Planet (1956) Review

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A smart, literate script that derived much of its plot form Shakespeare's The Tempest propels this film from what could of been an expe...
Friday, August 16, 2013

The African Queen (1951) Review

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Take two aging stars worried about their careers and one dangerously close to being blacklisted director, stir in a splash of Technicolor, t...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

Monkey Business (1931) Review

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What do you do when you’ve had two smash hit movies adapted from Broadway plays? In the Marx Brothers’ case, they headed West for their firs...
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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Animal Crackers (1930) Review

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Following up their other Broadway hit turned motion picture, the Marx Brothers once again hit pay dirt at the box office with their second f...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Movie Illiteracy

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Hello to the few who read this blog! This will be a short post while I continue writing a longer one which has brought a question to mind:...
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Friday, August 10, 2012

Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) Review

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While Gojira was a serious film about the horrors of nuclear tests, Godzilla, King of the Monsters turned the Japanese original into a mer...
Thursday, August 09, 2012

Gojira (Godzilla 1954) Review

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In 1954, Gojira hit Japanese theaters and was a sensation that eventually spread world wide. For those who don’t know, Gojira is the origi...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012

The Cocoanuts (1929) Review

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This wildly inconsistent movie catapulted the Marx Brothers to fame on the eve of the Great Depression and heralded a new form of utterly in...
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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Dracula (1931 Spanish Version) Review

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Filmed simultaneously as the famous English language version, the Spanish Dracula is now regarded as being technically superior. Using the s...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Dracula (1931) Review

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What better way to celebrate Halloween than with the most famous blood sucker of them all? Supernatural horror films gained acceptance and b...
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Frankenstein (1931) Review

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Halloween fun goes Universal with a review of James Whale’s subversive masterpiece that frightened audiences and packed the theaters. Return...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

The Big Sleep (1946 & 1945 versions) Review

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Bogey and Bacall. At one point those two names were enough to pack movie theaters and this movie shows why. Filled with an ever twisting plo...
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