- Red River: A Ron Pearlman recommendation on TCM Tuesday, this Howard Hawkes masterpiece still resonates. Most John Wayne fans have a list of his favorite co-stars, with company favorites like Walter Brennan, Ward Bond and Maureen O’Hara. I’ll go with Montgomery Clift. He’s an absolute monster, and like the greats, can come off as [...]
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MOVIE REVIEW: “The Three Musketeers” (2011) This is an unabashedly stupid movie, but it just might be the *cleverest* stupid movie I’ve ever seen. The film it’s closest to in style, spirit and purpose is “Team America: World Police,” and it its own way, it’s even less restrained, though it’s also far less pointed. There’s [...] Forget John Galt, find my agent! …but Kyle Smith kind of liked it! Threedonia frequenter and sometime poster, Film Critic (that’s right, I said, “film”), Christian Toto was underwhelmed with the first of a proposed three part movie series on Ayn Rand’s most famous work. I don’t want to poach traffic from [...] Still not sure how they’re going to digitally re-work the US being so indebted to the North Koreans, but stranger things have worked in Hollywood. Plus, with the movie seemingly on the shelf for the long-haul, who really cares who’s the villain? With fair warning the full Libertas review of the pre-censored Red Dawn [...] Clean and sober… New Arthur adheres to PC playbook Foster Brooks may spin in his grave when he learns Arthur has gone clean and sober. “Arthur,” the 1981 comedy starring Dudley Moore as a lush who finds love with Liza Minnelli, is being remade with Russell Brand in the leading role. If [...] Did the decade end last year or this year? I always believed it ended on the 10. No matter, here are my Top Fives in Film for the past, er, decade. Read at your own peril, hate at your own whim. 1. Seabiscuit: New Deal preaching aside, a wonderful movie and perhaps the best [...] It takes most directors years to become caricatures of themselves. For Todd Phillips, it took one movie. “Due Date,” Phillips’ latest project, is his follow-up to the immensely popular and successful “The Hangover,” a movie now firmly entrenched in the American zeitgeist. Like the old ball coach, it’s hard to fault one for running [...] These ‘Whites’ are local trash heroes Think about the most extreme country western song you ever heard, a tale of outlaws who cuss and fight and then cuss and fight some more just for giggles. You’ve just scratched the surface of the White clan. “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia,” produced by [...] In honor of this past week’s release of Iron Man 2 on DVD, here’s my review of the film when it was in the theater in May. —————————————— “Who is Tony Stark?” Will that be the chant ringing in the streets? Jon Favereau’s treatment of everyone’s favorite billionaire super-hero has all the touches of [...] “Duck Soup: 2 pudgy thumbs, way up!” I know some of you out there have been film critics. I just stumbled onto this. Tony Katz is looking for a movie critic who is not Roger Ebert to review films for his radio show. Those interested candidates should submit a one-minute audio or video [...] "Don't F this up, Mitchell!!!!"
When it comes to 80s high school movies, there’s no arguing with John Hughes’ king of the hill crown. However, with the possible exception of Sixteen Candles, 23 years after being one of the few people to see Three O’Clock High in the theatre (a $3.6 [...] MOVIES THAT RUINED THE WORLD: Rounders (1998) The Movie John Dahl’s “Rounders” survives on the breadth of a supporting cast that carries much more heft than its leads, or its flimsy and flawed script. Still, this myth-making ode to poker hits enough right notes and is indelibly entertaining. Share on [...] What movies have made the culture a worse place? Not necessarily on their own, but through their machinations through culture, or through audience reaction, or through their influence on cinema? That’s a question I asked myself, and thought I would answer in a new series I hope to continue throughout the Fall – Movies [...] With one of the most dismal summer movie seasons on record, it’s time to pay tribute to the DVD and cable television gods. Turner Classic Movies, American Movie Classics – you are our friends in a time of need. 1. Mister Roberts – It’s a bit hyperbole to use the word heroism, but there [...] One of the few good things about the Burbank Little League season ending, and my umping mask being put in the closet till next Spring, is that I have a lot more time to watch movies (God forbid I actually read a book). As we wait to see what fairly new proud papa JohnFN’s [...] Twilight is here. Given the vampiric abominations screen debut is this weekend (what happened to the July 4th movie holiday?), I wish I could offer some witty, erudite, curmudgeonly quote to cut the teeners and the heartthrobs down to pieces, but nothing I offer could surpass this line from Kyle Smith about New Moon. The [...] Whatever director-writer Joe Carnahan’s plan was for his remake of the 80s television series The A-Team, it didn’t come together. Stuck in the development dungeon for the better part of 10 years, The A-Team feels as if it were pieced together in 10 minutes from 10 different scripts. Nowhere is this more apparent then [...] In the latest installment of Turn It Up Tuesday, had some fun calling Little Steven to the curb, albeit 25 years after the fact, over not knowing (or caring) about the United States’ many instrumental roles in bringing goodness to the world’s occasional evil. Now, however, after finally seeing From Paris with Love, the [...] When Tony Stark delivers his opening speech in Iron Man 2, one wonders if the actor is talking about the character or vice-versa. “Emerging from a cave … like the phoenix …” it’s all tongue-in-cheek, boisterous and as fun as one would expect from Downey’s Stark – a tribute to masculinity, testosterone, heroics – [...] |
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