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Tag Archives: Reviews
Untimely Movie Review: Risky Business
Risky Business is a weird movie. It gets a lot of things right, but, even within the context of 80s teenage-themed films, I don’t think it holds up particularly well. It’s not as entertaining as the John Hughes canon. It’s not … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Seger, Commentary, Joel Goodson, Movies, Rebecca De Mornay, Reviews, Risky Business, Tom Cruise, Warner Bros., Warner Brothers
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Untimely Movie Review: Chariots of Fire
Watching a Best Picture winner typically leaves me with one of two reactions. Either, “I completely understand why this won Best Picture,” or “This is a decent / interesting movie, but the field must have been weak that year.” Chariots … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Cross, Chariots of Fire, Commentary, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Movies, Reviews, Vangelis, Warner Bros., Warner Brothers
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Untimely Movie Review: The Shining
The genius of Stanley Kubrick is readily apparent in the opening “segment” of The Shining, in which Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) painstakingly drives to, arrives at, and participates in an almost-real-time job interview. The exquisitely slow burn takes the audience … Continue reading
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Tagged Commentary, Jack Nicholson, Movies, Reviews, Scatman Crothers, Shelley Duvall, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Warner Bros., Warner Brothers
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Halfway Home
I purchased the Warner Brothers 90th Anniversary blu-ray Collection over six years ago. It took me quite a while, but, as I’ve been on a pandemic-fueled review flurry of late, I’ve finally been able to finish the first half of … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Movies, Reviews, Site Stuff
Tagged Blu-Ray, Commentary, Movies, Reviews, Site Stuff, Warner Bros., Warner Brothers
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Untimely Movie Review: Superman
Approaching the turn in the Warner Brothers 50 Film Collection, I encounter a familiar face: Superman. I’m too young to have seen the 1978 movie in a theater, but I’m the perfect age to have experienced the film’s frequent showing as … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Reeve, Clark Kent, Commentary, Gene Hackman, John Williams, Lex Luthor, Lois Lane, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, Movies, Reviews, Superman, Warner Bros., Warner Brothers
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Untimely Movie Review: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is the third film in the Warner Brothers 50 Film Collection that revolves around a central struggle of the individual against institutionalization. Like Cool Hand Luke and A Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest … Continue reading
Untimely Movie Review: The Exorcist
The Exorcist provides another example of a cultural touchstone film that, somehow, I’ve never seen. That’s right—despite owning about 500 movies on disc, and seeing perhaps hundreds more over the years, this one escaped my view. This is the next … Continue reading
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Tagged Commentary, Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Movies, Pea Soup, Reviews, The Exorcist, Warner Bros., Warner Brothers, William Friedkin, William Peter Blatty
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Untimely Movie Review: A Clockwork Orange
The next entry in the Warner Brothers 50 Film Collection is the second Stanley Kubrick offering in the set: A Clockwork Orange. Yet, despite the unmistakably ambitious nature of the film, I found it had more in common thematically with … Continue reading
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Tagged A Clockwork Orange, Alex DeLarge, Commentary, Malcolm McDowell, Movies, Reviews, Stanley Kubrick, Warner Bros., Warner Brothers
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Untimely Movie Review: Dirty Harry
Going from Willy Wonka to Dirty Harry practically gave me the bends. But Clint Eastwood’s signature performance was next up in the Warner Brothers 50 Film Collection. Like Bullitt, this is a movie about police officers in San Francisco. Unlike Bullitt, … Continue reading
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Tagged Clint Eastwood, Commentary, Dirty Harry, Harry Callahan, Movies, Reviews, Warner Bros., Warner Brothers
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Untimely Movie Review: Amadeus
There are two vital pieces of insight I’ve learned about Amadeus in the years since I first saw it. The first was Milos Forman’s observation that the film had not two brilliant stars, but three: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, … Continue reading →