What happens a career hits a dead-end? I was thinking about Eric Clapton the other day. In the early 1973, Clapton was addicted to drugs and his career was in the dumps. Not very many people remember those times, in part because he rebuilt his career, and his guitar legacy only grew. In America, second … More Left for Dead: Amazing Career Resurrections
Talk about a difficult film to watch. In 1968, mass shootings were rare, although that was the year of two assassinations: Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. Targets was conceptually influenced by the 1966 Texas University tower shooter Charles Wittman, who killed 15 people and injured 31, after first killing his wife and mother. … More Targets, a film by Peter Bogdanovich (film review)
Living (2022) snuck out into theaters with not much fanfare. That’s not unusual in the post-Covid film world. Nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Actor, Best Screenplay), it is one of lead actor Bill Nighy’s best roles. Living refers to the fact that Mr. Williams (Nighy), a county bureaucrat in 1950s London, has only six … More Living (film review) and my favorite Bill Nighy films
Dick Powell, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Montgomery, James Garner, Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum and now Liam Neeson. Actors who have played private eye Philip Marlowe. Snappy dialogue, obtuse characters, flashback narrative, stylish photography, world weary detective – required elements of an old fashioned gum-shoe detective. Cigarette smoke everywhere, hard dames, infidelity, drinking on the job, obscene … More Marlowe (film review)
It’s been forever since a new Fletch film, though Hollywood is littered with failed attempts at launching a third installment. I was cautious about this film, hopeful it wouldn’t disappoint too much. That’s a strange way to approach a film, perhaps more curious than anything. Many writers, directors and actor have been attached to Fletch … More Confess, Fletch (film review)
Here are a few horror films that time has mostly forgotten. These are B-films from the 1960s and 1970s. You won’t find Psycho, Rosemary’s Baby, The Shining or The Exorcist on this list. There are so many, maybe I’ll add a second list. Eye of the Devil (1966) One of MGM’s British-made films on the … More Cheesy Horror Films
Fifty years later, the love story of John Lennon and May Pang is presented onscreen. The Lost Weekend, A Love Story (2023) is a long-form telling of their story in film clips, interviews and news stories. Pang has written about her and Lennon’s time together and appeared on many talk shows in the early 1990s … More The Lost Weekend, A Love Story (film review)
Tom Hanks and Billy Crystal are two of my favorite actors, but I have a question. How the f@&$ did they get so old?! Hanks and Crystal play geezers, at the end of their lives. These are dissimilar characters, but similar stories, and each has a degree of sentimentality. Each film incorporates flashback of happier … More Tom Hanks and Billy Crystal: grumpy old men
Not for the faint at heart, this 2022 remake of the Erich Maria Remarque book, shows the futility and destruction of World War I. The film scored many awards around the world; a magnificent production, but terribly difficult to watch. Nominated for nine Academy Awards, All Quiet on the Western Front received awards for Best … More All Quiet on the Western Front (film review)
This is a terrific film. Call Jane (2022) deserved a huge release; it needs to be seen by every thinking American. The closed-minded won’t see it anyway. With the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, and taking America back to the Dark Ages, this film revisits the past, 1968 to be exact, when women couldn’t … More Call Jane (film review)
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