a motor-mouthed, hard-living, on-the-make flapper, a rough draft for Lois Lane and every other go-get-‘em girl reporter character in the canon: Farrell herself parlayed the part into a slightly toned-down variation in the Torchy Blane movies series three years later. Kirk...
Roddenberry’s thorough steeping in the kinds of character relations and story basics familiar in TV thoroughly permeated Star Trek, in the panoply of ethnic and job title archetypes, the thematic and narrative similarities to the Westerns he’d worked on, and the basics of how the crew of ...
Blade and X-Men had hinted that these superhero movies might be going places, but it was Spider-Man that actually went there. But its huge box-office success was thoroughly earned, director Sam Raimi placing Peter Parker's character front and centre (and casting indie star Tobey Maguire rathe...
Money is everything in noir, and this is an early example of how money can even buy you a murder — Davis’s character needs to pay to get an incriminating letter back that will save her from prison. But the key thing with noir, is that money can also never buy you happiness. It ...
A good example would be the character played by Jean-Paul belmondo in “A Bout de Souffle” or the one played by Alain Delon in “Plein Soleil”. Or anything else they perceived as being French for that matter. Kids were spotted carrying a loaf of French bread for instance or going ...
Numerous scenes of the outdoors are featured, and compelling moments are provided. When a pretty snowfall coats the land, this is a tease, as one character’s hopes are ultimately dashed. A cheery landscape such as California or Florida would not have worked as well in this film. ...
The movie tells the story of two London dalmatians and their human owners – who they refer to as “pets” – and a villainess named Cruella De Vil, who wants to buy all the dalmatian puppies she can find in order to turn them into fur coats. When the hero and heroine produce a litt...
settling scores with rival gangs in one-on-one duels with knives and fists. Byzantine gangster intrigue is rendered almost incomprehensible by the fact that every character has a Japaneseanda Korean name, and they all sport identical wide-brimmed hats and trench coats that make them look like th...
s story will roughly end in advance, it makes watching the film to the end well-nigh unpleasant. Nor does that unpleasantness amount to much substance, since Andrej is an incredibly tricky character to root for (owing to the violence he perpetrates), and the film offers little in the way...
“Outrage Coda” takes a shot at deconstructing the yakuza killer narrative in a self-aware, fourth-wall-breaking farce. He tells us a tidy, dumb geezer-gun-for-hire story, and then spends the second half of the movie lampooning the conventions, set-pieces, character “types” and ways ...