He has had to struggle for every crumb he has gotten while he sees spoiled brats like Bill and Bernadette getting everything and working half as hard. It’s not fair and the audience is meant to empathize with him. Larry Cohen, well-known for the low-budget campy circuit, creates a per...
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Once the mysterious box is opened, the film becomes a strange Twilight Zone episode with screeching sounds. The explosion is open to complete interpretation and changes the dynamic. I had the enormous fortune to view the alternate ending not released in theaters. Mike and Velda’s fates were va...
Here is the opening scene in an advertisement for the film, which moviegoers in 1947 would have seen at the theaters. Incidentally, in the link from Youtube, Ted North-Steven-is credited as Michael North, and I don’t know why because he later went by Ted in the rest of his film...
in theaters equipped for sound. First Stan and Ollie have a round of vase smashing in the living room and Stan announces that he, too, will be leaving the premises. She does draw the gaze of a nearby drunk, as she was scratching her itchy leg in stockings, though, whose attentions ...
“that was fun and I liked the colors of the costumes”. Indeed. And that is why this little musical has been produced by high schools and community theaters everywhere. The parts are great, it’s old school musical comedy and the audience leaves both entertained and in a great mood. We...
We usually end up watching a fair amount of foreign horror films because those end up being the movies we haven’t seen yet. And a lot of times those are really scary for me because they don’t follow the American horror tropes that I know so well. My sister had been thinking on ...
Kevin Costner’s ‘Wyatt Earp’ film was released in theaters just six months after ‘Tombstone.’ Costner would have had a better chance of beating Doc Holliday in a gunfight than beating ‘Tombstone’ at the box office. (‘Wyatt Earp’ made about half what ‘Tombstone’ did; ‘Tombstone...
What’s more efficient, listening to a Keith Olbermann podcast or reading a few articles in the New York Times or the Washington Post?It’s been a while since I sat through a podcast. I think I’ll keep it that way.So, please join my “Society for the Prevention of Any More ...
the tears was never convincing via Williams. The wallowing, self-pitying Marilyn with a streak of manipulation comes off just okay, but becomes tedious with the repetitive and slow script. In the scenes where she is being lionized by fans, her consumption of the adulation is a poor shadow ...