Men In War is a 1957 film directed by Anthony Mann, from a script by Philip Yordan which was adapted from a novel by someone named Van Van Praag (awesome). Even though the majority of movies of the era were being shot in Technicolor, Men In War is in black and white. I wonder if that [...]
Archive for the ‘What I Watched’ Category
Please Watch: MEN IN WAR (1957).
Posted: May 30, 2011 in Badass Old Guys, Classics, Guns, Movies (M), War, What I Watched0
Which Way Is Up? was directed by Michael Schultz (The Last Dragon) and co-written by Carl Gottlieb (Jaws, The Jerk), which for me are a couple of eye-catching names, but of course, the main draw of this movie is Richard Pryor. As a huge comedy nerd, naturally I hold Richard Pryor in the pantheon, but it [...]
What I Watched: LADY ICE (1974).
Posted: May 29, 2011 in Crime, Movies (L), Pretty Girls, What I WatchedI thought seeing this movie might be interesting because it came out no long after The Godfather (actually right around The Godfather Part II) and it has a major supporting role from Robert Duvall. It’s not totally worthless, but it’s not all that interesting either. It’s The Tourist of its day. Lady Ice stars Donald Sutherland, [...]
What I Watched 5.26.11: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1969).
Posted: May 26, 2011 in Classics, Claudia Cardinale, Movies (O), Pretty Girls, Westerns, What I WatchedTime to pretty up this here website… Not to knock the guys in the cast, but I’m in a Claudia Cardinale kind of mood today. Hopefully y’all can understand the sentiment.
What I Watched 4.1.11: BREAKING POINT (1976).
Posted: April 1, 2011 in Action., Cult Classics, Movies (B), What I WatchedYou think you don’t know about the work of movie director Bob Clark, but you do. You know at least one of his movies better than you know most movies made by Scorsese, Spielberg, or Coppola. Bob Clark is a guy with a weird, sort of wonderful career. He started making waves in the early [...]
The follow-up project from the director of 44 Inch Chest and the director of Anvil! The Story Of Anvil (serving here as writer), Henry’s Crime stars Keanu Reeves, James Caan, Bill Duke, and Vera Farmiga. I can’t throw in my one cent (I’m on a budget) on this one until its theatrical release in April, but now you know [...]
What I Watched 3.28.11: The Whole Wide World (1996).
Posted: March 29, 2011 in Movies (W), What I WatchedThe Whole Wide World is the story of Novalyne Price, a schoolteacher from Texas, and her two-year friendship/relationship with a man named Bob Howard, who is known to the world as Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan The Barbarian, amongst many other great pulp heroes. As an R.E. Howard enthusiast, I had long wanted [...]
What I Watched 3.23.11: TRIANGLE (2009.)
Posted: March 24, 2011 in Boats, Horror, Movies (T), What I WatchedThe next movie in the Christopher Smith filmography, Triangle is as different from Severance as Severance was from Creep. Creep was a solid freakout and Severance was halfway a comedy. Triangle is a big brainfucker. It’s a gigantic artistic leap forward. It’s not so outwardly scary, much more philosophically unsettling. Triangle is about [...]
Well, finally. I had to get around to seeing 2010′s official Best Picture eventually, and it happened this past Sunday. It’s a really good movie, obviously. Was it the best of last year? Not sure. Many people thought so. As much as I admit that I liked The King’s Speech, it still wouldn’t be my [...]
What I Watched 3.20.11: SEVERANCE (2006).
Posted: March 22, 2011 in Horror, Movies (S), What I WatchedThere’s a part of me that wishes this movie to be a documentary about Joan Severance, the actress and model who starred in many late-night cable movies of the 1980s and 1990s. (That part of me is due south.) But Severance is a horror-comedy-horror movie from director Christopher Smith, whose movies I have been [...]
