This movie passed 3 of 3 tests. It was entered by Madelyn on 2020-07-22 18:01:28. Madelyn said:
Although Aurora is one of the most passive (and absent) Disney princesses in history, the movie makes...
A young man longs to be an artist and fit in with the beatniks. An early Roger Corman film with a great performance by Dick Miller. Lower budget, and lighter in tone than you might expect. Good stuff.
If you’re down in the dumps this may not be the movie for you. Unless… you, like myself, enjoy (if that’s...
This movie passed 1 of 3 tests. It was entered by Rodrigo Ortiz Vinholo on 2020-06-14 01:28:42. Rodrigo Ortiz Vinholo said:
There's Sheila (The White Ghost), Mrs. Wingate Yates Foster, Martha and The...
In one part of the film, Sgt. Joe Kojaku criticizes a young artist’s work by saying that it seems unfinished—like she was searching for something but couldn’t find it. That seems an...
All That Heaven Allows Written on the Wind Imitation of Life The Tarnished Angels Magnificent Obsession Lured
Vertigo Strangers on a Train Shadow of a Doubt The Birds Psycho Rope North by Northwest
From the New York Times news section:
Oscar Nominations 2020: âJokerâ Leads With 11 Nods; Three Others Get 10
âThe Irishman,â...
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We live an age where no one wants to be white if they can help it. That’s why you have honkies like Robert “Beto” O’Rourke pretending be Hispanic, Shaun King pretending...
Hard to imagine a more quintessential example of a Western during the 50s-60s heyday, when they were considered popular entertainment. This glories in the “entertainment,” but not at the...
THE TIGER OF ESCHNAPUR / THE INDIAN TOMB (Fritz Lang, West Germany, 1959) 7
Both a departure and typical for Lang ... the story is silent-era pulp exoticism about forbidden love and opaque local intrigue...
The record revenues reported by Disney this quarter may be as much of a fiction as than the entertainment...
Masterpiece. The imagery, the editing, the score - everything, so good.
The term “greatest film ever made” gets thrown around a bit too cavalierly but few films are more deserving of inclusion in the debate than North by Northwest
North by Northwest is back on the big screen this week - on Sunday and Wednesday, across America. Don't miss it! There'll be plenty of praise for the director and his stars - Cary Grant, James Mason, Eva...
This movie passed 0 of 3 tests. It was entered by ShawmK on 2019-03-16 14:09:22. ShawmK said:
A film about the Atomic Apocalypse with only three characters: two men (one black and one white) and a woman.
Everyone...
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[1]Charles Krafft, “Von Dutch” windmills
Here’s a stumper: if the definition of irony is typically something like “that which goes against expectations,”...
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[1]Bill Hopkins
3. “The corrupt vigour of fascism.”
In early 1958, Time magazine ran a humorous squib titled “Sloane Square Stomp.”[9]...
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[1]“Assume you are what you want to be. Walk in that assumption and it will harden into fact.” — Neville Goddard’s “Law of Assumption” (attributed...