Tag: mystery
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“Shadows and Fog in the Age of Covid”
1991 and 1992 were considered watershed years for Woody Allen. While Shadows and Fog represented the end of the filmmaker’s ten-year partnership with the failing Orion Pictures, his next movie, Husbands & Wives, represented the end of his partnership with lover Mia Farrow. Husbands & Wives’ creative ambition had been, unfairly in my estimation, juxtaposed…
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Vintage Cable Box: “Rope, 1948”
“By what right did you dare decide that that boy in there was inferior and therefore could be killed??!! Did you think you were GOD, Brandon!!?? Is that what you thought when you choked the life out of him??!! Is that what you thought when you served food from his grave!!?? Well I don’t know…
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Extreme Cinema! “Go Ahead, Make My Day!”
Clinton “Clint” Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure. After earning success in the Western TV series Rawhide, he rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s, and as antihero cop…
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Vintage Cable Box: “Somebody Killed Her Husband, 1978”
“When I was a kid, my father had one word of advice he gave me, I’ll never forget it. You know what he said? ‘Jerome, if ever you are in seriously desperate trouble, remember … that … God, in his infinite wisdom has ordained that I’ll be playing pinochle and you’ll handle the whole thing…
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Vintage Cable Box: “Deathtrap, 1982”
“I want a short-cut, Sidney. And I really don’t care whose yard I cut through, if you understand me.” Deathtrap, 1982 (Michael Caine), Warner Bros. Michael Caine’s Sidney Bruhl, a successful playwright who specializes in the macabre is livid over the terrible reviews for his latest play, Murder Most Fair. His somewhat dizzy, weak-hearted but…
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Vintage Cable Box: “Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, 1981”
“Absence of suspicion often denote presence of danger.” Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, 1981 (Peter Ustinov), American Cinema Peter Ustinov puts on the spirit gum to play the immortal Chinese Sherlock Holmes. Richard Hatch (Apollo from the original Battlestar Galactica) plays Charlie Chan’s Number One Grandson, Lee Chan. He is about…
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Vintage Cable Box: “Still of the Night, 1982”
“I’m a much better shrink than I would have been a second baseman.” Still of the Night, 1982 (Meryl Streep). United Artists Robert Benton is a quiet man. He is not the loud voice in the chorus trying to steal all the attention. He doesn’t speak of style. He doesn’t conduct self-aggrandizing interviews on publicity…
Misadventures in Blissville 