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20 movies: The Big Heat (1953)

by Bill on July 27, 2010

Depending on your age, you may remember seeing Glenn Ford in movies and on television. I’m thinking roughly of the 1970′s, perhaps late 60′s. He usually had an avuncular quality. He was a nice, friendly older man. He often played fatherly types. For example, in 1978′s Superman: The Movie he played kindly Pa Kent. So [...]

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20 movies: Tombstone (1993)

by Bill on July 26, 2010

I can think of no better place to start my list of twenty movies than with one of my favourite kinds of movies, the western, and specifically one of my favourite westerns, Tombstone from 1993. If you want something to watch this summer, try this one. While there are many aspects to the movie that [...]

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20 movies you have to see but only if you want to so I guess you don’t have to see them – but you really should!

by Bill on July 20, 2010

I dislike posts and articles that say “you have to” or “you must” and so on. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people online who appear to like being told what to do because such posts tend to do well as far as getting traffic goes. For me, it goes against the grain. Hence, the [...]

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2 much Pink Panther?

by Bill on July 19, 2009

I’m not sure why, but I keep writing about the Steve Martin Pink Panther movies. A day or two ago I put up an assessment of sorts about The Pink Panther 2. I think it may be because I was surprised when I liked the first one. I was expecting a mess with that one, [...]

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Two movies, one Jimmy Stewart

by Bill on July 6, 2009

I’ve been watching quite a few Jimmy Stewart movies lately because I’ve been reading his biography by Marc Eliot. It just seems the thing to do … Over the weekend, I wrote up assessments of two of his lighter films, both directed by Henry Koster and both of which I’ve always enjoyed, though one is [...]

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Movies, books and upkeep

by Bill on May 17, 2009

I guess you could say I did a bit of house-cleaning with my blogs today – a sisyphean task to complete, but I gave it a go. Although Piddleville continues to be an organizational mess, I made a few changes – temporary ones, I hope. (It needs some fixing). One was to create a “book [...]

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Movie critics: Like newspapers, a vanishing breed

by Bill on November 29, 2008

There’s a troubling post and discussion titled “Death to film critics! Hail to the CelebCult!” over at Roger Ebert’s Journal. It’s about the dying out of newspapers, in this case, newspaper film critics, and the cultural trends we’re seeing now in media of all kinds: The crowning blow came this week when the once-magisterial Associated [...]

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Reviews

by Bill on January 1, 2007

3 Godfathers 8 ½ (1963) A Shot In The Dark (1964) A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) Abyss, The (1989) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Affair to Remember, An (1957) Alec Guinness Collection, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Captain’s Paradise, The Kind Hearts and Coronets Man in the White Suit, The Ladykillers, The All That Jazz [...]

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My Wicked, Wicked Ways – review

by Bill on May 1, 2005

The Autobiography of Errol Flynn (1959) by Errol Flynn I just finished reading, and thoroughly enjoyed, My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn, originally published somewhere around 1959, available now through Cooper Square Press (part of Taylor Trade Publishing group). Heavens, what a helluva good read. Is anything he says true? Well, maybe. [...]

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The Big Heat (1953)

by Bill on February 8, 2003

Directed by Fritz Lang Now this is what a noir film should be. Good guys, bad guys, and a lot of dubious ground between them. (Mind you, it’s not a noir film in the strictest sense.) Perspective is everything, I suppose, and perhaps that is why (for me) noir works best in black and white. [...]

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