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Classic Movie Review: 'Some Like it Hot'
If you told me that I could only save one legendary film director’s career and the rest were to be destroyed, I would probably choose to save Billy Wilder’s remarkable catalog. Don’t get me wrong, I would miss Alfred Hitchcock or Michael Curtiz or Ernst Lubitsch but Wilder’s catalog has movies I simply cannot live without. The Seven Year Itch, The Apartment, Ace in the Hole, and Some Like It Hot are movies I could not think of losing forever.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
The Iconography of Bogart and Bacall
The Big Sleep is the classic on this week's Everyone's a Critic Movie Review Podcast. We haven’t passed the title card and I am hooked by The Big Sleep. So massive and singular were Bogart and Bacall that Director Howard Hawks flashes up a silhouette of Bogart lighting Bacall’s cigarette and he knows that we know what we are seeing. This duo is so iconic that something as simple as a man lighting a woman’s cigarette is a recognizable image, a signifier of Bogart and Bacall’s couples aesthetic.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'They Live' is John Carpenter at His Best
As a film critic one of my most reviled and despised opinions is that I don't care for John Carpenter’s 1978 horror movie Halloween. I find the film to be amateurish, if I may be frank, with an almost absurd level of over-praise for its filmmaking. Thankfully, my disdain for Halloween was not enough to sour me on the work of John Carpenter as a whole. I was lucky that I stuck with Carpenter as movies like The Fog, Escape from New York and the movie I am writing about today, 1988’s They Live, are genuinely brilliant movies, far more worthy of praise than Halloween.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Be Kind, Rewind: Why We Can Still Enjoy Classic Movies
In honour of its 40th anniversary of release, ScreenRant decided to release an article detailing why horror classic 'The Shining' (1980) has 'not aged well'. In this article, ScreenRant labelled the movie as one that is misogynistic and flippant towards such pressing and sensitive issues as familial abuse.
By Dani Buckley6 years ago in Geeks
A TV Episode from the Eighties Reveals the True Test of Character
In the early 1980s, a cop drama debuted that was unlike any other as this one had two women as the lead detectives. Starring Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly, Cagney and Lacey tackled controversial subjects and didn't shy away from topics that could make viewers uncomfortable. It had a special knack for episodes that challenged belief systems. This was never more visible than in the second episode of the sixth season of the series.
By Rachel Carrington6 years ago in Geeks
My Review of "Les trois couleurs : blanc (The three colors: white)"
Les trois couleurs : blanc (The three colors: white) is a pretty old movie. It came out back in 1994. I wasn't sure what I was going to get myself into but I noticed that it was a revenge movie and I usually can't really resist revenge movies. After watching this movie I noticed how dated it would seem to today's standards. Some of the things that happen in this movie would never be able to happen today but then again some of the motivations would seem pretty toxic as well.
By Brian Anonymous6 years ago in Geeks
The Lost Generation
Jazz didn’t just subtly arrive in Paris, it exploded across the city. It’s generally believed Jazz began in the French Quarter of New Orleans and slowly spread across the states before World War 1. During the War, Lt. James Reese Europe and his small army of segregated African-American Soldiers played across 2,000 miles of French countryside. Lt. Europe was a well-respected bandleader from New York and with his infantry, brought a new music genre to Paris.
By Mae McCreery6 years ago in Geeks
The Lasting Legacy of ‘Victor and Victoria’
The charming, operetta-style film, Viktor und Viktoria was originally released in its native Germany in 1933. It had a wider release as Victor and Victoria, with English subtitles, two years later. The latter is the version I watched for this article. The story has been reimagined several times, most famously as Blake Edwards’ Victor/Victoria in 1982 (with the incomparable Julie Andrews). Some could argue that films such as Some Like it Hot, and Tootsie were also designed with Viktor und Viktoria‘s blueprint.
By MovieBabble6 years ago in Geeks
Classic Childhood TV: Little-Known Gems
When it comes to the pop culture that I was exposed to, it's safe to say that I had an unusual childhood. I clearly remember my mother blaring out 70s boy band, The Osmonds, from the kitchen while I lip-synced Spice Girls, and, later, S-Club Seven, in my bedroom. Mum introduced me to The Jackson 5, while my Dad preferred Pink Floyd and The Who.
By Emma Styles6 years ago in Geeks
