Look, there’s no two ways about it: Leslie Halliwell, the English film critic, once described Rio Bravo as “cheerfully overlong”, and he was right. You want a tight, economical, brutal Western, one that doesn’t waste time and kicks you from your seat 80 minutes after the opening credits? That was… Continue reading
Monster movie fans! Godzilla, Mothra, Daimajin have finally arrived! Our GIANT MONSTERS ALL OUT ATTACK series is tearing through this city, crushing the model skyscrapers that are this year’s crappy summer movie fare! Sorry to be so hyperbolic, but we really… oh screw this, you know, and I know, and… Continue reading
Imagine if one of your favorite film comedians–Jacques Tati, Buster Keaton, Jerry Lewis–had somehow, inexplicably, vanished from cinema history. All of a sudden, no Jour de Fête, no Steamboat Bill, no Disorderly Orderly (maybe that last one’s not such a bad idea.) They’d been popular films, hilarious, brought joy and surprise… Continue reading
I actually don’t think there’s an answer to the above question, though I do love The Big Sleep. In my mind, Sleep is a remarkable movie thanks to the fact that Hawks and screenwriters William Faulkner and Leigh Brackett made it their own. None of this “we have to put… Continue reading
