Friday, 11 December 2015
The Quiet Man (1952)
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love.
Thursday, 10 December 2015
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.
Hilarious black comedy; the low-budget shows, but it's lively and immensely entertaining.
Halliwell**: "A Corman quickie, allegedly shot in two days, that is a lively, if occasionally ramshackle, comic delight with a notable cameo from Nicholson as a masocist."
Maltin***1/2: "Classic black comedy...Initially infamous as The Film Shot In Two Days, but now considered one of Corman's best pictures. Nicholson has hilarious bit as masochist who thrives on dental pain..."
Scoop (2006)
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Slight comedy, unpretentiously directed and talkative; entertaining more through the verbal jokes than the plot.
Maltin***: "Larkish comedy-fantasy-mystery plays like an afterpiece to MATCH POINT, also set in London...Endearingly silly and off the cuff, but you may to be a Woodyphile to truly enjoy it. Allen is in good comic form as a walking showbusiness cliche."
Maltin***: "Larkish comedy-fantasy-mystery plays like an afterpiece to MATCH POINT, also set in London...Endearingly silly and off the cuff, but you may to be a Woodyphile to truly enjoy it. Allen is in good comic form as a walking showbusiness cliche."
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Wounded (1997)
After a grizzly-bear poacher kills her fiance and fellow Fish & Wildlife Deptartment officer a woman sets out to track the killer down and discover why the FBI is keeping its case secret from her.
Mediocre, slow-paced and predictable thriller; the stars can't help it, either.
Halliwell (no star): "Dull and implausible revenge drama."
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