giallo fever (Free subscription) | yesterday
This 1972 Pietro Germi comedy, starring Dustin Hoffman and Stefania Sandrelli as Alfredo and his “awful wedded wife” is never less than entertaining but doesn’t quite match the standard of the director’s earlier Divorce Italian Style , which also starred Sandrelli. The film’s weakness, compared to its predecessor, is that everything doesn’t quite come together. The...
Dennis Perrin (Free subscription) | yesterday
(From A Most Peculiar Weekend , 1966, with Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave) Sit On It (1948) Danny Kaye does, on coffins, cattle, traffic cones, heaping plates of pasta, moose antlers, and June Allyson, for the better part of 88 minutes. With Ozzie Nelson and Hattie McDaniel. Paddles In Lieu Of Pockets (1970) Starving geese invade a nudist colony, ruining the volleyball tournament. With Dean...
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Michael Gough ( above ) was born 96 years ago today in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia, and remarkably, he is still alive . An incredibly sly and versatile English character actor - equally at home reading the dialogue of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Pinter, Berthold Brecht, or Jimmy Sangster (the principal scribe of Hammer horror) - Mr. Gough has worked with more good film directors than you can name - among them,...
watch movies online for free full movie downloads (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
#1 YOUKU : Full Movie Directed by Alexander Korda Produced by Alexander Korda Written by Walter Reisch R. C. Sherriff Starring Laurence Olivier Vivien Leigh Music by Miklos Rozsa Distributed by London Films (UK) United Artists (US) Release date(s) 1941 Running time 128 min. Language English
Sylvia Plath Info (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
In October, my review of Alix Strauss' Death Becomes Them , led to some temporary uncertainly over Aurelia Plath's whereabouts on 24 August 1953 - the afternoon of Sylvia Plath's first suicide attempt. Was she at the theater? Was she at a friends? In Wellesley? Or in some other town? Thanks to BrigetAnna, ~VC, and Jim Long for pointing out that this is something Strauss got right (see the comments...
skippy the bush kangaroo (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
two of our favorites from 80's tv, wildly different, but both incredibly solid in their approach to entertaining their audiences, have passed recently. it's quite ironic that as we enjoy the remake of the prisoner on a&e this week, we find the news that another of our favorite tv ex-spies, edward woodward, has died at age 79. seattle pi : edward woodward , who had a long career on stage and in...
don juan's reckless daughter (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Anna May Wong acted along side some of Hollywood's heavy-hitters during the 20s and 30s (think Douglas Fairbanks, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich), received great acclaim for her onscreen performances, she even has a star on the Walk of Fame and yet she remains fairly unknown today. It seems that, despite the fantastic reviews and the accolade, Hollywood was reluctant to give her any honest to goodness...
Only Hot Actors (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Russell Tovey (born 14 November 1981 in Essex) is a British actor. In March 2009, the actor played a leading role in A Miracle at the Royal Court Theatre as Gary Trudgill, a British soldier returning to Norfolk from abroad. On 8 March 2009 he presented the Award for Best Actress to Margaret Tyzack for her performance in The Chalk Garden at the Laurence Olivier Awards in Grosvenor House. In 2009, Tovey...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy ² . Robert Donat, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and James Cagney. Paul Lukas, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland and Fredric March, who was worth returning to. Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Broderick Crawford, José...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Today's Cinematic Birthdays 11/13 1312 Edward III (of Windsor), not the gay one who gets more cinematic treatment (including Derek Jarman's fascinating take ), but his son. This is the one Shakespeare wrote a play about and the one who Mel Gibson implied to be the bastard son of Braveheart William Wallace, thereby giving the finger to history unless Wallace's sperm could survive years past his death....
The Silver Key (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
I’m no war-monger, nor do I make light of real battles and their terrible cost. But there’s no doubt that mass-combats make for great cinematic drama, especially in their build-up and occasionally in their denouement. Here on the day after Veterans Day, I’m marking the occasion by taking a look back at a film that every battle-aficionado should watch at least once: Henry V . Many...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Just about everyone involved in this 1966 epic about Britain's imperial adventure in Sudan deserves to have sand kicked in their faces Director: Basil Dearden Entertainment grade: D+ History grade: C– Muhammad Ahmad was a Sudanese theocrat and general who in 1881 proclaimed himself Mahdi, a redeemer expected by some Muslims to appear before the day of judgment. He conquered large swathes of...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
. JA from MNPP here, taking us on a journey into the Mythical land of Perseus and his bros. (Or is it Brahs? I can never keep my frat-boy-speak up to date.) Anyway I assume by now we all have witnessed the thigh-thundering glory that is the trailer for the remake of Clash of the Titans ? If not, ye shall behold! . . I took some big pretty screen-grabs over at MNPP if you're interested (with special...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I’m not sure what can be said about Clash of the Titans except that it’s a remake and that it looks to be chock full of sandals, special effects and action. I don’t know too much about the original except that it came out in 1981, had an amazing cast ( Laurence Olivier , Maggie Smith , Burgess Meredith ) and used stop motion animation to create what looks to be a beautiful film....
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Clash of the Titans--the 1981 Geek mythology fantasy starring Harry Hamlin, Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith, with memorable (if anachronistic) f/x from stop-motion animation master Ray Harryhausen–boasts a pretty hefty fan following, especially among Gen Xers for whom the movie is a geek pop touchstone. Still, I think only Harryhausen zealots/purists believe that delightfully clunky block
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