by aditya | Mar 25, 2021 | Archive
This movie I had certainly heard of and was excited to find on HBO Max. Too bad it sucked. I’ve referred to Cary Grant as “obnoxiously suave”. I think he and Clark Gable could both entertain in the right role, but too often every word out of their mouth says, “I know...
by aditya | Mar 25, 2021 | Archive
This is one of the last silent movies ever, as it came out the year The Jazz Singer did. Somewhat similar plot to Knives Out, except this is no good. A bunch of relatives come to some rich guy’s house wanting money…and the whole thing is so devoid of energy or wit...
by aditya | Mar 25, 2021 | Archive
Although I missed Knives Out when it was in theaters, when I finally watched it late last year I realized what I’d been missing. I absolutely love ensemble-murder-mystery-comedies! So much that I decided to review one for every decade going back to the dawn of film....
by aditya | Mar 25, 2021 | Archive
Terrific plot! A writer (played by George M. Cohan, whose play the film is adapting), bets he can write a bestseller within 24 hours, but at the remote house where he is supposed to write alone suddenly has a lot more people letting themselves in. Someone gets killed,...
by aditya | Mar 23, 2021 | Archive
It would be appropriate to pair Soul with another story about a drawn character who has died but still seeks some sort of closure before he’s completely gone. One of my favorite books of all time is Gary K. Wolf’s Who Censored Roger Rabbit? It’s set in a world where...
by aditya | Mar 16, 2021 | Archive
Of course the LGBT community had kept getting more prominent (and adding more letters) in recent years, but back in 2002 I’d almost had no exposure in media (or in real life that I knew of) to lesbians. The first exposure was the lesbian recurring characters on...
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