Category: Classics & Hitchcock
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Barry Lyndon
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Read more: Barry Lyndon“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport.”
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
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Read more: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)The Manchurian Candidate is one of the most endlessly fascinating paranoid thrillers ever created. Beginning its life as a 1959 novel by Richard Condon, it was adapted into a classic 1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer, which was subsequently taken out of circulation for 24 years after the assassination of JFK. Despite this quarter of…
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Paths Of Glory (1957)
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Read more: Paths Of Glory (1957)There are many great anti-war films. From the most horrific war movie ever, Come And See, to the preparing for a war already lost in Tigerland, these films are riveting. War is the most cruel, vicious and inhuman of man’s endeavors, but never have such endeavors been foisted upon a country’s own soldiers as was…
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Ruthless (1948)
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Read more: Ruthless (1948)Bam Margera wept.
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Breaker Morant
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Read more: Breaker Morant‘Military justice’ about says it all.
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A Face In The Crowd (1957)
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Read more: A Face In The Crowd (1957)A Face In The Crowd made me sick. I hated everything about it. I wanted to reach through the flatscreen and punch Andy Griffith’s grinning mug. Why? Because every minute of this movie reminded me of our sitting Idiot In Chief, Donald Trump. This movie was made in 1957 and was as white as Wonder…
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Duel In The Sun (1946)
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Read more: Duel In The Sun (1946)David O. Selznick wanted another big blockbuster like Gone With the Wind. He had room for plenty more Oscars on the ego shelf where his awards were available for all to ”ooh and aah” and offer praise like, ”You did a hell of a job on that one, Mister Selznick”. There for all to see,…
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Nosferatu (1922)
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Read more: Nosferatu (1922)It has now been a century since the release of the first real vampire movie, F.W. Murnau’s somewhat loose adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. In Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, the names of characters were changed, along with many plot details, and still there was a lawsuit brought by Stoker’s heirs, and a…
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A Handful of 80s British Classics
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Read more: A Handful of 80s British Classics“Don’t threaten me with a dead fish!” Full marks if you can recognize an indignant Withnail trying to be tough with a gruff poacher in a pub. As far as British movies go, Withnail and I gets my vote as the decade’s best alongside the perpetually bewildered Harold Shand in The Long Good Friday. Now…
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The Fountainhead (1949)
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Read more: The Fountainhead (1949)Lines and shadows, shadows and lines. The Fountainhead is all sharp angles defined by shadows defined by shadows so sharp they could cut through the self-servicing philosophy of the artless Rand on the airless moon. Only one director could have made sense of this!!! King Vidor of Galveston Texas. He cut through the angles when…