THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955) – REVIEW

1955 DIRECTOR: Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock's attempt at comedy; Blackest of black, certainly for the time in which this was shot, The Trouble With Harry is that like the majority of comedy vehicles, its shelf life was inevitably limited. The film's most notable boast is that it introduced Shirley MacLaine to the big screen in her…

MEGAMIND (3D)

2010 DIRECTOR: Tom McGrath Preceding Despicable Me (2010) by a few months, Megamind was one of the first wave of 3D Animated movies of the post Avatar 3D era. This and Despicable have a lot in common, both focusing on the redemption of a super villain, in this case the titular Megamind, voiced by the Lenten…

MISSISSIPPI BURNING

1988 DIRECTOR: Alan Parker Loosely based on a real case in 1964, as three civil right activists, two white and one black men where murdered by the Ku Klux Klan, Mississippi Burning takes its' time as it begins by establishing both the old and new school relationship between FBI Agents Hackman and Dafoe, as well…

THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (UNCUT)

1951 DIRECTOR: Christian Nyby & Howard Hawks The Thing is... well, always start with a joke, even a bad one. But in all seriousness, this is where The Thing franchise all began. At the dawn of the Cold War science fiction era, The Thing from another world is definitely one of the better B-movies of…

TARANTULA!

1955 DIRECTOR: Jack Arnold Jack Arnold strikes again, having moved on from the desert where It Came From Outer Space (1953) and then from the depths of The Black Lagoon (1954), we again find ourselves in the midst of what could have been an intellectual thriller, turned monster movie. The problem with Arnold's Sci-Fi monster…

DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (3D)

2012 DIRECTORS: Chris Renaud & Kyle Balda STINKER! One Question: How can a film which adapts a satirical novel about cynical consumerism actually be a cynical consumerist vehicle? When it is called The Lorax, that's when! Proudly declaring that this is made by the creators of Despicable Me (2010), which was quite good, The Lorax is supposed…

STEVE JOBS|

2015 DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs comes a year or so after another biopic of this pioneering computer genius of the modern age, Ashton Kutcher's Jobs (2012). That movie was a decent enough biopic but a relatively tame, by the numbers effort which wore its reverence of its eponymous lead character squarely on…

THE FLYING CLIPPER (aka MEDITERRANEAN HOLIDAY) (CINERAMA, CINEMASCOPE, 70mm, WONDERAMA!… YOU NAME IT!)

Today marks the 64th Anniversary of the premier of This Is Cinerama in New York City on September 30th, 1952. So, today we are taking a look a something a little different. The Flying Clipper (1963) is a 70mm travelogue, described by some as "budget version" of the 1958 Norwegian Cinemircle production, Windjammer: The Voyage Of…

CLIMAX! “CASINO ROYALE”

1954 DIRECTOR: William H. Brown No, it was not Dr. No, starring Sean Connery as James Bond, 007 in 1962 where it all began. Ian Fleming's James Bond began his screen career eight years prior, in an early episode of an anthology drama TV series called Climax! In this U.S. series, the American "Jimmy Bond"…

CASINO ROYALE (1967)

1967 DIRECTORS: Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Val Guest & Richard Talmadge This is the second "filmed" of the three versions of Ian Fleming's inaugural 007 novel. The first was a 1954 episode of the U.S. TV series Climax!, in which James Bond was rewritten as an American, rather than British spy. The latest is the better known…