My patient and virtuous wife wisely feels that the choice of “16 Going on 17″ to represent The Sound of Music in POS(AS)’s Valentine’s Day movie extravaganza gave short shrift to the burning eroticism of Julie Andrews’ and Chritopher Plummer’s performances as Maria and the Captain. Of course she’s right and to rectify this, here [...]
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Film: Great Celluloid Presidents
Monday, February 18, 2008
Here in the United States it is President’s Day, which celebrates the merging of two President’s birthdays into one day that is neither of their actual birthdays but which meets the goal of maximum productivity by minimizing excess holidays and placing them, whenever possible, on a Monday.
With that kind of patriotic ferver in mind I [...]
Film: According To My Wife — Supplemental
Friday, February 15, 2008
My talented and sassy wife feels that she missed a key film in yesterday’s Valentine’s Day themed list. No, not Ernest Takes a Lover (the only film in the Ernest series set in France and directed by Eric Rohmer).
The Sound of Music has it all: singing, Nazis, children, nuns. Most of all it has what [...]
Film: Thanksgiving Turkeys Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Here are five more filmic disaster areas — turkeys if you will — to celebrate Thanksgiving in style. To see the first five click here.
1) Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot – Two stars cross paths in this film – Sylvester Stallone on his way to better things like Tango and Cash, and rising star [...]
Film: Thanksgiving Turkeys — Five Films Hardly Worth The Stuffing
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday coming up this week here in the United States I’m serving a platter of turkey. A bunch of flicks that will make you thankful not to be watching. They are not in order of painful or -lessness.
1 ) The Butterfly Effect – This ludicrous exercise in time travel and [...]