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by Len Mariani
BRINGING UP BABY – (1938) Katherine Hepburn & Cary Grant
When I first saw “Bringing Up Baby” some 25 years ago, it was on a Boston public TV station that showed old movies on Saturday nights. I was literally laughing out loud. It is, in my opinion, one of the funniest s…
by Allan Day
Full disclosure: I have been to a higher plane of existence. At least, that's how it felt at the time. Hallucinogens will do that to you. That is why people seek them out; it's called a “trip” because that's what it feels like: a journey to a different kind of consciousnes…
by Bryan Renfro
Watching "Bachelorette" is one of the more frustrating movie experiences I've had in a while. Maybe because I don't usually seek out more recent comedies, since most of them seem really dumb and pandering. And so, I usually don't bother. Plus this movie seemed from the pitc…
by Len Mariani
Hi, I’m back. Here’s another classic film well worth seeing.
DOUBLE INDEMNITY – (1944)
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, & Edward G. Robinson.
This film came from a book by James M. Cain who wrote quite a few crime novels. It’s told in flashback, so I am not …
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi
The Plot: There are always a couple of films that look like they're going to be the stand outs in the Summer season when the first trailers start to come out. For me, one of th…
by Len Mariani
Hello. Just so you know, I have been a big fan of the classic films for a long time. Certain films I can watch over and over and pick up something that I didn’t notice previously. This is one of my favorites.
NOTORIOUS – (1946) Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman & Claude Rains.…
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
Maybe it's just me, but has this summer's films seemed more violent than usual?
I'm not calling for Hollywood to examine itself, or that our children will be scarred ("Won't someone think of the CHILDREN?"). It's just an observation, …
by Bryan Renfro
As I watched the movie "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters", almost immediately I began to get a very specific feeling. A familiar feeling. An patriotic feeling? Well, maybe a little bit. But I do feel that this fairy tale movie is very different from most traditional version…
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
Much Ado About Nothing
Directed by Joss Whedon
Staring Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Reed Diamond and Fran Kranz
The Plot: One of the great crimes of high school is making students read Shakespeare — at least without watching it be performed first. Stripp…
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
Directed by Marc Forster
Starring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos and Daniella Kertesz
Rated PG-13
The Plot: Much has been said that the film World War Z bares little, if any, resemblance to the 2006 novel of the same name by Max Brooks, and it's true. While…
by Cameron Ross Price
I don’t think the description “Heart Throbbing Romance” has ever been more appropriately applied than to last February’s apocalyptic love story Warm Bodies. Releasing this movie just before Valentine’s day was probably a none-too-subtle attempt to cash in on the feel …
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
The Plot: When the apocalypse comes down, society will quickly reassign how valuable certain of its members are. People who have historically been at the lower, less-appreciated levels - laborers, craftsmen, and others who actually make our world work …
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
The Plot: After the events of Fast 5, Dom (Vin Diesel), Brian (Paul Walker) and the crew have a ton of money and are living life large on the lamb in Spain. Brian and Dom's sister Mia (Jordana Brewster) welcome their first child into the world, and the…
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
The Plot: The story to Fast Five opens just mere seconds after the end of the previous film, Fast and Furious. Truck hijack specialist Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) is on a prison bus, making his way to a 25-to-life stay and the federal penitentiary, e…
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
The Plot: After the NOS-less and bald-man lacking third installment of "Tokyo Drift," the "Fast and Furious" franchise gets back to business, bringing back most of the surviving characters from the first film, and only dropping the "the"s from the title…
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
"You're the answer, son. You're the answer to 'are we alone in the universe'."
"What if I don't want to be?"
This exchange between Clark Kent and his adopted father sums up quite a bit about the latest Superman film Man of Steel, another attempt to r…
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
The Plot: Remember back in 2006, when drifting was all the rage? You'd be driving to the grocery, come back home, rev the engine as you pulled the e-brake and slide sideways into the driveway? No? Well, you must not have been living in Tokyo, where app…
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
The Plot: Didn't get enough fast? Running short of some furious? Well, then, 2 Fast 2 Furious is just the ticket (Get it? Like a speeding ticket? Nevermind.). Picking up a bit after the events of "The Fast and the Furious," disgraced ex-cop Brian O'C…
The Quick & Angry Project: Or, Why View and Review All the Fast & Furious Films in One Week?
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
It was June, 2001. America was going through a boom time. The housing market would never fail, the presidency of George W. Bush was going well, everything was going gan…
by Bryan Renfro
I was immediately drawn just to the title... "I Used to Be Darker". Beautiful and grim, it already begins to set the mood for a film I hadn't even seen yet. That line is taken from a from a Bill Callahan song, and it does in fact perfectly capture the tone of what you a…