Title ▲ Tws summary Trust Year Viewable | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Classic film noir doesn’t necessarily age well, The Third Man a case in point, cool cover notwithstanding. Slow and stilted by contemporary standards, it nonetheless deserves its status as a benchmark of the genre, if not the perfect rating so many give it. Most intriguingly, it would make a …
WikChip Video
The movie's better than the trailer.
|
||||||
A dramatic survival story amidst panoramic and equally dramatic scenery. The Way Back tells a tale of several men who escape the brutality of a Siberian gulag in the early 40’s to trudge their way through vast expanses of differing landscapes: a fierce Siberian winter, forests, tundra, desert,… |
||||||
The Wild One is an iconic movie better now as an iconic image and line than a motion picture experience. The image? Marlon Brando as an outlaw biker, inspiring popular culture for the next half-century. The line? Whattaya got? You don’t have to be a Jeopardy whiz to k…
WikChip Image
"Whattaya got?"
|
||||||
Hard not to think of The Wind Rises as The Zero Movie, as it’s about the engineer who designed Imperial Japan’s lethal fighter – the dreaded Japanese Zero. Instead, Jirô Horikoshi gets painted in hagiographic terms in a movie nominated this year for an Oscar and a Golden Globe: Best Animate…
WikChip Video
Flights of Fancy in a Fatally Flawed ...
|
||||||
The title sucks, but the movie rocks. Rox tops sux. How does it rock? Let us count the ways.
WikChip Image
Issues? He's got a few.
|
||||||
|
||||||
Their Finest is an exceptionally fine movie, a post-modern take on the decidedly earnest Greatest Generation, British variety. Unfortunately, it takes exceptional effort to find a theater where it’s playing. Speaking of exceptional, Gemma Arterton, Sam Clafin and Bill Nighy are exceptionally…
WikChip Video
Bill Nighy steals the show as a minor...
|
||||||
There’s No Business Like Show Business and there was no show business phonier than vaudeville, till movies. So an overtly phony movie about vaudeville makes for a phony convergence. It was perhaps the last of the musical extravaganzas, a calorically rich compendium of Irving Berlin’s showstoppi…
WikChip Video
Marilyn Monroe & Donald O'Connor: Sta...
|
||||||
The three men who led the Russian Revolution – Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin – come alive in Trotsky, a 2017 Russian miniseries. Caveat emptor, Trotsky is a Putin-era Russian production that takes some dramatic and therefore historical license, plus features at least one R-rated sex scene per e…
WikChip Video
Global tragedy made sleek and sexy
|
||||||
A richly stylized biopic of larger-than-life automotive entrepreneur Preston Tucker, this Francis Ford Coppola movie revels in 1940’s period trappings as much as in its story. Self-consciously retro, nearly surreal, its characters exist just this side of parody. Still, supercharged perkiness li…
WikChip Image
Tucker Combat Car with a Tucker Turret
|