Sunday, December 3, 2006
Adrienne Shelley (1966-2006)
Adrenne Shelley was a wonderful actress who appeared in a few of Hal Hartley's movies. Petite and lovely as a doll, she made her film debut in 1989 in Hartley's the Unbelievable Truth and then a year later appeared in Trust with Martin Donovan. Not only a great actress, she was also a scrennwriter...
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Monday, November 27, 2006
Trust starring Martin Donovan and Adrienne Shelley (1990)
This is a fantastic movie. Martin Donovan plays a disturbed mechanical whiz who lives with a psychotic father and Adrienne Shelley plays a pregnant high school student whose father calls her a slut when he learns of her predicament. Adrinnne slugs her dad who prmptly dies of a heart attack. Her...
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Monday, November 13, 2006
Saving Private Ryan starring Tom Hanks and Ed Burns (1998)
I don't know whether or not I liked this movie. It was gory as hell at the beginning, the invasion of the D Day at Omaha Beach. I thought that was kind of a surprise. Not according to this movie. The graphic violence did little to stop wars. People like Bush would be unmoved by the gore and people...
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Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Diva starring Frederic Andrei and Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez (1981)
This is the best movie eve made!!! Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez is the most beautiful woman ever captured on film. She is black. She can sing like a wonderful bird. She is almost six foot tall. She can speak English and French. If I ever meet her, I will ask her to marry me!! What fun this movie...
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Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Flight Plan starring Jody Foster (2005)
Jody Foster stars as a woman who has just lost her husband due to his fall from a building in Berlin thus needs to return to NYC with her little daughter and her husband's corpse in the hull of the airplane. Problem is that she loses her daughter during the flight and nobody believes that she ever...
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Monday, October 30, 2006
Dreamer starring Kurt Russell and Dakota Fanning (2005)
I love movies about champion race horses. I loved Seabiscuit. This movie tells of a determined filly who suffered a devestating leg injury from which trainer Ben (Kurt Russell) delivers her from the vet's lethal syringe to an operation that heals her leg after a long rehabilitation. Behind Ben every...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
The Siege starring Denzel Washington, Annette Benning (1997)
Directed by Edward Zwick, this movie showed a lot of perceptive prophecy. Produced at least three years before 9/11, it brought up a lot of issues that later resulted from that calamity. Denzel Washington plays FBI agent Tony Hub (sic) who has to deal with a lot of angry Islamic agents who have...
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Friday, October 20, 2006
The Departed starring Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon and Leonardo
I have liked many of Martin Scorsese films and hated many of them. I loved Taxi Driver and admired The Aviator partly because I have OCD and could identify with Howard Hughes. I detested Goodfellas and Raging Bull, but the Departed has restored my faith in the value of movies which I was starting to...
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Thursday, September 7, 2006
Bound for Glory starring Keith Carradine (1976)
This was a terrific movie for which Keith Carradine richly deserved his nomination for Best Actor that year. I forgot what a wild life Woody Guthrie must have led. Enormously talented, he was a singer-musician, a political activist and even a literary agent for friend and fellow Okie, Jim Thompson....
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Sunday, August 20, 2006
The North Shore starring Gregory Harrison (1987)
This is a surprisingly entertaining film. Rick Kane, a champion surfer from Arizona wants to try his luck in the North Shore in Hawaii before he gives up surfing. He takes his winnings and goes to the North Shore, the legendary area for surfing and meets Turtle, a fellow surfer and Chandler (Gregory...
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