The Sword in the Stone is the last Disney Animated Feature to be released during Walt’s lifetime. Although The Jungle Book would still have a strong influence from Disney, he did not see it to completion (no doubt adding to the causes of the four year interim between the films, the longest since […]
The Star Packer is one of John Wayne’s early, early westerns and, as such, is as formulaic as they come. It features Wayne alongside regular sidekick George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, with whom he made fifteen films from 1933 to 1943, although this time he’s the baddie. It tells the tale of stranger who […]
Hold that Co-ed must have seemed at the time to be an innocuous little comedy about a Governor, Gabby Harrigan (John Barrymore), and his attempts to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. He does this, in typical 1930’s style, by buying the electorate. In this case, he uses the power of his […]
It’s always a crap shoot when you go to see a free preview, so I had no expectations when I went to see Hot Rod. I suppose that was to it’s benefit. Expecting nothing, I was pleasantly surprised to find a pretty well crafted film that provided a higher than expected level of […]
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Boy, I’m really catching up, aren’t I? About three weeks ago, I resigned myself to the fact that I wasn’t going to get the 365th review up by the end of December 31st. It just ain’t gonna happen. But rather than simply relive my mind of the pressue of feeling the need […]
Jabberwocky was Terry Gilliams’s first solo outing as a director, following his collaboration with Terry Jones on Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Filming from a script he co-wrote with Charles Alverson, Gilliam spins a rather personal tale around the “nonsense poem” by Lewis Carroll.
The story revolves around Dennis Cooper (Michael Palin), and apprentice…cooper […]