Tag: #FilmReviews
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
I go to the movies for many reasons. Here is one of them. I want to see wondrous sights not available in the real world, in stories where myth and dreams are set free to play. Animation opens that possibility, because it is freed from gravity and the chains of the possible. Realistic films show…
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Modern Times (1936)
This review will be hard for me. Not because I did not like this movie (I did… a lot), but because I really do not have any idea what I could possibly say about this movie that has not already been said a hundred times by people who are much more well-versed in cinematic and…
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Sunset Blvd. (1950)
So if you’re walking down the street sometimeAnd spot some hollow ancient eyesPlease don’t just pass ’em by and stareAs if you didn’t care, say, “Hello in there, hello” “Hello in There” -John Prine John Prine wrote Hello in There in 1971 in his 20s from the perspective of lonesome elderly folks living a world…
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Rocky (1976)
I will be honest on the top… I do not care for sports movies. Truthfully, I can only name about five I like (most of them are comedies). So I came into this movie with some amount of trepidation. I have seen Rocky before this viewing, but it had to have been a decade since…
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
When I started preparation for this project, I took the AFI Top 100 and shuffled them up. I gave a good solid mix and laid it all out on the calendar. I figured I’d make substitutions here and there if a moment felt right. Maybe I would throw The Shining on in October when it…
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In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Starring the fantastic Sidney Poitier as Mr. Tibbs, I start my journey reviewing movies that often speak for themselves. This procedural crime film from the 1960s deep in the heart of Mississippi, a man is found murdered by a bumbling, small town police force. Throughout the film, you never once get the sense Mr. Tibbs—a…
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A Very Unnecessary Bio
Growing up, I always loved movies. I loved going to them. I loved hitting the video stores after school for a sleepover at my friend’s house. It was always a beautiful escape. Movies took me to far and distant lands I could only dream of while growing up in a small town in Western Arkansas.…