The Great Unmade Robert Aldrich Romantic Comedy

Various rantings on movies, books about movies, and other things to do with movies

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Movie review - "Metropolis" (1927) ***

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Fascinating for students of cinema history, religious allegory and set design... as a piece of drama it is less effective, with histrionic a...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Movie review - Bond#5 - "You Only Live Twice" (1967) ****

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Its hard not to think of Austin Powers when watching this Bond film, and indeed this has a touch of the sillies about it - it pushes the sta...

TV review - "Mad Men - Season 6" (2013) ***

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This series benefits from Don Draper turning back into a prick and they've realised they can't really go anywhere that interesting w...

Movie review - Bond#4 - "Thunderball" (1965) ****

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My memory of this movie wasn't strong - I remembered too many underwater sequences, an overlong running time and a feeling that it was u...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Movie review - Bond#3 - "Goldfinger" (1964) *****

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The basic elements of Bond were all there from Dr No (Maurice Binder credits, theme music, super villains, sidekicks, so on) and From Russi...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Movie review - Bond#2 - "From Russia with Love" (1963) ****1/2 (warning: spoilers)

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A rare sequel that not only matched the original, it improved on it, building in confidence and creating a marvellously entertaining spy fil...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Book review - "My Lunches with Orson Welles" (2013) by Peter Biskind, Henry Jaglom

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I can't believe at this stage of the game there's new stuff to learn about Welles but this book blew me away - a series of taped lun...
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