Category: Reviews
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The Outlaw (1943)
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Read more: The Outlaw (1943)Over 80 years after its release, perhaps the best-known thing about Howard Hughes’s The Outlaw is still the controversy over how much (or how little, by today’s standards) of Jane Russell’s breasts are on display. Hughes was forced by the Hollywood Production Code Administration to remove about 30 seconds of offending footage, but even after…
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
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Read more: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire“Loud and Stompy” Should I really be reviewing Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire with even a hint of seriousness? Probably not. Read the title and convince me this movie is in any way made by even mildly serious filmmakers. Would barely serious filmmakers put a random x in the title of their movie? No,…
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Dirty Old Men: Part 4
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Read more: Dirty Old Men: Part 4Tony Leung Ka-fai and Jane March in The Lover (1992) I still remember the hullabaloo about March’s debut in which it was rumored (like Christie and Sutherland two decades earlier in Don’t Look Now) that she was actually doing it. Amazing, really, that the public so often gets sucked into such nonsense. March plays a…
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The Lost Weekend
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Read more: The Lost WeekendThe Wet House provides a judgment-free atmosphere for drunks, but there was no such thing in the world of this ground-breaking movie that was made in 1945.
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Junebug (2005)
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Read more: Junebug (2005)Matt’s favorite film… “She tries to scream, but the horse testicles shoved in her mouth reduce her cries to muffled tears.”
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Dirty Love (2005)
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Read more: Dirty Love (2005)You are naked, covered in boils, and the only sensation you feel is that of a slow-moving concertina-wire working its way across your scrotum. The first cut, while quick, is brutally deep, and the night air is punctured just slightly by the distant sound of your testicles falling helplessly to the ground.
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Dirty Old Men: Part 3
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Read more: Dirty Old Men: Part 3William Holden and Kay Lenz in Breezy (1973) Holden is a fave, having starred in brilliant stuff like Sunset Boulevard, The Wild Bunch and Network. Lenz, however, not so much. Here she plays an impulsive, free-spirited, braless hippy chick with a floppy hat, bell bottoms and an acoustic guitar that has her name emblazoned on…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 51
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 51Pryor’s antics were priceless. They were mostly silent lamentations, gently weeping and babbling while Grossberger pinned him to the bunk with his girth.
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Dirty Old Men: Part 2
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Read more: Dirty Old Men: Part 2There’s long been a belief that Europeans are more liberated than their stuffy, uptight British and American counterparts.
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Dirty Old Men: Part One
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Read more: Dirty Old Men: Part OneI caught the plain daft Twinky, a flatfooted rom-com in which the craggy Charles Bronson is so confused by Susan George’s schoolgirl gyrations that he doesn’t kill anyone.