Movie reviews

The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
Who said nostalgia ain’t what it used to be? Obviously, someone who hasn’t spent three hours with Lucille Ball and Paul Whiteman in two

The Grey Fox (1982)
“[Bill] Miner and his men, posing as prospectors, fled south on foot, with $17 and a bottle of kidney pills, pursued by a large posse,

Black Narcissus (1947)
Servant: “How do I know what nuns eat!?” The Old General: “Do you see that crate? Sausages. They will eat sausages. Europeans eat sausages wherever

Ed Wood (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E__AoONUh6g “This is the one. This is the one I’ll be remembered for.”— Ed Wood commenting on his film Plan 9 From Outer Space “Inspector

A Story of Women (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKTOzzkT27c&has_verified=1 Creeps or heroes. This is my theory about why there are so few powerful roles for women in Hollywood films. Henry Ford offered the

Winter Light (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ6_0KlpK6I “I had a faint hope that it wasn’t all imagination, dreams, lies.” Tomas the priest in Winter Light Let’s get spiritual. Or rather,

Nashville (1975)
“My life would make a damn good country song.”-D. Fritts “He who controls rhythm/controls”-Charlcs Olson (both quoted in Nick Tosche’s Country) A Woodstock for the

Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
Things are usually fascinating on the border lands. Borders between countries breed strange fusions of languages, twilight and dawn are freighted with metaphor and inklings

Reservoir Dogs (1992)
“Reservoir (medical): A population which is chronically infested with the causative agent of a disease and can infect other populations.” —from the Oxford English Dictionary.

The Black Stallion (1979)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciqg9Ti_psE Carroll Ballard’s first feature film, The Black Stallion (1979), is a lot like Jane Campion’s more recent The Piano, but without the sex.

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
“She decided not to take the offered pawn, to leave the tension on the board. She liked it like that. She liked the power of

Duck Soup (1933)
Do I really want to admit this in public? Perhaps I should give the matter more thought, or find a way to hedge my bets.