Storyline: Two musicians (Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis) become witnesses to a mob shooting and hide out in an all-women’s traveling band. Why this movie is a classic: This is one of writer/director Billy Wilder’s greatest works. It has all of the classic Wilder elements: switcheroos, disguises, innuendo, and allusion to taboo subject matter. Throughout...
By guest poster LM Preston from lmpreston.blogspot.com and lmpreston.com This movie is a cult classic for me. I broke my neck to go see this movie when I was a kid, and I just had to see the remake of it. I have to tell you – I was not disappointed. This movie was...
College is finally over for this semester, and I finally have some time to watch movies again! Hooray! To reinvigorate my DVD review section, here’s the review of Fantastic Mr. Fox. If you missed my original review of the movie, click here, but the short rundown of the Roald Dahl-based film is that it...
For all of its social advances, the sixties was still a rigid time for women and gender roles/identity. Ironically, that is when the movie Sex and the Single Girl came out. Sex, originally a book by Helen Gurley Brown before it became a film, challenges the then-social norm by openly talking about sex and...
By guest poster LM Preston from lmpreston.blogspot.com and lmpreston.com Let’s just say my kids dragged me to this one. All but three of the four actually read the book. The movie was most enjoyed by my 13yr old, who gave it the highest ranking. Poor Greg never, ever seems to get a break. The movie is...
Written by Mark Trammell, movie critic for UAB’s school newspaper, Kaleidoscope When I was a kid, a local theatre used to have these children film festivals and I lived right down the street, so I would go all the time during the summer. One fateful week, they had a Ray Harryhausen film festival, and...
The Big Sleep is known as one of the greatest Film Noir films ever (whether or not you agree that it is actually supposed to be in the Noir category). But, oddly enough, one of the reasons why it’s so great is because the plot is so crazy. To summarize the movie, The Big...
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