Reviews of Classic/Noir Films – featuring FlixChatter’s first ever contributor, Vince Caro.
Greetings all and sundry! A few weeks ago, Ruth suggested I take a look at the 'Classics' and come up with an appropriate critique of a film from yesteryear. My mind virtually tumbled with titles as one continuously rose from the cinematic landscape to give pause and grab attention. As it had more than fifty years ago. …
Continue reading Classic Review: The Thing from Another World (1951)
It's Oscar Week, so today we're taking a look at some of the past Best Picture films from each decade from the 20s to the 90s. With some help from my friends, below are a list of reviews they've selected from each decade. sss • Ruth - Gentleman's Agreement (1947) • Iba @ I Luv …
Continue reading The Oscar Best Picture Project and Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) Review
Greetings, all and sundry! Once again, I would like to take advantage of Ruth's largesse and wax poetic about a film that cemented my belief that Robert Duvall is a solid talent to be reckoned with. In what many consider to be a 'Criminal Revenge B-Movie', but is so much more! Hence, I proffer. Made …
Greetings all and sundry! I am pleased to have the opportunity to approach and dissect in my own unique fashion one of those films that arrives with not a lot of noise and hoopla. Takes the movie going audience by storm and creates a solid touchstone for actors and actresses no one has ever heard of before and plants …
Greetings and welcome to all and sundry. It's my great pleasure to offer a Guest Review of a film I grew up with and have seen many, many times on television. With and without commercials. Though only a few times on the big screen. One of the great World War II films. Winner of two …
Continue reading Classic Flix Review: Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
As last weekend we got to see quite a lot of films (yes, I'm a bit behind on my reviews folks), this year we skipped the cinema and opted to catch up on films I've missed last year. One I've been wanting to see is Warrior, and when I read this enthusiastic review on Thursday, …
Welcome all and sundry to another guest review of a film I caught quite by accident. Courtesy of Turner Classic Movies late into a dark and stormy summer night. The film Brute Force is exceptionally intriguing in more ways than one. With a screenplay by Richard Brooks, who had assisted on Burt Lancaster's earlier, The Killers, excellent direction by Jules Dassin and B&W camera …
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