Special thanks to my pal and regular commenter Kevin a.k.a Jack Deth for this in-depth review! First, I'd like to thank Ruth for the opportunity to offer a guest review on her wonderfully enjoyable, informative site. It's not often that one is given the chance to rave about, offer insights or generally trash a film …
Category: Classic Flix
Reviews of Classic/Noir Films – featuring FlixChatter’s first ever contributor, Vince Caro.
Weekend Viewing Roundup.. Musings on Duel in the Sun
Happy Monday, folks, hope the weekend's been treatin' you right. It's a nice mellow one for me, mellow enough to give me some time to see the animated birdie movie Rio which was quite fun, Immortals (review coming later this week) and to go huntin' for some Gregory Peck DVDs 😀 Thanks to a good …
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Flix Character Spotlight: Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre was the epitome of the the Golden Era Hollywood character actor, providing solid support in a variety of movies and TV for more than 30 years. Born László Löwenstein in Austria-Hungary (now the Slovak Republic) in 1904, he ran away from home at age 17 and began to act in theatre. Changing his …
Weekend Roundup & Musings on Hitchcock’s SPELLBOUND
Happy Monday everybody! Hope everyone had a nice weekend and get to watch a lot of movies, unlike yours truly here who only get to see ONE film the entire weekend. But the film is one I had been wanting to see for a long time, well ever since I saw Roman Holiday and fell …
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GUEST POST – Classic Flix Review: Tarzan, The Ape Man (1932)
I was channel surfing last weekend and came upon this scene in the middle of a Tarzan movie on TCM that made me stop in my tracks: ... Tarzan movies were usual fare on a Saturday morning when I was a kid, but the scene where Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) suddenly becomes enamored with her jungle-man captor shed a whole …
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Weekend Viewing Roundup: The Adjustment Bureau and North by Northwest
This weekend cinema-viewing choices came down to Rango and Adjustment Bureau, which trailer was quite intriguing. In the end my hubby and I went with the latter, even though Rango won the weekend box office just as I predicted in Scarlet Sp1der's poll last Tuesday. It seems that the viewing theme this weekend is men …
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Everyone’s a Critic: Reviews of Coriolanus (2011) and Laura (1944)
Welcome to another edition of Everyone's a Critic! Today we've got two special reviews from two different genres, one is a Shakespearean modern adaptation, straight from its BERLINALE premiere (thank you Vanessa, you lucky gal!) and the other an Otto Preminger’s acclaimed classic noir (Preminger was nominated for Best Director Oscar for this film). In …
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