Monthly Archives: January 2020

Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) – reviewed by George

Posted on January 21, 2020 by cobblerjon

Behind the opening credits (which slide over to take only the left half of the screen), Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek) wakes up and prepares for the Live Aid concert from Wembley Stadium in 1985. And “Somebody to Love” begins to … Continue reading →

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My Sister Eileen (1942) – reviewed by George

Posted on January 19, 2020 by cobblerjon

Working at the Columbus Ohio Courier, Ruth Sherwood (Rosalind Russell) is writing a review of a stage production of Ibsen’s “Doll House” starring her sister Eileen Sherwood (Janet Blair). She has written that the audience was spellbound and Eileen was … Continue reading →

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Hitting a New High (1937) – reviewed by George

Posted on January 18, 2020 by cobblerjon

A musical comedy starring a great opera singer and a raft of comedians, with two leading men and a journey from Paris to Africa and on to New York. We start with Lucius B. Blynn (Edward Everett Horton) alone in … Continue reading →

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Jonny Lee Miller is Sherlock Holmes in “Elementary”: Season 5, Episodes 4, 5, and 6, (2016) – reviewed by George

Posted on January 17, 2020 by cobblerjon

Episode 4: Henny Penny The Sky Is Falling The episode begins with a married couple returning to their apartment after it has been used as a vacay by a firm whose rep is trying to calm them down. The renters … Continue reading →

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Commentary: Crime Dramas Today & Yesterday By Anita

Posted on January 16, 2020 by nita166

MeTV has done it again and changed their line-up, staying true to form bringing back a blast from the past. They have added some really fun stuff: not only cartoons but some crime dramas that are the birth of today’s … Continue reading →

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Peppermint (2018) – reviewed by George

Posted on January 16, 2020 by cobblerjon

Like litle guy against the system movies? Especially when the system is rigged? Like suspense in your flicks? Like Jennifer Garner? So do I! Riley North (Jennifer), her husband Chris (Jeff Hephner), and her little girl Carly (Cailey Fleming) are … Continue reading →

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All Fall Down (1962) – reviewed by George

Posted on January 14, 2020 by cobblerjon

Great acting by a great cast in a very depressing movie. Clint Willart (Brandon deWilde) arrives in the Florida Keys by bus to find his brother, Berry-Berry Willart (Warren Beatty). He walks to the really nice-looking hotel where Berry-Berry is … Continue reading →

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Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) – reviewed by George

Posted on January 13, 2020 by cobblerjon

Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) are in Ixtenco, Mexico looking at the ruined village and Maria says, “There’s nothing we can do here. We don’t fight the weather.” And Nick reminds her, “The locals say … Continue reading →

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Too Many Husbands (1940) – reviewed by George

Posted on January 12, 2020 by cobblerjon

Mr. William Cardew of Lowndes and Cardew, Publishers, drowned a year ago, and Mr. Henry Lowdes (Melvyn Douglas) is notifying staff that the firm is now Henry Lowndes. Publisher. But his secretary Miss Gertrude Houlihan (Dorothy Peterson) cannot maintain her … Continue reading →

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Presenting Lily Mars (1943) – reviewed by George

Posted on January 11, 2020 by cobblerjon

This story of an Indiana girl who dreams of Broadway, and then sees it as an actual possibility when a producer comes to her home town to visit his mother, is leavened with a lot of comedy. It stars Judy … Continue reading →

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