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Monthly Archives: May 2020
Herbie in “Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo” (1977) – reviewed by George
The first ever Trans-France Race from Paris to Monte Carlo is about to be run, and how could Jim Douglas (Dean Jones) not race Herbie in it? Jim and mechanic Wheely Applegate (Don Knotts) have brought Herbie to Paris and … Continue reading
Mad Monster Party? (1966) – reviewed by George
This animated feature from Rankin-Bass is part hand-drawn, but mostly what Rankin and Bass called Animagic – stop-motion animation. It’s very effective because they use actual figures being moved and photographed frame by frame, so a 3-D quality is already … Continue reading
Posted in M, Movies
Tagged Alan Swift, Arthur Rankin Jr., Boris Karloff, Ethel Ennis, Gale Garnett, Harvey Kurtzman, Jules Bass, Len Korobkin, Mad Monster Party?, Maury Laws, Phyllis Diller
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Jonny Lee Miller is Sherlock Holmes in “Elementary”, Season 7, Episodes 1, 2, and 3 (2019) – reviewed by George
Episode 1: The Further Adventures Sherlock and Joan (Lucy Liu) are living in London now, and working with DCI Athelney Jones (Tamsin Greig). They have also reconnected with Kitty Winter (Ophelia Lovibond), who now has a baby boy. At the … Continue reading
Posted in E, Sherlock Holmes, T
Tagged Aidan Quinn, Christine Moore, Elementary, Guy Ferland, Jason Tracey, John Sharian, Jon Michael Hill, Jonny Lee Miller, Jordan Gelber, Lucy Liu, Maritza Veer, Ophelia Lovibond, Ravi Kapoor, Robert Doherty, Saffron Burrows, Tamara Jaron, Tamsin Greig, Thomas Carter, Virginia Madsen
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Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak in “Kolchak: The Night Stalker”, Season 1, Episodes 9 and 10 (1974) – reviewed by George
Episode 9: The Spanish Moss Murders Michele Kelly, 25, a psychology grad and lab assistant, was rushing to get off her job early to catch the last plane from Chicago to suburban New Jersey. She left a comatose patient in … Continue reading
Movie 43 (2013) – reviewed by George
When I rented this title I had never heard of it and knew only that it was an anthology film with 14 separate, independent stories, and a cast to die for. I watched it and liked some segments and was … Continue reading
Posted in M, Movies
Tagged Anna Faris, Bobby Canavale, Chloe Grace Moretz, Chris Pratt, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dennis Quaid, Elizabeth Banks, Emma Stone, Esti Ginsburg, Gerard Butler, Greg Kinnear, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Jack McBrayer, Jason Sudeikis, Jimmy Bennett, John Hodgson, Johnny Knoxville, Josh Duhamel, Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, Kate Winslet, Kieran Culkin, Kristen Bell, Leslie Bibb, Liev Schreiber, Movie 43, Naomi Watts, Patrick Warburton, Richard Gere, Seann William Scott, Stephen Merchant, Terence Howard, Uma Thurman, Will Carlough
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Soapdish (1991) – reviewed by George
Egos blazing, the cast members of the soap opera “The Sun Also Sets” vie for more lines, a better story arc, more closeups, etc. Meanwhile the sweet, unaware star of the show Celeste Talbert (Sally Field), who has been a … Continue reading
My Sister Eileen (1955) in Cinemascope and Technicolor – reviewed by George
The history of this property is interesting. Columbia shot the original film in 1942 starring Rosalind Russell and Janet Blair (my review was published here on 1-9-20). Then in 1953 a Broadway musical version was presented starring Rosalind Russell and … Continue reading
Posted in M, Movies
Tagged Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Betty Garrett, Blake Edwards, Bob Fosse, Dick York, Edie Adams, Jack Lemmon, Jacquelyn McKeever, James Chodorov, Janet Blair, Janet Leigh, Joseph Fields, Jule Styne, Kurt Kasznar, Leo Robin, Leonard Bernstein, Lucy Marlow, My Sister Eileen, Richard Quine, Rosalind Russell, Tommy Rall
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Herbie in “Herbie Rides Again” (1974) – reviewed by George
This is Herbie’s second movie and it seems much more for kids than the original. That’s partly because there’s a big hole in the logic of the story. Behind the opening credits Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn) keeps pushing down those … Continue reading
Posted in H, Movies
Tagged Bill Walsh, Gordon Buford, Helen Hayes, Herbie Rides Again, John McIntire, Keenan Wynn, Ken Berry, Robert Stevenson, Stephanie Powers
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Tangled Ever After (2011) – reviewed by George
The wedding of Rapunzel and Flynn Rider: six and a half minutes of adventure, excitement, jaw-dropping, and laugh-out-loud hysterics; altogether the best cartoon I’ve ever seen. I could (and do) watch this anytime I start to feel blue. At the … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Short Subjects
Tagged Alan Dale, Byron Howard, Mandy Moore, Nathan Greno, Tangled Ever After, Zachary Levi
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Will Ferrell is Sherlock Holmes in “Holmes and Watson” (2018) – reviewed by George
This isn’t exactly a bad movie, but it’s pretty damned close. And it could have been good. I sat down to watch with expectations of laughing a lot, but the real effect of the movie was a desecration of Conan … Continue reading
