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The Large Rope (1953)
low budget British film
Donald Houston stars in "The Long Rope" from 1953, also starring Susan Shaw, Robert Brown, Peter Byrne, Richard Warner, and Vanda Godsell.
After spending time in prison, Tom Penney (Houston) returns to his home town. His ex-girlfriend is marrying someone else; his father doesn't want him in the house; and as soon as the local floozy is murdered, he gets the blame.
Donald Houston reminded me of a homely version of Ingo Rademacher, an actor on General Hospital, and a young Lloyd Bridges. He certainly evoked sympathy in the role.
Interesting look at guilty until proven innocent in a small English town.
Private Worlds (1935)
mental hospital drama
"Private Worlds" is a good 1935 film concerning mental health issues. The film stars Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Charles Boyer, Helen Vinson, and Joan Bennett. I confess I didn't recognize Joan Bennett.
The story concerns hard-working, dedicated psychiatrists McCrea and Colbert who have to deal with a new head of the hospital, a man who believes women have no place in psychiatry. The title comes from a quote by McCrea, that there is no difference between sanity and insanity - everyone lives in their own private world.
There is a subplot - the philandering McCrea, fooling around with Boyer's sister (Vinson), and a growing attraction between Colbert and Boyer.
I don't think I have ever seen Boyer so young, and he reminded me of Alain Delon.
Good movie, recommending a humane approach to the mentally ill.
Always Be My Maybe (2019)
cute romcom
Cute rom com about two people, Sasha and Marcus (Ali Wong and Randall Park) who knew each other in childhood and early teen years and reconnect 15 years later.
Sasha is now a celebrity chef, and Marcus is still living at home and working for his father. They aren't that excited about getting together.
There are some sweet moments in this film, but the funniest scene takes place in a restaurant with Sasha's hot date, Keanu Reeves. He is HILARIOUS. The whole restaurant set-up is a riot. Park says something like "I just ate a $640 meal and I'm starving." The movie is worth seeing just for that part.
Very pleasant.
Love from a Stranger (1947)
Sylvia Sidney is swept away by a mysterious stranger.
Sylvia Sidney falls in love with a mysterious charmer (John Hodiak) in "Love from a Stranger," from 1947.
This is a remake that originally starred Basil Rathbone and Ann Harding, and was set in modern times. For some reason, this film is set in Victorian England. A young woman has just won a lottery and is planning what to do with her winnings. When a man, Manuel Cortez (Hodiak) comes to look at her flat as a possible rental, she finds herself attracted to him.
Unfortunately, she's engaged to someone else (John Howard). She breaks up with him and winds up marrying Cortez. He spirits her away to an isolated cottage.
There were a few signs along the way that all was not as it seems, but the happy bride doesn't seem to notice.
Okay film with not much chemistry between the two leads. The story is predictable. There are a couple of exciting moments. The film is incredibly atmospheric, particularly the cottage scenes.
Based on a story by Agatha Christie, this lacked the usual Christie pizazz.
The Web (1947)
pretty good noir
A strong cast and a neat story make up "The Web" from 1947, starring Edmond O'Brien, Ella Raines, Vincent Price, and William Bendix.
O'Brien is an attorney, Regan, who is hired for an exorbitant amount of money to be the bodyguard for a tycoon, Andrew Colby (Price). He is frightened of a former employee who has just been released from prison.
Regan meets Colby's beautiful secretary-girlfriend Noel (Raines) - she seems to be living in Colby's house, which makes me wonder where the censors were. Regan falls for her. After the released convict seemingly breaks into Colby's home, Regan kills him. Then he starts to think he's been set up.
Enjoyable noir with Raines a knockout - she's one of my favorite actresses of that era - and Price before his horror days and very effective.
Neat plot.
Love on Toast (1937)
silly, but a chance to see the great Stella Adler
"Love on Toast" is a 1937 trite comedy starring Stella Adler (here credited as Ardler) as a publicity woman out to sell soup with a "Mr. Manhattan" campaign. "Mr. Manhattan" is supposed to marry Miss Brooklyn. Love gets in the way.
Adler comes off as a Glenda Farrell-Jean Arthur type. She's fast-talking, and her character is quick thinking and energetic. Adler was quite beautiful - I understand in order to break into films, she had a nose job. Whatever, she looks great.
As Mr. Manhattan, a baby-faced John Payne has one of his first film roles; he looks like Robert Taylor here, wearing the same makeup.
Thinking about the incredible contribution Adler made, teaching people like Brando, Harvey Keitel, Robert DeNiro, and Warren Beatty to name a few - it's interesting that, though she tried, she didn't break into the big time in films. Obviously, she was meant for bigger things.
Law & Order: UK (2009)
very good
Dick Wolf's creation of Law and Order has long tentacles. The UK version copies the format of the original and holds up beautifully.
The stories are involving, and the acting is superb. Jamie Bamber is adorable with a capital A; and Bradley Walsh is brilliant as a recovering alcoholic cop who has been through a lot of pain. On the order side, the originals were Ben Daniels, Freema Agyeman, Harriet Walter, and Bill Paterson are great. Later, Peter Davidson and Dominic Rowan, also very good, take over.
Highly recommended.
Your Honor (2020)
just not that good
After a promising and intriguing beginning, "Your Honor" enters the realm of absurdity and stays there.
I watched this because of Bryan Cranston, who is excellent.
The story takes place in New Orleans. A young man has been gifted a motorcycle by his parents, takes it for a joyride, and winds up dead after a car driven by a judge's son Adam (Hunter Doohan) hits him.
Adam is severely asthmatic, can't find his inhaler, and can't talk well enough to call an ambulance. He leaves, confesses to his judge father, Michael Desiato (Cranston) who takes him to the police. He leaves Adam in the car and walks into the police station to pave the way. He's out of there in like thirty seconds, finding out that the boy killed was the son of the biggest mobster in town.
Very intriguing premise, beautifully acted by Cranston, that heads off the rails almost immediately, as Judge Desiato desperately tries to keep his son from being identified. The wrong person is arrested, and we get to see the corruption of the New Orleans police in action.
Someone on this board seemed to find this part unrealistic. I know a civil rights attorney who had to move to another state due to the New Orleans police.
The New Orleans Police Department had a reputation for corruption long before Hurricane Katrina. For decades, the department was infected by a culture of discrimination, abuse, and lawlessness. I believe with all the attention on them, they've cleaned up their act. But that part of the movie was not unrealistic.
What was first an edge of your seat tension turns into ridiculousness as this grown man, a judge no less, gets in deeper and deeper, betraying everything he believes to protect his idiot kid. The kid's a mess - he is having an affair with his teacher, and then starts seeing the daughter of the mobster, whose brother he killed. No good can come of this.
I can't imagine anyone being able to live with themselves - the accident was one thing, but the cover-up, which leads to several murders - is something else. Since the judge had a few connections, he should have gotten fake passports for himself and Adam and left the country. In the beginning, no one knew the judge's son was involved. I'd say go to the police and get protection, but that was never going to happen.
Some familiar faces - Lorraine Toussaint, Maura Tierney, and Margo Martindale make up a good cast. However, the story is too convoluted to be believable.
I hope Cranston's next project is better.
Fisherman's Friends (2019)
lovely film
Based on a true story, Fisherman's Friends tells the tale of a music exec from London (Daniel Mays) who winds up in Cornwall. He winds up making stars of a group of singing fishermen. Along the way, the music executive realizes what's important in life.
Yes, a bit predictable, but it's a fun, warm film with plenty of atmosphere and excellent performances from Mays, David Hayman, Maggie Steed, James Purefoy Noel Clarke Tuppence Middleton, and the others.
Not a special effects blockbuster with action stars, but good nonetheless.
The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (2020)
not as good as the first one, but still fun
It's a Christmas movie, not Citizen Kane.
Granted, the first Christmas Chronicles was superior, but this one, with Kurt as Santa again and Goldie Hawn as Mrs. Santa, has plenty to recommend it - good performances and fun effects.
If it's a little hokey, well, that's Christmas for you.
The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
great Christmas movie
Kurt Russell makes a delightful Santa in The Christmas Chronicles. Two kids set up a video so they can prove Santa is real. They wind up in his sleigh trying to save Christmas. Along the way they have adventures.
Good family film, wonderful performances and special effects.
A good film for the whole family.
The Prom (2020)
upbeat, fun, badly needed nowadays
The Prom is a wonderful, bright musical, great to look at, with a marvelous cast, good music, and an old but so often ignored message - the world is for everyone. Everyone deserves to be who they are.
However, everybody being who they are does not, in my opinion, extend to acting. Acting is playing someone different from yourself - not in all ways all the time, but certainly in some ways. This is why I can't understand the insistence on casting a gay actor as a gay character, referring to the bad reviews James Corden received. Ridiculous. Grow up. He did a great job. I don't know about anybody else's gay friends, but my gay male friends loved him.
If you're sick of hate, and want to feel some optimism about anything (and of this writing, I don't know about anybody else, but I need it) this is the film for you. Take it for what it is. It's not Citizen Kane. It's a typical Ryan Murphy, somewhat campy production. I'm not a particular fan of Ryan Murphy, but I enjoyed this immensely.
Mank (2020)
very hard to get through
Though beautifully photographed and evocative of the 1930s and 1940s, I had a tough time making it through "Mank," the story of Herman J. Mankiewicz during his time writing the screenplay for Citizen Kane. That is a whole other movie and a huge controversy, so I won't go into it.
Boring, self-conscious, inaccurate, there are a few acting kudos - Gary Oldman as Mankiewicz is remarkable. I love Lily Collins, and she doesn't disappoint here as Mank's secretary. Tom Burke makes a marvelous Welles.
There is other good acting to be had in Mank, but there is also very self-conscious, let's pretend we're in the 1930s and '40s dialogue and acting. It all seemed very put on. That was mostly from minor characters.
I loved the character of Marion Davies - her character is sympathetic - but I could have done without Amanda Seyfried's bad acting. Charles Dance was a fabulous Hearst.
All in all, a big bore. However, if it inspires you to read more about Mankiewicz, the fight over the Citizen Kane screenplay, and old Hollywood, I recommend it. The governor's race between Merriman and Upton Sinclair is interesting, too - though it was just thrown into this story, possibly becaused the political discussions seemed timely.
Stars in My Crown (1950)
People perhaps were expecting a gun-slinging Joel McCrea
And they didn't get one.
"Stars in My Crown" was Joel McCrea's favorite film. He's cast against type here, playing the parson, Josiah Gray, who settles with his wife (Ellen Drew) and her nephew John (Dean Stockwell) in a small town.
At first he's accepted by the community, who help him build his church. However, not everyone is crazy about him, including Daniel Harris Jr. (James Mitchell) who has taken over his late father's practice.
There are some dark forces at work, including an attempt to take land owned by a black farmer (Juano Hernandez). The violence against him escalates, but he stands firm.
What was interesting to me about this film was that citizens of the town become infected with typhoid. The first one hit is John. When Josiah attempts to continue to work in the community with his flock, the doctor accuses him of spreading the disease as more and more people become ill. The family become pariahs.
This isn't the exact scenario with COVID, though some of the sentiments are the same as people play the blame game and deal with suffering and death in their families.
"Stars in My Crown" is family entertainment, a story of the power of prayer and the need for courage in the face of difficulties. It's a lovely film, and while some may think Joel McCrea was miscast, I don't. Tough, charismatic, and plain speaking, he makes Josiah the kind of pastor any community would be proud to have.
The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Super-fantastic
I watched The Queen's Gambit because it was so highly reviewed, and I was not disappointed.
One would think if you didn't know chess, this would be a detriment to your enjoyment, but it isn't at all. It's about chess, yes, but it's about a gifted woman's evolution as a competitor, addiction, and as a human being.
All of the characters are wonderful and fully fleshed-out. Anya Taylor-Joy is fantastic as the genius chess player. The series is very well cast.
Hope to see more of this kind of thing on Netflix. Excellent, keeps you interested, and if you're not careful, a binge watch (so start watching early).
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home (2020)
A second film from the Psych gang
Psych, be it the series or a TV movie, is good for what ails you.
It was so great to see the boys together again, and wonderful that Timothy Omundson was able to appear. He seems to be recovering from his stroke - let's hope he continues to recover even more.
James Roday Rodriguez and Dule Hill are a scream as always, and they manage to bring back crazy Woody the coroner, as well as Juliet and the Chief.
My only disappointment was that I wasn't sure where the heck they were. I know they were in Santa Barbara and moved to San Francisco, but then at one point it seemed like they were in Santa Barbara again. Or am I nuts.
Bring on more Psych. By the way, Dule Hill's real wife played his girlfriend, and at the time of her filming, she was 8-1/2 months pregnant. The director was afraid she was going to go into labor at some point during her three day filming.
Emily in Paris (2020)
Paris in the eyes of a young American woman
I am a fan of Lily Collins, so I tuned in to watch Emily in Paris.
The series seems to be geared toward a younger crowd, and if you take it on that basis, you may enjoy it.
The production values good. This is light fare as Lily takes a job in Paris and tries to maneuver in a new culture. What she encounters is a pretty cliched version of Paris: cold people, men with mistresses that their wives know about, lots of guys chasing after a beautiful woman.
I have a feeling that we're going to be seeing a lot more of this type of show - something you don't have to cry during or think about too much, and something pretty too look at. At the moment, that's what people want in entertainment; at the moment, the world is pretty dreary. Anyway, take it for what it is.
Enola Holmes (2020)
family entertainment
I agree with one of the people who posted here. People very often view a film not for what it is, but what they either think it should be or want it to be. As the poster pointed out, this isn't a Quentin Tarantino film. It's well-done family entertainment about the adventures of a young woman, Enola Holmes, as she sets out to find her missing mother.
She's Sherlock's sister, and Sherlock and Mycroft appear in the form of Henry Cavill and Sam Clafin. I did not feel they registered much. The real star is Millie Bobby Brown as Enola. Her mother is played by Helena Bonham-Carter, Frances de la Tour, Louis Partridge, and Fiona Shaw make up a very good cast.
The film has wonderful production values, and I wonder if there are plans for future adventures of Enola. The film is really for teenaged women, and it's a lot of fun, with its emphasis on creative imagination and girl power.
People may tune in because of the Sherlock connection, but it's not really about him. It's about his sister. Amazing how that family keeps growing.
Mr. Reeder in Room 13 (1938)
not very good
Mystery of Room 13 or Mr. Reeder in Room 13 is a 1938 British film starring Gibb McLaughlin, Peter Murray-Hill and Sally Gray. A young man (Murray-Hill) wants to work for "Special Services" and is given an assignment of going undercover in prison to discover who is printing counterfeit bank notes.
After that it gets weird. His girlfriend marries someone else, a crony of her father's. The main character, once he's released from prison, finds unexpected connections to the counterfeit ring and comes up against Gray's husband.
The marriage plot was ridiculous. Fuzzy sound, slow, not much to recommend it except I have always liked Sally Gray.
Rocketman (2019)
wonderful musical biography of a great composer and performer
"Rocketman" tells the story of Elton John - it's not an actual biography, though. It's told in the fantasy setting of a music, using many of his fabulous songs.
The timing of events is often inaccurate, songs are used at times before they were written. the story has inaccuracies, but who cares - it's not meant to be accurate, it's meant to be fun. And it is.
Elton tells his story while in rehab, about his cold father, his relationship with his mom and nana, his beginnings playing piano and composing, meeting Bernie Taupin, stardom, lovers, and addictions. One thing not emphasized - Elton supposedly had a warm relationship with his mom's second husband, Fred, whom he called "Derf" - but you really don't get that impression in the film.
Taron Edgerton sings like a dream and makes a terrific Elton. What can I say about the music? I loved every note.
Elton John is a brilliant musician. a flamboyant performer, a humanitarian, and an interesting personality. Even if you don't get his entire story from "Rocketman," you certainly realize that.
Trauma Center (2019)
Home Alone, Hospital Style
This isn't a comedy, but the premise is the same as Home Alone, in that someone is completely isolated as danger lurks.
In this case, a young woman (Nicky Whelan) witnesses a murder and as she tries to get away, is shot in the leg. She winds up in the hospital, where, under the supervision of a police officer (Bruce Willis) she is isolated in an empty unit for her own safety. Unfortunately, the two guys after her are police officers and don't have much problem getting into the unit and killing her guard. Nicky claims she didn't see anything, but they don't care - they want the bullet that's in her leg.
Very tense with a terrific performance by Nicky Whelan.
To tell you the truth, the movie seemed a little cheap - the sound had an echo. Bruce Willis wasn't the usual Bruce Willis - he was sluggish and spoke slowly. The police officers were appropriately menacing.
Standard entertainment with some clever touches and gory scenes.
Murder by the Clock (1931)
I'm a woman....and you want me.
Murder by the Clock from 1931 is so old it creaks. There are precodes and precodes - I find that films done before, say, 1933, are not well paced, the performances are mannered, and everyone talks slowly and takes big pauses in between. And there's an echo.
That out of the way, the cast members proved later on that they were capable of so much more: Lilyan Tashman, William Boyd, Irving Pichel, and Regis Toomey.
The story concerns the will of an old woman (Blanche Friderici) as she decides who is getting her money. That is, if she ever dies - she's so terrified of being buried alive that she has a horn installed in her crypt.
She has two choices as far as to whom she will leave her wealth - her son, the village idiot, or her worthless nephew (Pichel). Pichel's wife (Tashman) is constantly nagging him about getting the old lady's money sooner rather than later.
A domino effect is set up where people start dying - and two miraculously seem to come back to life, though one only briefly.
It's obvious who the mechanic behind the murders is, especially to the lieutenant on the case (Boyd). Will he do the right thing? And can he get the proof?
This is an old dark house mystery with secret passageways, a graveyard, a crypt, and it's dark. Frankly, I found it a little plodding. I thought William Boyd came off the best - he seemed to have found a good rhythm for his dialogue, and his acting was strong. Tashman for me got better as she went along.
I'd say this was a fun film, but you have to be in the mood. The echoes, the slow dialogue, the long pauses, plus the fact that it's hard to see much with the lighting, don't make this a favorite.
The Poison Rose (2019)
slow, copies the old '40s noirs
John Travolta, Morgan Freeman, Brendan Frasier, Ella Bleu Travolta, Famke Janssen, and Robert Patrick star in "The Poison Rose" from 2019.
It's not awful, but John Travolta, who has had higher ups and lower downs than nearly any actor in history, is again in a downward slope. Not that I can blame him - at the time the film was made, he had a sick wife who later died, and they had also lost a son.
In 1978, in Los Angeles, your typical gumshoe, Carson Phillips - drinker, smoker, gambler - agrees to return to his home town of Galveston to find out what is going on with an institutionalized woman, an heiress no one has heard from.
The town has nothing but bad memories for him - he walked out on the love of his life Jayne (Janssen). He also is a former football player who threw a game and had to leave town. However, it's a good time to split from LA - some people, probably loan sharks, are after him.
Carson runs into some strange things - and an even stranger doctor (Brendan Fraser with a new look) as he tries to see the heiress, Barbara. He also reconnects with the local mobster who runs Galveston (Freeman).
Jayne has a married daughter Becky (Ella Travolta) - her husband is a well-known football player who dies during a game. Becky comes under suspicion and Jayne begs for his help. Carson starts putting things together, and it looks to be an ugly outcome.
Travolta and Freeman are marvelous together, hard to believe they've never worked on the same film before. Travolta's gift, besides his charisma, is his knack for showing more than one level of a character, even a stereotypical one like Carson Philips or Danny Zucco. It's a shame he sometimes chooses such poor projects.
All of the acting is good. Ella Bleu gets high marks for her performance, and her heartfelt scenes with her real-life dad. Singer-actress Kat Graham who plays a club singer, Rose (but she's not the poison rose - in fact, I don't think there was one), is terrific. And Brendan Fraser is one smarmy, scary dude. Famke Janssen has had something done to her face, which was very distracting, but she's quite good.
The plot has holes in it and also unresolved situations. It's also slow. However, one poster commented that one thing Carson was working on was not resolved, concerning Becky - incorrect. It was resolved. Also, he uncovers some rotten doings at the institution. The point is, he isn't leaving, so it's assumed he can make more inroads.
I loved Travolta and Janssen dancing. Nice to see, Travolta hasn't forgotten his roots.
Whistle Stop (1946)
awful
Ridiculous plot and grainy film are the stars of "Whistle Stop," a low-budget quasi-noir starring Ava Gardner, George Raft, Tom Conway, and Victor McLaglen.
I won't go much into the plot, except that drop dead gorgeous Ava for some reason returns to her home town of Polukaville from Chicago. She's decked out in mink and has a gold cigarette case. One gets the impression her rich boyfriend dumped her, but we aren't given any reason why she's back. Tell me that a woman that breathtaking couldn't have her pick of men in Chicago.
She has a couple of men she left behind - one is George Raft, a bum, and Tom Conway, the town mobster. Of course, her presence sets up terrible jealousy between the men. Victor McLaglen, as everyone has noted, has the best, and in fact the only good role as a bartender.
I have to take issue with one thing a reviewer said - that Ava was too beautiful to be in a melodrama about small town hicks. My attitude is, they have to come from somewhere, and Ava was from Grabtown, North Carolina. I do agree that a woman that beautiful would return to live in her home town.
It was very hard to focus on this film. MGM would start their starlets off in small roles and then gradually move them up to supporting and then leads. This was a test for Ava, along with two other films she was doing. She passed, as if there was any doubt.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Great cast stars in a true-life kangaroo court
Aaron Sorkin wrote and directed this brilliant film about the trial of the Chicago Seven, which took place In Chicago in 1969-1970.
Actually the seven represented different groups, but no matter, they were all painted with the same brush. At the Democratic Party Convention in 1968, there were protests by a group of moderates, led by Tom Hayden and militant "Yippies" led by Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen) and Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong. Black Panther Bobby Seale (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), accused of something else, had his trial finally severed from that of the Seven. These men were arrested and arraigned on charges of Conspiracy by the Nixon administration.
The trial itself was a joke, led by Judge Hoffman (Frank Langella) who had obviously decided beforehand that these men were all guilty of conspiracy and inciting violence.
The prosecution lawyer was the reluctant Richard Schultz (Joseph Gordon Levitt), and on the defendant's side, the fiery William Kuntsler (Mark Rylance).
The Yippies as they were called made constant disturbances during the trial, which upset the moderates. Seale was in court without a lawyer and not allowed to defend himself, finally appearing in court bound and gagged.
The Chicago 7 were Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen), Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong), David Dellinger (John Carroll Lynch) , Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne), Rennie Davis (Alex Sharp), John Froines (Danny Flaherty), and Lee Weiner (Noah Robbins).
The acting was remarkable, with Cohen and Strong bringing some humor to the situation, Langella perfect as the hateful and prejudiced judge.
Mark Rylance who in my opinion can do no wrong gives an excellent performance as Kuntsler, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt did a great job as a torn federal prosecutor Richard Schultz. As Bobby Seale, Yahya Abdul Mateen II is fantastic
This is a horrible segment of American history, during times very similar to those of today. The Vietnam War, killing thousands of soldiers and civilians, had made activists out of young people, all of whom approached protesting in different ways - some with violence, others attempting non-violence, and both being thwarted by both Mayor Daley and the police, free with their billy clubs and tear gas.
When former attorney general Ramsey Clark testifies, away from the jury, that under Johnson, there were no indictments because the police started the violence, the judge refuses to let the jury hear his testimony.
In the end, the men (including the attorneys) had racked up hundreds of contempt citations and the defendants were found guilty not of conspiracy, but of inciting a riot. As Ramsey Clark left the courtroom, he advised Kuntsler to "Get started on your appeal" - and as expected, all convictions were reversed, and the judge's career was over.
As for the seven, Tom Hayden became a seven-term Senator; Hoffman committed suicide some years later, Bobby Seale (actually the 8th defendant) is still going strong, as is Rennie Davis; Dellinger, a writer, was actually arrested again in 1996 for doing a sit-in with Abby Hoffman's son; Hoffman himself committed suicide in 1989; Froines taught at university; Rubin invested in Apple but was killed in a car accident in 1994; Wiener went on to work for B'nai B'rith and to this day wants to bring down capitalism.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is an excellent watch, and also interesting to read about.
The ending of the film, with Tom Hayden's statement and the reaction of the federal prosecutor Schultz - very powerful and to be missed.