I know, the old guys all like Citizen Kane and Casablanca and Gone With the Wind, I like movies made after the fifties. Not that there is anything wrong with Citizen Kane, it’s a great movie, just not my favorite. In the old movies category, It’s a Wonderful Life is my favorite. I still cry when George is standing on the bridge after seeing a world where he was never born.The Matrix is not a tear-jerker. For the two or three of you that has not watched this modern masterpiece, here it is in a nutshell. The world we live…
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Notes on a Scandal-Judi Dench Cate Blanchett
Ripped from the headlines story of a pretty blond schoolteacher having sex with a fifteen year old student. Sort of. The real story is about the old woman who lusts for a new friend, but we are never really sure what kind of a friend it is she lusting for. Judi Dench is the slightly mad, or totally mad, teacher who is near retirement age and doesn’t want to die alone. Cate Blanchett is the object of her desire, as well as the desire of the fifteen year old stud muffin. Nothing good comes from all this lusting.It is a…
Staircase-being gay was never like this, was it?
TCM is a very cool network, which more often than not, plays movies you liked the first, oh forty or fifty times you saw them. But every once in a while they play something a little different. I think Staircase falls into that category. I like Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady is one of my all time favorites. I never liked Richard Burton. John Wayne was famous for playing himself in all of his movies and I always got the same feeling from Burton. The difference, of course, is that I liked John Wayne. Robert Osborne, the omnipresent host on…
About Schmidt-I know it’s old, but I never saw it
This is the story of everyman Schmidt who retires and finds that he has nothing to live for. Soon after his wife dies and the only person in the world that gave a damn about him is gone. His only daughter is marrying a loser and there is nothing he can do about it. His only hope of making any kind of differance in anyone’s life is when he watches a Save The Child ad on TV and decides to sponser a child. He has money, but it does him little good. He can travel, but just ends up reliving…
Premontion-a stitch in time saves none
Most movies that have time travel as a key element work from the foundation that time is plastic-think Marty McFly or Bill and Ted-that anything in any time line can be changed at will without there being any serious side effects. Although Prof Brown was often worried about there being an end of the universe event, that never seemed to happen. My favorite of the plastic universe movies is Groundhog Day, in which a heartless and self centered Bill Murray turns into a benevolent hero to virtually everyone in Punxsutawney.The other kind of time travel is the concrete determinism type…