Category: film reviews
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Last week, we examined the 1933 Jean Harlow comedy, Bombshell for this website. The little film features Lee Tracy starring opposite the popular actress. Evidently, the dam behind Lee Tracy’s work is finally starting to break. While somehow missing his work for almost ten years as a film historian, I’m finally catching up to the…
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Within the last month, streaming website FilmStruck dropped a little mystery called The Man on the Eiffel Tower into their library of content. The film is a work of detective fiction based on the Inspector Maigret series. An interesting combination of visual aesthetic, shooting style and acting performances combine in this feature to create a…
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While Jean Harlow passed away more than eighty years ago, there are a few of her movies which have seemingly transcended the decades. One of these is Bombshell. Watching the 1933 film, it seems deeply tied in with Harlow’s star persona. After all, the actress was known as “The Blonde Bombshell”. In our continuing examination…
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There’s nothing like a Pre-Code film to put dated questions of sex and gender into perspective. To continue our examination of Jean Harlow‘s FilmStruck series, we take a look at the 1934 romantic dramedy, The Girl From Missouri. Interestingly, the film takes on a brand new identity in this post #MeToo era, and with it…
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Jean Harlow’s career straddles the thin line in Hollywood seemingly separating legendary and infamous. While her name is not as well known as it once was, the Blonde Bombshell of the 1930s is still the stuff legends are made of. In just a few short years, Harlow saw the highest of highs and the lowest…
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Perhaps I’m a 90’s kid with a penchant toward nostalgia; however, the teen films of the era are some of my favorites. One of the greatest to come out of the era is 1998’s 10 Things I Hate About You.
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The horror movie genre is one which has underwent tremendous change in the last twenty years or so. Directors like James Wan and Eli Roth have ushered in a lot of flexibility in the genre. Everything from torture porn to haunted house films can easily find an audience in today’s market. The Canal is a…
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Many probably don’t realize this, but the recent remake of The Magnificent Seven holds a special distinction of being a remake of a remake of a remake. All of these versions date back to the daddy of them all, Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic Seven Samurai. This film was closely followed up by the 1960 John Sturges film…
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Alright, did any of my other Millennial readers feel really old when it was discovered that Hugh Grant would be playing husband to Meryl Streep. Sitting through the close to thirty minutes of trailers leading into my Sunday morning screening of Florence Foster Jenkins, it hit home when one of the trailers, Bridget Jones’ Baby…
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Every so often, a film comes around that plain and simply, knocks you for a loop. Released in the dog days of summer (July 29th, to be specific), Indignation is a film which is at home in the much more Academy Award friendly territory of November and December. The little period piece is a stunning…
