Next week's BEWARE, MY LOVELY is basically a filmed play, not especially well directed. However, Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino both give fine performances, as you would expect. I wouldn't watch this for money. I have tried and it didn't last very long. I CAN'T STAND hostage or terrorizing stories. Som...

Next week's BEWARE, MY LOVELY is basically a filmed play, not especially well directed. However, Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino both give fine performances, as you would expect.

Lorna wrote: ↑December 10th, 2023, 6:07 pm For you, KINGRAT:

Why, thanks, Lorna. He does have a nice mustache. He sings, too.

On the same footing, you and I will never *truly* understand DISCO. Oh, dude, consider yourself fortunate and thank God, Fate, and your lucky stars for that. When Mr. Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS said "The horror! The horror!" he was having a vision of disco. Now imagine--or...

[/quote] Well, it looks as if I'll have to amend my response to you here a bit. Ya see, Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright got me a little teary-eyed while I watched the Lou Gehrig biopic 'The Pride of the Yankees' on TCM today. And sure, while I have watched this film a number of times in the past but n...

Kind of disappointed that I stayed up to watch I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE IN YOUR SHOES. Should have taped it and done a little fast forwarding. The film isn't well paced and the last third drags. Even a 70-minute film can seem too long. As Cigarjoe noted, not much in the way of noir visuals. It's OK, tw...

You gotta know your audience!

I can't help being surprised and pleased about the frank and matter-of-fact treatment of gay sex in a fairly mainstream setting.

Moving back toward my original thoughts: we just watched episode 6 of FELLOW TRAVELERS, where once again the sexual acts showed the status of the relationship between Hawk, now married with children, and Tim, now a seminary student. Hawk realizes that Tim would not be willing to engage in anal sex, ...

Speaking of "water," that word is pronounced many different ways in the US. In the "Suthun" parts of the South, it may sound like "wawter" or "wawtuh" or "wahtuh." In the Inland South it may be pronounced "wadder." In Baltimore (a.k.a. &quo...

Only the northern part of Georgia, north of Atlanta and closer to Chattanooga, is considered part of the Inland South. Well KR, seein' as how you've now brought up the name "Chattanooga" here, lemme ask you a little somethin'. Somethin' I've always wanted to know. Okay, now at the end of ...

I am so majorly impressed by all the people who understand the word "rhotic," which I only learned a couple of years ago. I grew up in what professors of linguistics call the Inland South, where we pronounce every "r." We are "Southern," not "Suthun." This is...

I am so majorly impressed by all the people who understand the word "rhotic," which I only learned a couple of years ago. I grew up in what professors of linguistics call the Inland South, where we pronounce every "r." We are "Southern," not "Suthun." This is ...

Khartoum (1966) Directed by Basil Dearden The film depicts a struggle which has bearing on the current religious strife in the Middle East and Africa. What is worth noting is that one of Gordon's goals was to extinguish the slave trade, which he did for a time, until the Arabs reinstated it. That's...

CinemaInternational, if they were going to show a film from John Barrymore's late period a better choice (well, comparatively speaking) would have been THE INVISIBLE WOMAN. Did anyone see THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT? In a nutshell, the Frank Tashlin sexy-cartoonish touch does not work well with Doris Day...

MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT is one of those films that is "coded Jewish." No one is identified as Jewish, but the father is an immigrant from Eastern Europe who works in the garment industry in New York. Replacing Edward G. Robinson, who played the lead on Broadway, with Fredric March is a step aw...