Gun Crazy

Every once in a while a story will transcend a low budget and emerge as a “noir” classic. Movies like White Heat, for instance. This is another example. The story is very simple. A young man breaks a store window because he wants the pistol on display there. He is literally gun crazy, he just has to have firearms. And it might have ended there, with him target ... Read more »

Gunga Din

William Goldman, the great screenwriter, names this as his favorite film of all time. The title of his first novel, The Temple of Gold, came from this movie. There are others who say this is the best adventure movie ever made. I wouldn’t go that far, but it’s probably in my Top Twenty, if I ever made such a list. It was a huge production, the most expensive film ... Read more »

Gunner Palace

Everybody should see this movie.

It is not the story of George W Bush’s war, and doesn’t set out to be. It is the story of one unit, stationed in one of Uday Hussein’s palace/whorehouses, partially bombed out but still looking like Jed Clampett’s idea of a really swanky hotel. Though the setting and the climate and the people couldn’t be more different from Southeast Asia, it was ... Read more »

The Guys

A pretty straightforward filming of a stage play that dealt with the experiences of an editor who volunteered to help a New York Fire Department captain write the eulogies for eight of his men who died on 9/11. Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia do a good job. A small film, and a good one.

Guys and Dolls

Frank Sinatra really hated making this movie. The main character, Sky Masterson, is played by the non-singing Marlon Brando, the world’s biggest star at the time. Sinatra felt he should have had that part, but had to settle for the second banana, Nathan Detroit. And he was right, it was silly casting, Frank would have been better as Sky. But, being Sinatra, he was a total dick about it. ... Read more »

Gwoemul

Gwoemul (Korean, 2006) The title means “Monster” in Korean, but instead of a literal translation the distributors decided to re-name it The Host, which pretty much sucks. I guess the idea, on the surface, is that the creature is supposed to be the host of a deadly virus. It’s not, that’s all a phony tactic cooked up to keep people more scared than they need to ... Read more »