Movie Reviews
Robin Hood
Somehow I just expected more from Ridley Scott, I guess because I associate him with such wonderful movies as Alien and Thelma and Louise. But then I look over his credits and discover, to my surprise, that the list is full of crap like Gladiator (tied with Braveheart for Worst Best ... Read more »
All That Jazz
DIRECTED by Bob Fosse
PRODUCED by Robert Alan Aurthur
WRITTEN by Robert Alan Aurther & Bob Fosse
ORIGINAL MUSIC by Ralph Burns
SONGS by Peter Allen (“Everything Old is New Again”), Boudleaux Bryant & Felice Bryant (“Bye Bye Love”), Barry Mann (“On Broadway”), W Benton Overstreet (“There’ll Be Some Changes ...
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Iron Man 2
We get off to a real bad start here with Tony Stark doing his Steve Jobs impersonation at “Starkland” or some such shit, jetting in with his ego pinned to his sleeve to the roars of the adoring crowd. Exactly like an Apple new-product rollout, except of course that the screaming fans here are pretty instead of pimply, and that Tony’s narcissism is not equal to Steve’s. (Whose possibly ... Read more »
Shrek Forever After
Shrek is fed up with his family life and decides he’d like his old, carefree ogre life back. He makes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin that ends up such that he was never born. He returns to Bedford Falls to find it is now ruled by … wait a minute, that’s Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life. Okay, so Far Far Away is now ruled by Rumpy and a lot of green witches, ... Read more »
Young Frankenstein
DIRECTED by Mel Brooks
PRODUCED by Michael Gruskoff
SCREENPLAY by Gene Wilder & Mel Brooks
BASED ON THE NOVEL by Mary Shelley
MUSIC by John Morris & Irving Berlin (song “Puttin’ on the Ritz”)
CINEMATOGRAPHY by Gerald Hirschfeld
PRODUCTION DESIGN by Dale Hennesy
Blazing Saddles is probably ... Read more »
Chinatown
DIRECTED by Roman Polanski
PRODUCED by Robert Evans
WRITTEN by Robert Towne
ORIGINAL MUSIC by Jerry Goldsmith
CINEMATOGRAPHY by John A Alonzo
PRODUCTION DESIGN by Richard Sylbert
If you tortured me, if you tied me to a chair and showed me videos of George W. Bush for three days straight, if you forced me to choose my favorite ... Read more »
The Three Musketeers: The Queen’s Diamonds, and The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge
DIRECTED by Richard Lester
PRODUCED by Alexander & Ilya Salkind
SCREENPLAY by George MacDonald Fraser
BASED ON THE WORKS of Alexandre Dumas pere
ORIGINAL MUSIC by Michel Legrand (3) Lalo Schifrin (4)
CINEMATOGRAPHY by David Watkin
PRODUCTION DESIGN by Brian Eatwell
These two films have an even greater claim to be considered as one than the ... Read more »
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
DIRECTED by Francis Ford Coppola
PRODUCED by Albert S Ruddy (I) Francis Ford Coppola & Gray Frederickson (II)
SCREENPLAY by Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola
BASED ON A NOVEL by Mario Puzo
ORIGINAL MUSIC by Carmine Coppola & Nino Rota
CINEMATOGRAPHY by Gordon Willis
PRODUCTION DESIGN by Dean Tavoularis
When I was making this list ... Read more »
The Boy Friend
PRODUCED / DIRECTED by Ken Russell
SCREENPLAY by Ken Russell
BASED ON A MUSICAL by Sandy Wilson
BOOK / MUSIC / LYRICS by Sandy Wilson
MUSIC DIRECTION by Peter Maxwell Davies
CHOREOGRAPHY by Christopher Gable
CINEMATOGRAPHY by David Watkin
PRODUCTION DESIGN by Tony Walton
COSTUME DESIGN by Shirley Russell
That Ken Russell is a maniac is ... Read more »
M*A*S*H
DIRECTED by Robert Altman
PRODUCED by Leon Ericksen & Ingo Preminger
SCREENPLAY by Ring Lardner, Jr
BASED ON THE NOVEL by Richard Hooker
ORIGINAL MUSIC by Johnny Mandel (also song “Suicide Is Painless”)
CINEMATOGRAPHY by Harold E Stine
ART DIRECTION by Arthur Lonergan & Jack Martin Smith
“Attention, attention … ... Read more »