Movie Reviews
Titles starting with O
Olympus Has Fallen
There’s so much wrong with this movie that I won’t even attempt to list everything. There’s the usual stuff, like suicidal Secret Service agents coming out of the White House and standing there shooting their handguns for a few seconds before they’re mowed down by Korean terrorists with AK-47s, or whatever. Did they not think of standing behind the walls and popping off shots through the ... Read more »
On the Basis of Sex
We all should really get down on our knees every night and pray to whatever gods there be, the old or the new, the seven-faced or the faceless, even the bloody Lord of Light, that Ruth Bader Ginsburg wakes the next morning, ready to do battle with those fucking shitheads recently installed on the Supreme Court. She’s old. She had cancer, three times! She beat ... Read more »
On the Riviera
Danny Kaye was a huge musical comedy star back in the ‘50s, probably as big as Kelly or Astaire. His films were carefully tailored vehicles for his singular talents, which included wildly original patter songs and athletic dancing skills. They were usually quite funny, with him usually playing an incompetent of some kind, in films like The ... Read more »
Once
A short and appealing film about people making music. It plays out over about a week, during which a street musician/guitar player/songwriter meets a piano player from the Czech Republic, in Dublin. They are attracted, but for various good reasons they can’t get together. Sometimes you just meet the right person at the wrong time. We were both reminded of a film we both love, Read more »
Once Upon a Honeymoon
This reminded me a little of Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent, with Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers rushing pell-mell all over Europe as the Nazis advance. One by one the countries fall, and Cary and Ginger try to stay one step ahead, which is hard, since Ginger is married to a Nazi provocateur and saboteur who is inciting the populations in any way he can. Hubby ... Read more »
Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
… or, The Ninth Quentin Tarantino Film. QT has said that he will probably make ten films and then retire. Actually, by my count, if you consider Kill Bill, Part One, and Kill Bill, Part Two as one film, and that he only directed the Death Proof part of the double feature Read more »
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Who needs Montezuma’s Revenge when there are movies as rancid as this? Don’t drink the water, it’ll clean your bowels right out. I’d prefer a severe case of diarrhea to having to see the last hour of this movie. We quit at about 40 minutes.
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
One of those sweet little British comedies about the working class. I like them, and this is an excellent example.
Once Upon a Time (Second Season)
It kept me going right through another 22 episodes The only thing that might be a problem is that you begin to see how incredibly complex the whole thing is, and maybe begin to despair that you’ll ever understand it all. But I have to assume that would be even worse if I hadn’t seen them all in a row over just a few days, instead of a season of half a year. I would dearly love to see the ... Read more »
Once Upon a Time (TV series)
Season One. The premise was interesting. In Fairy Tale Land (or something like that), Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) marries Prince Charming (Josh Dallas), which enrages the Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla). She puts a curse on everyone there, and banishes them to a land where there are no happy endings: Our world. They all live in Storybrooke, Maine (actually British Columbia), and none of them ... Read more »