Movie Reviews
Titles starting with C
Casa de los Babys
A John Sayles movie. I like his stuff and this was … okay. Rita Moreno had a supporting role. It never quite all came together, though.
Casablanca
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Produced by Hal B Wallis & Jack L Warner
Screenplay by Julius J & Philip G Epstein & Howard Koch
From the play Everybody Comes to Rick’s by Murray Bennett & Joan Alison
Original music by Max Steiner
Cinematography by Arthur Edeson
Art direction by Carl Jules Weyl
Realizing the importance of the case, ... Read more »
Casino
This is the middle film of Martin Scorsese’s Mob Trilogy, coming after Goodfellas and before The Departed. The first two feature Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, though in different settings, and the last has Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson. I guess you could say that The Irishman was the ... Read more »
Casino Royale
It’s kind of sad when the best thing about a movie is its soundtrack. I owned it when it was new, being a fan of both Burt Bacharach and the Tijuana Brass. It is still very, very good. The rest of the movie … well, I liked it a lot when it was new, but that was in the Swingin’ Sixties. I had recently taken my first acid trip, and many images in this film reproduced those visuals with ... Read more »
Cassandra’s Dream
(OLD REVIEW) You never know what you’re going to get with Woody Allen. I don’t expect any more flat-out joke-filled comedies like Bananas or Sleeper from him anymore (sadly), but other than that, pretty much anything goes, right across the dramatic spectrum from tragedy to comedy or a mix of both. And when he is good he is very, very ... Read more »
Cat Ballou
For some unknown reason, I read two westerns around 1966: True Grit, and The Ballad of Cat Ballou. I don’t know why. I just don’t read westerns. It’s possible they were movie tie-ins, as the movies came out around that time. I enjoyed both of them, and the movies made from them. This one is clever and funny, though a lot of the first ... Read more »
The Cat in the Hat
No, I didn’t see this. I don’t like the strip, I don’t like cats, and just seeing the trailer was enough to make me cough up a giant hairball. I envision that watching this movie would be like sucking shit out of Garfield’s ass. I’d rather empty a litter box with my tongue than go see it. I’m thinking of spraying all over my home, marking my territory, to be sure this raggedy-ass puss ... Read more »
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
First I will get the obligatory name dropping out of the way, okay? I mean, what’s the point of meeting famous people if you can’t brag about it? In this case it involves a stage production in Toronto while we were filming Millennium. Joanne Woodward was playing Maggie the Cat, and Charles Durning was Big Daddy. The cool thing was that I saw it as a member of ... Read more »
Cat People
Forty years previous, Val Lewton made the original Cat People, which is a classic of horror. It relies on the principle, which I totally endorse, that what you don’t see is a lot scarier then what you do see. The two prime examples of this, to me, are Jaws and Alien. The tension builds incredibly before you ... Read more »
Catastrophe
It’s an odd name, doesn’t really tell me anything about the show, but the premise is simple. An American in London has a one-night (actually two or three night) stand with a British woman. A few months later she calls him up and tells him she is pregnant. He goes back to London to try to do the right thing. Naturally they face a lot of challenges, but by the end of the first season they ... Read more »