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spookytuesdaypod · 6 months

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#death proof #grindhouse 2007 #quentin tarantino #eli roth #omar doom #michael bacall #spooky tuesday

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adamwatchesmovies · 10 months

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

Each viewing of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World reveals new depths to its narrative and humour, making its failure at the box office an even bigger shame. Well, better late than never. Go in for the memorable characters, arresting visual style, humour, and creative story. Come back to catch all the gags you missed. See it a third time to see what this movie is REALLY about.

22-year-old Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is a slacker musician dating 17-year-old high schooler Knives Chau (Ellen Wong). He's with her because he knows it’ll go nowhere. It's only a matter of time before he dumps her, which will be easy. Enter Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). Promptly ditching Knives for the Amazon delivery girl of his dreams, Scott learns he must defeat her seven evil exes before they can date.

If the plot sounds crazy, it is. Director Edgar Wright (who co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Bacall, based off the comic series by Bryan Lee O’Malley) injects special effects in nearly every scene. References and Easter eggs to video games are everywhere in the form of health meters, bonus points, sound cues, non-sequiturs, and more. You can have a great time with a notepad playing “spot the reference” but it’ll be tough. There are so many and the deluge of gags is one hell of a distraction. It’s an outlandish tale with many characters and to ensure you never forget who’s who, we have a hugely talented cast bringing these quirky people to life. Kieran Culkin as Scott’s gay and very seductive roommate, Chris Evans, Brandon Routh, Jason Schwartzman and more as Ramona’s evil exes, Anna Kendrick as Scott’s disapproving younger sister, Aubrey Plaza, Brie Larson, Alison Pill, Johnny Simmons and Mark Webber as Scott’s friends/bandmates... Every time one of them appears on-screen again, you perk up. What hilarious new line are they going to deliver? It never fails. You always laugh out loud.

This is sort of a “battle of the bands” movie, meaning you get all sorts of musical talents adding extra oomph to the dazzling visuals. The score & soundtrack is another character, another reason to re-watch the film so you can properly see (well, hear) how every note perfectly compliments the characters’ actions and the point we’re at in the story.

While you’re dazzled by the audio and visual, you might overlook one of the most important aspects of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: its theme. Those references to bands and video games? They’re just gravy. The fact is, this movie has a great message. It’s not actually about battling a bunch of crazy enemies in order to get a prize lady. All that’s a metaphor. What this movie is actually about is a slacker, a person you’re not really supposed to like. Scott is lazy and he’s stringing Knives along. Even when it’s obvious he wants to move on to the new hot thing, he takes way too long to admit it. When he does get with “the girl of his dreams”, he takes forever to get over the fact that she has a past, that Ramona broke some hearts and was selfish in her past relationships despite Scott having done the same thing to Knives. The battles he fights are actually against himself. To win Ramona, what he must actually do is learn humility and self-respect. This is what pushes Scott Pilgrim vs. the World from being “merely” good to being great. If you really look at it, you’ll learn something.

I might change my mind about this the next time I view it but right now, the only flaw I’ll bring up is the running time. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World a fast-paced, highly economical movie, which makes seven evil exes A LOT of enemies. The combat actually winds up slowing the film down and I can think of a couple of bad guys who could’ve been removed without losing much. Otherwise, it’s an instant favorite. You’ll want to come back to it over and over thanks to its unmistakable style, the ample creative choices made throughout, the humor and the characters. (On Blu-ray, July 24, 2020)

#scott pilgrim vs. the world #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #edgar wright #michael bacall #bryan lee o'malley #michael cera #mary elizabeth winstead #kieran culkin #chris evans #anna kendrick #alison pill #brandon routh #jason scwartzman #2010 movies #2010 films

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therealmrpositive · 2 months

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Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

In today's review, I find that the next urban legend may lie in the cut. As I attempt a #positive review of the 2000 sequel Urban Legends: Final Cut #JenniferMorrison #MatthewDavis #HartBochner #LorettaDevine #JosephLawrence #EvaMendes #JessicaCauffiel

What is art, but a reflection, of our experiences, our impressions, our tastes, and what came before us? Filtered through our perceptions, the same facts could have wildly different interpretations, like a game of Telephone, hearsay, or even an urban legend. In 2000, a film about making a film about urban legends became the familiar lurking ground for a slasher film, in Urban Legends: Final…

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duranduratulsa · 10 months

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Now showing on my 90's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon...Free Willy (1993) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #actionadventure #freewilly #JasonJamesRichter #loripetty #augustschellenberg #JayneAtkinson #michaelmadsen #danielleharris #mykeltiwilliamson #michaelbacall #michaelironside #RichardRiehle #dvd #90s #90sfest #durandurantulsas3rdannual90sfest

#movies #movie #action adventure #free willy #jason james richter #lori petty #August Schellenberg #jayne atkinson #Michael Madsen #Michael Ironside #Michael Bacall #Richard Riehle #Danielle Harris #mykelti williamson #dvd #90s fest #90s #duran duran tulsa's 3rd annual 90s fest #Spotify

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abs0luteb4stard · 2 years

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W A T C H I N G

Catching up on missed movies...

#URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT (2000)#Jennifer Morrison #Matthew Davis #Hart Bochner #Loretta Devine #Joseph Lawrence #Anson Mount #Eva Mendes #Jessica Cauffiel #Anthony Anderson #Michael Bacall #Marco Hofschneider #Jacinda Barrett #Chas Lawther #Chuck Campbell #Yani Gellman #Rebecca Gayheart #horror #WATCHING

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cantsayidont · 5 months

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Video Killed the Radio Star

If you don't already feel sufficiently alienated from the culture of your generation, consider getting into old time radio. It's pretty easy to do: Radio was mainstream media from the 1930s well into the 1950s, and it hung on for quite a while after it started losing ground to television. There's a huge amount of programming in various genres, and a surprising amount of it survives; there was a cottage industry in OTR cassettes and CDs for many years, a lot of shows can be found in MP3 format without much effort, and some of it pops up regularly on streaming platforms.

The easiest way to get into it is if you're already got a fondness for some older Hollywood star: If they were a movie star between 1930 and 1960, there's a good chance they guest-starred in various radio shows, and they might even have had their own show for a while. For instance, do you like Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall? Around 1950, they had their own syndicated radio adventure series, BOLD VENTURE, which was essentially an extended riff on their characters in the 1944 film version of TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. Orson Welles, of course, was a big radio star, playing the lead on THE SHADOW in 1937–38 and then bringing his Mercury Theatre company to a number of different one-hour and half-hour radio series. Vincent Price starred for several seasons as Leslie Charteris's Simon Templar on THE SAINT. And almost everyone who was anyone showed up now and again on SUSPENSE or LUX RADIO THEATRE (which produced all-star one-hour adaptations of popular movies). If you're a Superman or Sherlock Holmes fan, the radio versions of those characters are a must — Holmes was a perennial presence on English-language radio for decades.

If you want something more modern, the British kept producing generally high-quality radio dramas in surprising volume until relatively recently, including a range of both adaptations and originals. Unlike American radio, the survival rate for older British programs from the '40s and '50s is poor, but the BBC has continued periodically airing its better material from the '70s through the '00s, a lot of which has been offered on cassette and CD. For instance, there were excellent BBC radio series dramatizing the Wodehouse Jeeves and Wooster stories (with Michael Hordern and Richard Briers); Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey series (with Ian Carmichael); and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries (with John Moffat), along with standalone plays on programs like SATURDAY-NIGHT THEATRE. The big limitation with British radio dramas is that the number of British radio actors who can do convincing American accents is not high (and is definitely lower than the number who mistakenly think they can), and the availability of American actors who know how to act for radio is clearly even more limited, which can become a grating problem when dramatizing American material.

One of the reasons that listening to older (and/or British) radio shows will contribute to your cultural alienation is that it will make a lot of modern dramatic podcast series and audio dramatizations excruciating, because it will reveal to you how bad a lot of modern audio dramatists and performers are at this once commonplace art. (If you are or are contemplating doing a dramatic podcast or audio drama, please, for the love of dog, make a close study of radio shows created before you were born, and diversify enough to recognize the mediocrity of hacks like Dirk Maggs, who's been stinking up audio drama on two continents for four decades now.)

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gatutor · 4 months

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Gary Cooper-Lauren Bacall "El rey del tabaco" (Bright leaf) 1950, de Michael Curtiz.

#Lauren Bacall #Gary Cooper #Michael Curtiz

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silveragelovechild · 5 months

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I just rewatched the 1974 version of “Murder on the Orient Express”. While the 2017 version directed by Kenneth Branagh was entertaining, the earlier version directed by Sidney Lumet is both superior and terrific.

Even 50 years later, the all star cast shines bright: Lauren Bacall as Mrs Hubbard, Sean Connery as Colonel Arbuthnott, Vanessa Redgrave as Mary Debenham, Jacqueline Bisset as Countess Andrenyi and Michael York as the Count; Ingrid Bergman (who won an Oscar) as the Swedish nurse. And of course Albert Finney starring performance as Hercule Poirot.

Aside from Agatha Christie’s wonderful murder mystery plot, one of my favorite elements of the film is the music by Richard Bennett - absolutely terrific. He won a BAFTA award and was nominated for an Oscar.

“Murder on the Orient Express” is available on Netflix until January 31.

#murder mystery #murder on the orient express #agatha christie #hercule poirot #albert finney #lauren bacall #Michael York #ingrid bergman #Jacqueline Bisset #sean connery

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oldtimesnew · 5 months

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Richard Amsel, Murder on the Orient Express, 1974

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dailylooneys · 1 year

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Bacall to Arms not only spoofs that movie's [To Have or Not to Have] impact on the American libido, but gives Bob Clampett a chance to make a "wolf" cartoon of his own. While the gags are very funny, the cartoon has a patched-together feel that ultimately vies Avery's wolf cartoons the edge [...] The fact that Clampett's wolf can be upstaged by a little gosling shows the lack of focus undercuts this cartoon. Avery lets no walk-on characters take away from the clash between the Wolf and Red. Clampett's wolf, on the other hand, isn't even in the same reality as "BeCool" [...] The "cartoon wolf" phenomenon was mostly spent when "Bacall to Arms" came out, and Warner cartoons would soon avoid anything that smacked of the erotic.

Michael Samerdyke on Bacall to Arms (Cartoon Carnival: A Critical Guide to the Best Cartoons from Warner Brothers, MGM, Walter Lantz and DePatie-Freleng)

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darlingbandit · 10 months

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Bogart’s favorite pastimes were chess, sailing, and drinking.

When he was a struggling Broadway actor he would charge people to play against him in chess. He also played chess by mail; he claimed that during World War II the government suspected him of hiding secrets in his letters to competitors and censoring them.

Here he is playing chess with friends and coworkers.

#Humphrey Bogart #Paul Henreid #Michael Curtiz #Casablanca #Lauren Bacall #Walter Sande #To Have and Have Not #Lizabeth Scott #Dead Reckoning

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adamwatchesmovies · 1 year

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22 Jump Street (2014)

Like all great sequels, 22 Jump Street builds and expands upon its predecessor. Everything that film did, this one does bigger, better and funnier.

2 years after their success in the 21 Jump Street program, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) have moved on. After a drug bust goes bad, they are sent back to work for Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) - now at 22 Jump Street. Their assignment is to go undercover as college students and find the supplier of a new drug. So basically, do the exact same thing they did last time.

21 Jump Street was very self-aware. It knew how preposterous its premise was and delighted in poking fun at it. This same genre of humor returns for the sequel and it's cranked up significantly. That means big laughs. At many points throughout the characters refer to movie tropes, to behind-the-scenes developments that ensured this film was going to be made, to the absurdity of the 21 Jump Street program getting a sequel 2 years later and more. If there’s a joke to be said about the potential - or missed potential - of sequels, directors Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and writers Michael Bacall, Oren Uziel & Rodney Rothman have found a way to insert it in. This is the kind of film that makes you want to do some research. You want to check out all the trivia pages to catch all of the gags you missed. You want to listen to the commentary and watch the special features so you can figure out how many more layers these jokes have. Then, you want to re-watch so you can see everything you missed the first time.

More often than not, this comedy plays with your expectations. It knows that because you’ve seen the first one, you know some things will be the same and some things will be inverted so it inverted the things that were supposed to be the same and inverted the… wait. That’s not right. What I’m trying to say is that the film’s not predictable. Or maybe you could figure out who the drug dealer is if you weren’t so busy laughing.

Once again, Hill and Tatum have terrific chemistry together and their back-and-forth makes the story even better. What’s happening is ridiculous but you legitimately worry about whether the wedge being driven between them by this mission will be the end of this duo. If any series would defy the accountants and say “we’re not making a third one, no matter what”, this is it. Cementing this uproarious spirit of defiance are the end credits, which contain the best post-movie gag I’ve ever seen.

The only joke that falls flat has Rob Riggle and Dave Franco return as the characters from the last time. Unfortunately, the film goes back to them over and over. It stops the film dead every time. Otherwise, this comedy is great. It’s packed with laughs and surprises, smart gags, creative bits of writing, meta-commentary, and heart too. I’d recommend 22 Jump Street for the end credit sequence alone. I don’t know if we’ll get another… but if we do, I'm there, no questions asked. (February 20, 2019)

#22 Jump Street #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Phil Lord #Christopher Miller #Michael Bacall #Oren Uziel #Rodney Rothman #Jonah Hill #Channing Tatum #Peter Stormare #Ice Cube #2014 movies #2014 films

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movietitlescollection · 11 months

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#Casablanca #michael curtiz #lauren bacall #ingrid bergman #old movies #classic film #Humphrey Bogart

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duranduratulsa · 2 years

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Up next on my 90's Fest Movie 🎥 and TV 📺 Marathon...Free Willy (1993) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #drama #actionadventure #familymovie #whale #orca #freewilly #JasonJamesRichter #loripetty #augustschellenberg #JayneAtkinson #michaelmadsen #ripaugustschellemberg #danielleharris #mykeltiwilliamson #michaelironside #michaelbacall #RichardRiehle #Keiko #dvd #90s #90sfest #durandurantulsas2ndannual90sfest

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raynbowclown · 2 years

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Murder on the Orient Express [1974]

Murder on the Orient Express (1974) starring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Michael York, directed by Sidney Lumet Synopsis of Murder on the Orient Express Famous detective Hercule Poirot is on the Orient Express, but the train is caught in the snow. When one of the passengers is discovered murdered, Poirot immediately starts investigating the Murder on the Orient Express. (more…)

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#1974 #Albert Finney #Anthony Perkins #Dame Wendy Hiller #Ingrid Bergman #Jacqueline Bisset #Jean-Pierre Cassel #Lauren Bacall #Martin Balsam #Michael York #Rachel Roberts #Richard Widmark #Sidney Lumet #Sir John Gielgud #Sir Sean Connery #Vanessa Redgrave

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gatutor · 11 months

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Kirk Douglas-Lauren Bacall "El trompetista" (Young Man with a horn) 1950, de Michael Curtiz.

#Lauren Bacall #Kirk Douglas #Michael Curtiz

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