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I saw “Gravity” in 3D at a local theater on a rainy Wednesday night. When the lights went down I realized I was the only customer.  For the next 90 minutes I watched spellbinding 3D outer space action while experiencing … Continue reading →

The animated and satirical comedy, “Mary and Max,” released in 2009, features two main characters with some very serious problems.  Mary, who lives in a small town in Australia in the 1970s, has a birthmark on her forehead and possesses … Continue reading →

Carole Lombard and Fredric March are a capable screwball comedy duo in the 1937 Technicolor film “Nothing Sacred.”  Despite requiring 11 writers to work on either the screenplay or the treatment, the film succeeds as a witty newspaper story involving … Continue reading →

Bette Davis, so closely associated with Warner Brothers Studios, made her first big splash at RKO Radio Pictures in a 1934 Pandro S. Berman production called “Of Human Bondage.”  Under the capable direction of John Cromwell, Davis enthralls and invigorates … Continue reading →

“In Old Chicago,” a film released by Twentieth Century Fox in 1937, contains all the elements of an early blockbuster, including an enormous and very effective rendition of the Great Chicago Fire that’s a marvel of special effects staging.  The … Continue reading →

“Mrs. Soffel,” an interesting and unusual film released in 1984, features Diane Keaton the wife of a prison warden who falls in love with a convicted murderer. It’s a romantic drama in the prison movie genre with fine acting and … Continue reading →

It’s remarkable to see Humphrey Bogart in his last film, “The Harder They Fall,” a boxing movie released in 1956.  Bogart plays a down on his luck sportswriter named Eddie Willis who agrees to become a publicist for a mob-controlled … Continue reading →

A wonderful Italian film called “Mafioso,” which came out in 1962, tells the story of Antonio Badalamente, a Sicilian living in Milan who decides to return home with his family to his hometown in Sicily.  Antonio, played by Alberto Sordi, … Continue reading →

Joan Crawford plays a spoiled rich girl (Bonnie Jordan) forced to take a job as a cub reporter in a 1931 movie called “Dance, Fools, Dance.”  After enjoying the party life on yachts and galavanting around town with abandon, Bonnie’s … Continue reading →

MGM could put some incredible casts together, but I find it especially odd that they teamed Clark Gable, Greer Garson and Joan Blondell in a screwball comedy.  For one thing, Gable’s brand of swagger and bravado would seem to be … Continue reading →