West Side Story (2021) Film Review
West Side Story is Spielberg’s Triumph! Of course, it is Anita who is the real star of the movie and Ariana DeBose is astonishing.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 13, 2021 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Disney+ | You Tube, Drama, Film Reviews, Gangster, Genres, Musicals, Romance
West Side Story is Spielberg’s Triumph! Of course, it is Anita who is the real star of the movie and Ariana DeBose is astonishing.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Disney+ | You Tube, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Hitchcock, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
“Rebecca”, marked the arrival in Hollywood of the man who was, or would eventually become, the greatest director in the history of cinema.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 5, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+ | You Tube, Drama, Film Noir, Hitchcock, Mystery, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Alfred Hitchcock, the cinema’s greatest director, made seven perfect films in which every shot, every camera move, every editing sequence is, well, perfect.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 6, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Apple TV+, Disney+ | You Tube, Drama, Film Noir, Hitchcock, My Favorites, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming
The term “MacGuffin” originated by Angus MacPhail for film, adopted by Alfred Hitchcock, and later extended to a similar device in other fiction. The MacGuffin here is the Uranium in the cellar.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+ | You Tube, Drama, Film Noir, Historic Events, Hitchcock, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
The story, which is based on the Leopold and Loeb case is irresistible. Granger and Dall are perfection and Jimmy Stewart is also amazing.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+ | You Tube, Drama, Film Noir, Hitchcock, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Hitchcock reverses himself here, having gay actor Farley Granger play the straight character and straight actor Robert Walker play the gay character.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 6, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+ | You Tube, Drama, Film Noir, Hitchcock, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Anchored by an incredible performance by James Stewart as Scotty Ferguson a private detective and ex-cop who suffers from vertigo (fear of heights) after a coworker fell to his death, and Kim Novak is spectacular in the dual role of Judy/Madeleine.
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Eva Marie Saint gives Grace Kelly in “Rear Window” a run for her money as Hitchcock’s most elegant leading lady and the chemistry between the two leads is more palpable than in any Hollywood picture before or since.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+ | You Tube, Drama, Film Noir, Hitchcock, Horror, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Road Movie, Thriller
Anthony Perkins’ Norman Bates made him immortal while, at the same, time, ending his career in Hollywood. A masterpiece.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Cinematographers, Disney+ | You Tube, Drama, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV
Writer/director Bryan Forbes lovely and faithful adaptation of the Lynne Reid Banks novel boasts Leslie Caron’s greatest performance.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 31, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Disney+ | You Tube, Drama, Film Reviews, Masterpieces, Thriller
“The Best Man” boasts three outstanding performances: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson and pre-code star Lee Tracy who returns to the screen.
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On the stage Dyer may have been trying to project two sides of his own personality. However, any such subtlety is lost in translation.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 5, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Disney+ | You Tube, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Under Appreciated
Starring a luminous Carrie Snodgress, the last movie that director Frank Perry and his screenwriter wife Eleanor made together is their best.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Disney+ | You Tube, Drama, Queer Film/TV
And then there Tillie’s other best friend Jimmy, the film’s token gay guy, played by René Auberjonois, who had one of the most memorable names in cinema.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Disney+ | You Tube, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Rita Walden, played beautifully by Joanne Woodward, in what is probably her best performance is about to go through a midlife crisis.
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