As Turner Classic Movies continues to play the Oscar hits all month long, last night I watched The Caine Mutiny and Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfc. The latter I'd seen before and love, but this was my first visit with the former and while I'm sure it has been said before, the comparisons to Aaron Sorkin's screenplay for A Few Good Men are bountiful once you get to the third act court-martial of Lieutenant Steve Maryk (Van Johnson) and Ensign Keith (Robert Francis), charged with conspiring to mutiny. The charges aren't the same as those facing the two U.S. Marines in A Few Good Men and this is obviously the Navy we're dealing with, not the Marines, but the structure of the trial and in particular, the questioning of Humphrey Bogart's Lieutenant Commander Queeg is so similar it's impossible to miss. Before he begins his questioning of Queeg,...
- 2/10/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Humphrey Bogart movies: ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ ‘High Sierra’ (Image: Most famous Humphrey Bogart quote: ‘The stuff that dreams are made of’ from ‘The Maltese Falcon’) (See previous post: “Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall Movies.”) Besides 1948, 1941 was another great year for Humphrey Bogart — one also featuring a movie with the word “Sierra” in the title. Indeed, that was when Bogart became a major star thanks to Raoul Walsh’s High Sierra and John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon. In the former, Bogart plays an ex-con who falls in love with top-billed Ida Lupino — though both are outacted by ingénue-with-a-heart-of-tin Joan Leslie. In the latter, Bogart plays Dashiel Hammett’s private detective Sam Spade, trying to discover the fate of the titular object; along the way, he is outacted by just about every other cast member, from Mary Astor’s is-she-for-real dame-in-distress to Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nominee Sydney Greenstreet. John Huston...
- 8/1/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Rank the week of September 6th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time: New Releases X-men: First Class
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #91
Win Percentage: 64%
Times Ranked: 16606
Top-20 Rankings: 109
Directed By: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: James McAvoy • Michael Fassbender • Kevin Bacon • Jennifer Lawrence • Rose Byrne
Genres: Action • Based-on-Comics • Comic-Book Superhero Film • Fantasy • Science Fiction • Sci-Fi Action
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Hanna
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #570
Win Percentage: 60%
Times Ranked: 5675
Top-20 Rankings: 19
Directed By: Joe Wright
Starring: Saoirse Ronan • Eric Bana • Cate Blanchett • Tom Hollander • Olivia Williams
Genres: Action • Action Thriller • Crime • Crime Thriller • Hitman / Assassin Film • Mystery • Thriller
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Everything Must Go
(Blu-ray & DVD | R | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #5694
Win Percentage: 53%
Times Ranked: 854
Top-20 Rankings: 2
Directed By: Dan Rush
Starring: Will Ferrell • Rebecca Hall • Laura Dern • Michael Peña • Stephen Root
Genres: Comedy Drama • Drama
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Last Night
(Blu-ray & DVD | R | 2010)
Flickchart Ranking: #7377
Win Percentage:...
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #91
Win Percentage: 64%
Times Ranked: 16606
Top-20 Rankings: 109
Directed By: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: James McAvoy • Michael Fassbender • Kevin Bacon • Jennifer Lawrence • Rose Byrne
Genres: Action • Based-on-Comics • Comic-Book Superhero Film • Fantasy • Science Fiction • Sci-Fi Action
Rank This Movie
Hanna
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #570
Win Percentage: 60%
Times Ranked: 5675
Top-20 Rankings: 19
Directed By: Joe Wright
Starring: Saoirse Ronan • Eric Bana • Cate Blanchett • Tom Hollander • Olivia Williams
Genres: Action • Action Thriller • Crime • Crime Thriller • Hitman / Assassin Film • Mystery • Thriller
Rank This Movie
Everything Must Go
(Blu-ray & DVD | R | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #5694
Win Percentage: 53%
Times Ranked: 854
Top-20 Rankings: 2
Directed By: Dan Rush
Starring: Will Ferrell • Rebecca Hall • Laura Dern • Michael Peña • Stephen Root
Genres: Comedy Drama • Drama
Rank This Movie
Last Night
(Blu-ray & DVD | R | 2010)
Flickchart Ranking: #7377
Win Percentage:...
- 9/6/2011
- by Jonathan Hardesty
- Flickchart
One of Hollywood's last living actors associated with the glory days of the film industry has passed away. Van Johnson, one of the industry's glamour boys, was 92 years old. Although he never broke through to superstardom, Johnson was a popular leading man whose career peaked in the 1950s. Generally relegated to playing romantic leads, Johnson's good looks might well have prevented him from getting more interesting roles. By the 1960s, he landed prominent roles in a few "A" list studio pictures like Wives and Lovers and Divorce, American Style but from there it was basically a downhill ride. Throughout the ensuing years, he appeared largely in B movies and little-seen Euro trash productions, though he did have a supporting role in Woody Allen's 1985 film The Purple Rose of Cairo. In a column about Johnson's career, Entertainment Weekly appropriately notes that the high point was his superb performance in the...
- 12/13/2008
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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