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Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 28, 2018
While a less heralded picture, this Billy Wilder film is a minor classic built around a contrived comedic situation. Dean Martin opens playing a parodied version of himself as Dino the boozing, womanizing, but altogether good-natured playboy who makes a short pit stop in the gas station of the small read more
The Joker is Wild (1957)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 26, 2018
It required quite the journey to make it to this film, starting out with a different joker entirely. My introduction to comedian Joe E. Lewis happened because of the late, great Jerry Lewis. Revisiting his life and work I made the discovery that the comedian changed his name to avoid confusion with read more
Arrival (2016)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 23, 2018
Abbott and Costello can be placed with the most revered comic duos of the 20th century and their greatest skit revolved around a terrible miscommunication. The bit, of course, is “Who’s on First.” Whereas the “failure to communicate” found in Cool Hand Luke (1967) has read more
The Man with The Golden Arm (1955)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 22, 2018
Everybody’s habitual something ~ Kim Novak as Molly Otto Preminger was the creator of a number of important “issue pictures” because he dared deal with themes that others had shied away from, mostly in part because of the production codes that ruled Hollywood well into the 1960s. read more
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 19, 2018
This propaganda extravaganza showcases Hollywood in all its glory from the Brown Derby to the Hollywoodland sign and of course the pride and joy of wartime morale-boosting, the Hollywood Canteen. It’s a bit of a faux reality, Hollywood’s rendition of what real life might actually be li read more
Caged (1950)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 17, 2018
Caged proves to be a stark, even uncompromising picture for the 1950s. Director John Cromwell had a long career in Hollywood, helmed some quality film noir, and became a subsequent casualty of the Blacklist but this just might be his finest effort. Furthermore, despite being an actress of some accl read more
Battle of the Sexes (2017)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 16, 2018
Emma Stone portraying Billie Jean King was an idea that I had never entertained before but there’s a certain resilience to her coupled with that winsome go-getter attitude which shines through her brunette locks and iconic frames. Simultaneously Steve Carell feels like just about the perfect read more
Logan Lucky (2017)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 13, 2018
On a surface level, Logan Lucky is diverting for the basic fact that it proves to be the utter antithesis of Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean films as far as heist pictures go. As one savvy newscaster notes within the film, it’s Oceans Seven-Eleven, if you will. Sure, the novelty of a red-neck read more
Allene Roberts in The Red House
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 11, 2018
This is terribly delayed but I would be remiss if I didn’t submit an entry to this year’s addition of THE REEL INFATUATION BLOGATHON. Without further ado… I’ve only seen Allene Roberts in one film and she’s hardly even the star of the picture. That privilege goes to Ed read more
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 10, 2018
Hacksaw Ridge is not for the squeamish, its greatest irony being that for a film about a man who took on the mantle of a conscientious objector and would not brandish firearms, it is a very violent film, even aggressively so. But Mel Gibson, after all, is the man who brought us Braveheart (1995) and read more
Isle of Dogs (2018)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 8, 2018
It only became apparent to me after the fact that Isle of Dogs sounds quite close to “I love dogs.” You might even say there was a certain amount of forethought in this play on words. However, the pun only works in English as the Japanese pronunciation of the comparable kanji is “I read more
Hidden Figures (2016)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 7, 2018
In some respects, this feels very much like a paint by numbers biopic that takes us through the many paces of such a narrative. The rise, fall, conflict, and self-actualization of our heroes that navigates us to the film’s conclusion. But this is also unequivocally a story that necessitated read more
Review: Back to the Future (1985)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 5, 2018
Back to the Future zooms at us as a lovely mishmash of sci-fi thrills and 50s nostalgia that feels like pure happenstance. The one purported flaw, the fact that Marty McFly has no right to be in his family, is partially understandable. As Michael J. Fox wasn’t even slated to appear in the film. He read more
I Was Born But… (1932)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 4, 2018
What strikes me right away about Yasujiro Ozu’s silent classic is just how relatable it feels. Yes, this is a Japanese film and yes, it’s silent too but watching the scenarios play out on screen have an undoubted timelessness. This is decidedly fresh material that’s blessed with h read more
I, Tonya (2017)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 2, 2018
Sufjan Stevens released a song not too long ago as an elegy to Tonya Harding. Being the modern-day folk poet that he is, he cast her as a tragic hero, championing her as a definitive portrait of an All-American girl, larger-than-life, unapologetic, and ultimately beaten back by society at large. I w read more
Review: A Place in the Sun (1951)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on May 31, 2018
George Stevens is only one among a plethora of filmmakers who came back from WWII changed. He had seen a great deal of the world’s ugliness — Dachau Concentration Camp for instance — and as a result, the films he made thereafter were more mature ruminations on humanity at l read more
After The Storm (2016)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on May 29, 2018
There is a phenomenon in Japan called hikikomori (pulling inward). It mostly applies to 20-somethings. But in 2017 an article came out in The New York Times to document a different and yet somehow similar occurrence. Many older people risk the chance of dying alone if they have no family because ma read more
Densha Otoko (2005)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on May 28, 2018
In English, it means Train Man and it finds its origins in a media franchise that now includes Manga, a book, a television show, and of course this movie. But the events of the story are purportedly based on real life when a young otaku (Japanese tech nerd) in Akihabara came to the defense of a wom read more
Review: Lost in Translation (2003)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on May 25, 2018
30 Minutes into Lost in Translation our two traveling misanthropes finally meet in the hotel lobby at the bar sharing a friendly exchange. They are two people who share one striking similarity — they are Americans in a foreign land — and they’re looking for a friend. It’s read more
Review: Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on May 23, 2018
Like you I know what it is to forget and yet still be endowed with memory. These are only a couple fragments from this film stitched together but in many ways, they encapsulate the essence of its core themes. I suppose such words ring true for all of us and Alain Resnais’ film is composed of read more