Category Archives: Classics
The Movies Top Five Scariest Living Dead
Haley Joel Osment, Bruce Willis in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense Today is the Day of Dead. In honor of this Christianized pagan holiday — the pagans had the foresight to come up with most of the overworked Western world’s religious holidays — in the follow-up posts you’ll find my Top Five Scariest Living Dead Movie Actors. By that, I don’t mean the actors [...]
RAN Review Pt.2 – Not a Retelling of Shakespeare’s KING LEAR
Mieko Harada in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran RAN Review: Part I Also, like Lear, all in the clan end up dead. But there are some major differences, aside from the depth and realism found in Kurosawa’s film. Lear’s past is an unknown. When we observe his suffering, we are apt to feel pity for him as a character — even in poorly wrought scenes. Hidetora, on [...]
THE WAR GAME Review Pt.2 – Nuclear Holocaust in Britain
Peter Watkins‘ The War Game THE WAR GAME Review: Part I Given the spate of nuclear Armageddon films made in the 1960s — e.g., Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe, Franklin J. Schaffner’s Planet of the Apes — and up through the early 1980s television production The Day After, it’s remarkable how such a low-budget effort like The War Game retains its effectiveness when almost all other [...]
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Review – Lew Ayres Lewis Milestone
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) Direction: Lewis Milestone Cast: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, Russell Gleason, John Wray, William Bakewell, Raymond Griffith, Beryl Mercer, Ben Alexander, Slim Summerville, Yola D’Avril Screenplay: Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews; from Erich Maria Remarque’s novel Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Lew Ayres, All Quiet on the Western Front Synopsis: World War I: A group of German schoolboys soon [...]