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Celluloid Heroes
http://www.celluloidheroreviews.com/
350 movies reviews and counting.
- Added on: Jul 2nd, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Paul McElligott
- Listed in: Entertainment Film
- Tags: reviews Film Cinema movies
Recent Posts
The Searchers (1956)
You speak good American for a Comanch. Somebody teach ya? John Ford’s The Searchers is a movie in desperate search for an identity. For every aspect that is excellent, two more make you want to cringe. The film seems to have feet in two eras. Its a...
Patrick McGoohan (1928-2009)
Celluloid Heroes also pauses to remember Patrick McGoohan, star of the great British TV series, The Prisoner. His movie career was long and varied as well, including Ice Station Zebra, Silver Streak and Braveheart. ...
Ricardo Montalban (1920-2009)
Celluloid Heroes pauses to remember Ricardo Montalban, who died today at the age of 88. He was, of course, most famous to television viewers for Fantasy Island and extolling the virtues of “Soft Corinthian leather,” but to this moviegoer,...
WALL-E (2008)
I didn’t know we had a pool! I think I’ve discovered at least one of the secrets of Pixar’s exasperatingly consistent excellence. Many movies are so desperately eager to dazzle us visually, put their technical prowess on display, that they lose...
Short Takes - January 2009
Okay, I’ve been away for a while. Here’s a sampling of the movies I’m seen recently. 10,000 B.C. (2008) If you are not going to entertain us, you could at least make it educational. A feature-length version of those Geico caveman co...
The Dark Knight (2008)
Do I look like a guy with a plan? Comic book movies are all grow’d up and, boy, are they gloomy. Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to his brilliant goes beyond its predecessor and gives us a rich, multi-layered story with one of the more original t...
