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Star Reporter (1939), Howard Bretherton.
Sleazy criminal defense lawyer and crook go, uh, gut to gut?A total misfire! Titular young reporter is colossally clued out, leading to the greatest case of onscreen dramatic irony not counting any Three's Company episode. How ironic, bec...
A Serious Man (2009), Ethan and Joel Coen.
Is this about F-troop?I couldn't pull my eyes away from the screen when I, along with about four other people, was watching it a couple weeks ago. So much gaudy detail and fabulous colours. But not a perfect film. Larry Gopnik, the...
Phenix City Story (1955), Phil Karlson.
Surely taught in all the Film 101 classes. Another one that steals its visual approach from the best documentary still photography work found in Life, Look and Time Magazine. Tells the story of a lawless town located in Alabama, next to a...
Body and Soul (1947), Robert Rossen.
Ugh. Flashbacks, montages, cliches ... John Garfield is a beloved movie lefty of mine, but story-wise this one reeks.Boxing scenes, both in the ring and in the locker room, have a contemporary photojournalistic quality: high contrast, sta...
It (1927), Clarence G Badger.
Blech. Everyone falls over Clara Bow, who has "it". Until they realize she might have a kid. Quite humourless....
The Little Giant (1933), Roy Del Ruth.
$45 a night? Well, I'll show them $45 a night... Bugsy uses the hotel towels to shine his shoes to get his money's worth out of his expensive suite.Just clever as hell send-up of Edward G Robinson's gangster persona. With Prohibitio...
