His Girl Friday: A comedy about newspaper men (and women). The film starts with a scene where the ex-wife of an editor at a newspaper (at least, I think he’s the editor) tells him she’s going to get married to an insurance salesman, and live happily ever after. I can’t remember now why she even […]
Month: October 2009
Movie: Roman Holiday (1953)
Roman Holiday: Audrey Hepburn’s first real film, apparently. And, she seemed a natural in it. The film is about a princess who decides to take a break from a hectic schedule while in Rome, and escapes for a day, and experiences life as a ‘normal’ person. It’s a very sweet film, Gregory Peck is fantastic […]
Movie: Dial M for Murder (1954)
Dial M for Murder: Another Hitchcock thriller. The film starts with a scene in a home, husband and wife, seemingly happy. We learn not long after that the wife has a lover. Initially we don’t realise that the husband knows, but, he does! He ends up planning a murder of his wife, but, things don’t […]
Movie: The French Connection (1971)
The French Connection: A film I had vaguely heard of, but, didn’t really know what it was about. Well, it’s about a big drug dealer from France making shipments to New York, and some detectives seem to stumble upon it by chance. Though, I don’t think they really know what was really going on themselves, […]
Movie: The African Queen (1951)
The African Queen: I watched this on Wednesday night, so I’ve already forgotten some parts of this movie! The beginning almost put me off this film completely – it starts off with African natives ‘singing’ in a church, and it just sounds like a droning. Luckily, it was only at the beginning of the film! […]
Movie: August Rush (2007)
August Rush: I expected this film to be a little soppy, due to the synopsis, it did not disappoint. It was indeed rather soppy in parts! Another of my favourite actors is in this – Robin Williams, and IÂ was waiting to see what kind of character he would play – the image in my head […]
Movie: Taken (2008)
Taken: A pure action flick, with a kind of favourite actor. Liam Neeson was excellent in this. Initially as a kind of sad/lonely kind of guy, and, then, as a man on a mission, and boy, is he relentless. 🙂 This is a very violent film, and some of the other main actresses (the daughter, […]
Movie: In the Heat of the Night (1967)
In the Heat of the Night: This film conflicts with me a bit. It’s basically about an out of town black cop, versus a white town’s police, at least in the first instance. After initially being taken in for questioning about a murder (purely for being black). The police chief in the town that Sidney […]
Movie: The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Philadelphia Story: A romantic comedy about people living the high life. It has one of my favourite actors in – James Stewart, and he’s great, as always. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn were also very good in this film. The film starts with a scene in which Cary Grant’s character is leaving Katharine Hepburn, […]
Movie: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
All Quiet on the Western Front: A world war 1 film from the perspective of German soldiers. It’s based on a German novel. IÂ found this film really quite interesting. With the naivety, or perhaps simply brainwashing that the boys had at school, followed by the realisation of what war really was. Especially good was the […]