COOGAN’S BLUFF
By Marc S. Sanders Coogan’s Bluff is hardly Clint Eastwood’s best film. The first collaboration with director Don Siegel is thin on story, flat on romance and light on its bad guy. However, it is an important chapter in Eastwood’s storied career. Shortly after the famed Sergio Leone spaghetti western Dollars trilogy, and ahead of his big city cop pictures, Coogan’s…
COYOTE VS. ACME
By Marc S. Sanders It’s ironic and a bit reflective to think about how Coyote Vs. Acme eventually made it to theaters. Along with an anticipated release of Batgirl, featuring another return for Michael Keaton as Batman, the Looney Tunes feature was abruptly shelved by Warner Brothers as a tax write off. Corporate America was exercising its accountant’s bloody fist in order…
BREEZY
By Marc S. Sanders The great thing about following Clint Eastwood’s career that spans over seventy years is there is so much I still have to uncover. For example, following his well-known directed pictures Play Misty For Me and High Plains Drifter, he followed up with a surprising May-December meet cute romance called Breezy, which marks the first time he…
DON’T SAY GOOD LUCK
By Marc S. Sanders Adam Sandler’s production company, Happy Madison, has released a new film for his daughter, Sunny Sandler, to star in, and like her their previous collaboration, You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah, it’s an engaging, comedically emotional hit. Don’t Say Good Luck is not as strong as the family dramas that are…
THE DRAMA
By Marc S. Sanders A happy couple ends up not so happy when they get a little too honest with each other. After watching Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama, I’m left unsure of what was supposed to be learned or what I’m supposed to take away from his picture. Is he telling me that when you are on…
ELYSIUM
By Marc S. Sanders Neill Blomkamp is that writer/ director who escapes my memory until I see a movie trailer with one of his signature robot designs weaved into the populace of his dystopian stories, like in his widely recognized District 9 and Chappie, which I’ve yet to see. These androids are as capable as humans but primarily devoid…
THE END OF OAK STREET
By Marc S. Sanders I look at a movie like The End Of Oak Street and I think to myself didn’t we once have all that we needed? As kids raised in suburban life, we had our share of turmoil when mom and dad wouldn’t stop bickering and the neighborhood bully wouldn’t leave us alone. However, Superman bedding, books…
ANATOMY OF A MURDER
By Marc S. Sanders I’m a sucker for courtroom theatrics and Otto Preminger’s Anatomy Of A Murder is no exception. Though it is sorely out of date when most of today’s viewing audiences have at least one Law & Order episode under their belt. Preminger’s film, adapted from the novel by Robert Traver and inspired by a…
DEAD CALM
By Marc S. Sanders During the summer of sequels in 1989 (Lethal Weapon 2, Ghostbusters 2, Indiana Jones 3, Batman 1, Dalton/James Bond 2), Phillip Noyce directed a sleeper thriller that took place in the middle of the ocean with only three actors at his disposal. Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill play the married couple…
CHARADE
By Marc S. Sanders I’d always heard that Stanley Donen’s Charade was the definitive Hitchcock movie that was not directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Maybe that’s true. Yet, having watched it over sixty years after its release, I get the feeling this paved the way for other comedy/thrillers like what Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn did in Foul Play or Bruce Willis…
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