4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on October 14, 2017

Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski. They’re both so iconic not simply in the lore of cinema history but literature and American culture in general. It’s difficult to know exactly what to do with them. Stanley Kowalksi the archetypical chauvinistic beast. Driven by anger, prone to abuse,   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on October 12, 2017

Cat People has one of those sensationalized B-picture premises and there are moments when its meager aspects let slip that this is a low-budget effort, but within those restrictions, it moves with a certain purpose and chilliness. It’s true that producer Val Lewton had a B-movie renaissance go   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on October 12, 2017

Cat People has one of those sensationalized B-picture premises and there are moments when its meager aspects let slip that this is a low-budget effort, but within those restrictions, it moves with a certain purpose and chilliness. It’s true that producer Val Lewton had a B-movie renaissance go   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on October 9, 2017

Themla & Louise hardly feels like typical Ridley Scott fare but then again, neither is this a typical movie. It pulls from numerous genres that have been depicted countless times before from buddy movies to caper comedies, road films, and the like. But perhaps the intrigue begins with the two le   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on October 9, 2017

Themla & Louise hardly feels like typical Ridley Scott fare but then again, neither is this a typical movie. It pulls from numerous genres that have been depicted countless times before from buddy movies to caper comedies, road films, and the like. But perhaps the intrigue begins with the two le   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on October 6, 2017

The last time I saw Hoosiers it was on VHS and I was only a boy and I hardly remember anything. Gene Hackman yelling. Dennis Hopper as a drunk. Jimmy the boy wonder, “The Picket Fence”, and of course Indiana basketball at its finest. But in those opening moments, as...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on October 6, 2017

The last time I saw Hoosiers it was on VHS and I was only a boy and I hardly remember anything. Gene Hackman yelling. Dennis Hopper as a drunk. Jimmy the boy wonder, “The Picket Fence”, and of course Indiana basketball at its finest. But in those opening moments, as...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on October 3, 2017

Despite my general reluctance to say that the Western in its classical form was on the way out, it’s hard not to make such an assertion looking at the landscape of the late 1960s. The Wild Bunch is a common marker of the seismic shift leading to the complete obliteration...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on October 3, 2017

Despite my general reluctance to say that the Western in its classical form was on the way out, it’s hard not to make such an assertion looking at the landscape of the late 1960s. The Wild Bunch is a common marker of the seismic shift leading to the complete obliteration...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on September 30, 2017

It’s no secret that Sam Fuller cut his teeth in the journalism trade at the ripe young age of 18 (give or take a year) and so Park Row is not just another delicious B picture from one of the best, it’s a passion project memorializing the trade that he...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on September 30, 2017

It’s no secret that Sam Fuller cut his teeth in the journalism trade at the ripe young age of 18 (give or take a year) and so Park Row is not just another delicious B picture from one of the best, it’s a passion project memorializing the trade that he...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on September 28, 2017

Apparently the name McLintock doesn’t come with the letter T. At least that’s the sense you get when the townsfolk send a salutation to the estimable cattle baron G.W. McLintock (John Wayne). Those who do pronounce that T are either out of towners, educated people, or probably the folks   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on September 28, 2017

Apparently the name McLintock doesn’t come with the letter T. At least that’s the sense you get when the townsfolk send a salutation to the estimable cattle baron G.W. McLintock (John Wayne). Those who do pronounce that T are either out of towners, educated people, or probably the folks   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on September 25, 2017

Initially, I Remember Mama comes off underwhelmingly. It’s overlong, there’s little conflict, and some of the things the story spends time teasing out seem odd and inconsequential at best. Still, within that framework is a narrative that manages to be rewarding for its utter sincerity in   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on September 25, 2017

Initially, I Remember Mama comes off underwhelmingly. It’s overlong, there’s little conflict, and some of the things the story spends time teasing out seem odd and inconsequential at best. Still, within that framework is a narrative that manages to be rewarding for its utter sincerity in   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on September 23, 2017

Upon being thrown headlong into Christopher Nolan’s immersive wartime drama Dunkirk, it becomes obvious that it is hardly a narrative film like any of the director’s previous efforts because it has a singular objective set out. It’s economical (shorter than many of most recent effo   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on September 23, 2017

Upon being thrown headlong into Christopher Nolan’s immersive wartime drama Dunkirk, it becomes obvious that it is hardly a narrative film like any of the director’s previous efforts because it has a singular objective set out. It’s economical (shorter than many of most recent effo   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on September 22, 2017

Before the exoticism of Casablanca, Algiers, or even Road to Morroco, there was Josef Von Sternberg’s just plain Morocco but it’s hardly a run-of-the-mill romance. Far from it. Although it involves soldiers, it’s also hardly a war film but instead set against a backdrop that presen   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on September 22, 2017

Before the exoticism of Casablanca, Algiers, or even Road to Morroco, there was Josef Von Sternberg’s just plain Morocco but it’s hardly a run-of-the-mill romance. Far from it. Although it involves soldiers, it’s also hardly a war film but instead set against a backdrop that presen   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on September 22, 2017

Before the exoticism of Casablanca, Algiers, or even Road to Morroco, there was Josef Von Sternberg’s just plain Morocco but it’s hardly a run-of-the-mill romance. Far from it. Although it involves soldiers, it’s also hardly a war film but instead set against a backdrop that presen   read more