4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 21, 2016

The Coen Brothers have always been an interesting case for me. I admit that there are still a lot of their films that I wish and need to see. Films like True Grit and Fargo I find thoroughly enjoyable or at least passable, but they do not completely resonate with...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 20, 2016

Bridge to the Sun is one of those film’s that was ahead of it time. Its main actors are hardly remembered by modern audiences. The top-billed leading lady, Carroll Baker, was probably more notorious for her controversial persona in films like Tennessee’s Williams’ Baby Doll, than she was famous. Jam   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 20, 2016

Bridge to the Sun is one of those films that was ahead of its time. Its main actors are hardly remembered by modern audiences. The top-billed leading lady, Carroll Baker, was probably more notorious for her controversial persona in films like Tennessee’s Williams’ Baby Doll than she was famous. Jame   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 19, 2016

“I don’t like anybody pushing me around. I don’t like anybody pushing you around. I don’t like anybody getting pushed around.”  Van Heflin as Sam Masterson Lewis Milestone never quite eclipsed the heights of All Quiet on the Western Front. Still, The Strange Love of Mar   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 19, 2016

“I don’t like anybody pushing me around. I don’t like anybody pushing you around. I don’t like anybody getting pushed around.”  Van Heflin as Sam Masterson Lewis Milestone never quite eclipsed the heights of All Quiet on the Western Front. Still, The Strange Love of Mar   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 18, 2016

The film is adapted from the novel of  British author Kazuo Ishiguro, who also penned The Remains of the Day. Having not read the source material, I was obliged to take this material on its own merit and so here it goes. This is a numbing, wistful, sorrowful film and...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 18, 2016

The film is adapted from the novel of  British author Kazuo Ishiguro, who also penned The Remains of the Day. Having not read the source material, I was obliged to take this material on its own merit and so here it goes. This is a numbing, wistful, sorrowful film and...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 16, 2016

Unfortunately John Carney’s Begin Again loses the unassuming charm of his earlier musical effort Once, with higher production values, bigger names, and a more crafted sound. However, it still rides easily on the charisma of its big name stars Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo. They are two indi   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 16, 2016

Unfortunately, John Carney’s Begin Again loses the unassuming charm of his earlier musical effort Once, with higher production values, bigger names, and a more crafted sound. However, it still rides easily on the charisma of its big-name stars Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo. They are two ind   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 14, 2016

Perhaps Astaire and Rogers most famous film together, Top Hat has them at top form once more, seemingly defying gravity at the full peak of the powers. The beauty of their partnership is that they’re able to tell the progression of a love story through dance, but they do it with...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 14, 2016

Perhaps Astaire and Rogers most famous film together, Top Hat has them at top form once more, seemingly defying gravity at the full peak of the powers. The beauty of their partnership is that they’re able to tell the progression of a love story through dance, but they do it with...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 14, 2016

Perhaps Astaire and Rogers most famous film together, Top Hat has them in top form once more, seemingly defying gravity at the full peak of their powers. The beauty of their partnership is that they’re able to tell the progression of a love story through dance, but they do it with...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 13, 2016

I wondered to myself, after watching Swing Time once again, if anyone else might have easily taken Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ places as films greatest dancing couple, and then I quickly discarded this heretical idea. They appeared in 10 films together with this film directed by George Ste   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 13, 2016

I wondered to myself, after watching Swing Time once again, if anyone else might have easily taken Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ places as films greatest dancing couple, and then I quickly discarded this heretical idea. They appeared in 10 films together with this film directed by George Ste   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 13, 2016

I wondered to myself, after watching Swing Time once again, if anyone else might have easily taken Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ places as films greatest dancing couple, and then I quickly discarded this heretical idea. They appeared in 10 films together with this film directed by George Ste   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 12, 2016

A quaint, unassuming film, especially up against other more lavish Ernst Lubitsch works like Trouble in Paradise and Heaven can Wait, Shop Around the Corner still manages to be in the upper crust of romantic comedies — even to this day. The story revolves around a little shop in Budapest run...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 12, 2016

A quaint, unassuming film, especially up against other more lavish Ernst Lubitsch works like Trouble in Paradise and Heaven can Wait, Shop Around the Corner still manages to be in the upper crust of romantic comedies — even to this day. The story revolves around a little shop in Budapest run...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 12, 2016

A quaint, unassuming film, especially up against other more lavish Ernst Lubitsch works like Trouble in Paradise and Heaven can Wait, Shop Around the Corner still manages to be in the upper crust of romantic comedies — even to this day. The story revolves around a little shop in Budapest run...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 10, 2016

Robert Mulligan is an unassuming film director. Man in the Moon would be his last film in a career that was not so much illustrious as it was respectable. In truth, I’ve only had the pleasure of seeing one of his other films — his crowning achievement To Kill a...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on January 10, 2016

Robert Mulligan is an unassuming film director. Man in the Moon would be his last film in a career that was not so much illustrious as it was respectable. In truth, I’ve only had the pleasure of seeing one of his other films — his crowning achievement To Kill a...   read more