My Top 5 Favorite Movie Characters (For Now…)
Sorry, Michael Bay. When I go to the movies I want to see characters, not just explosion fodder. Because let’s face it: If all the movies offered were sex and violence, we’d probably stop going […]
OBPC #17: Going My Way, 1944
Rating: 1½ stars (out of 4) Going My Way (1944): Dir. Leo McCarey. Written by: Frank Butler and Frank Cavett, from a story by Leo McCarey. Starring: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, James Brown, […]
OBPC #16: Casablanca, 1943
Rating: 3 stars (out of 4) Casablanca (1943): Dir. Michael Curtiz. Written by: Howard Koch, Philip G. Epstein, and Julius J. Epstein, with contributions by Casey Robinson. Based upon the play Everybody Comes to Rick’s […]
OBPC #15: Mrs. Miniver, 1942
Rating: 2 stars (out of 4) Mrs. Miniver (1942): Dir. William Wyler. Written by: Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, and Claudine West. Based on the book of the same name by Jan Struther. Starring: […]
OBPC #14: How Green Was My Valley, 1941
Rating: 2½ stars (out of 4) How Green Was My Valley (1941): Dir. John Ford. Written by: Philip Dunne. Based upon the novel of the same name by Richard Llewellyn. Starring: Roddy McDowall, Walter Pidgeon, […]
REVIEW: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Rating: 4 stars (out of 4) Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012): Directed by Benh Zeitlin. Written by: Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin. Based on the play “Juicy and Delicious” by Alibar. Starring: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight […]
OBPC #13: Rebecca, 1940
Rating: 3½ stars (out of 4) Rebecca (1940): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Written by: Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, from an adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan. Based upon the novel of the same […]
OBPC #12: Gone with the Wind, 1939
Rating: 2½ stars (out of 4) Gone with the Wind (1939): Directed by Victor Fleming, with contributions by George Cukor and Sam Wood. Written by: Sidney Howard, with contributions by Oliver H.P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, […]
OBPC #11: You Can’t Take It with You, 1938
Rating: 3 stars (out of 4) You Can’t Take It with You (1938): Dir. Frank Capra. Written by: Robert Riskin. Based upon the play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. […]
OBPC #10: The Life of Emile Zola, 1937
Rating: 2½ stars (out of 4) The Life of Emile Zola (1937): Dir. William Dieterle. Written by: Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, and Geza Herczeg, from a story by Herald and Herczeg. Based upon the […]