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Martin & Lewis
Iconic duo, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis have a classic way at humor in their early movies. A different generation, but humor that reaches all ages. Martin was known for his charm, good looks, and his smooth Italian singing. In the movies, he was the guy who always got the girl. Lewis was the comedy relief. He had that high squeaky voice that played Martin's silly buddy.
Jasper WolfPublished 4 years ago in GeeksFilm Composer: Alex North
This is for retro-film fans. Especially, the fans of classic movie soundtracks, from the age of big budget films, with a cast of thousands! I am talking about the film music of Alex North. You may listen to the music while you read this article. (click below)
The Brave Little Toaster - A Movie Review
Do you ever wonder if the appliances throw a party as soon as you leave the house? Based on the book by the late Thomas M. Disch, The Brave Little Toaster is a 1987 animated film about five appliances traveling into the world to find their owner. Along this perilous journey, they encounter a waterfall, an evil shop appliance owner, but most importantly they learn about friendship.
Marielle SabbagPublished 4 years ago in GeeksClassic Movie Review: 'Some Like it Hot'
If you told me that I could only save one legendary film director’s career and the rest were to be destroyed, I would probably choose to save Billy Wilder’s remarkable catalog. Don’t get me wrong, I would miss Alfred Hitchcock or Michael Curtiz or Ernst Lubitsch but Wilder’s catalog has movies I simply cannot live without. The Seven Year Itch, The Apartment, Ace in the Hole, and Some Like It Hot are movies I could not think of losing forever.
Sean PatrickPublished 4 years ago in GeeksThe Iconography of Bogart and Bacall
The Big Sleep is the classic on this week's Everyone's a Critic Movie Review Podcast. We haven’t passed the title card and I am hooked by The Big Sleep. So massive and singular were Bogart and Bacall that Director Howard Hawks flashes up a silhouette of Bogart lighting Bacall’s cigarette and he knows that we know what we are seeing. This duo is so iconic that something as simple as a man lighting a woman’s cigarette is a recognizable image, a signifier of Bogart and Bacall’s couples aesthetic.
Sean PatrickPublished 4 years ago in GeeksClassic Movie Review: 'They Live' is John Carpenter at His Best
As a film critic one of my most reviled and despised opinions is that I don't care for John Carpenter’s 1978 horror movie Halloween. I find the film to be amateurish, if I may be frank, with an almost absurd level of over-praise for its filmmaking. Thankfully, my disdain for Halloween was not enough to sour me on the work of John Carpenter as a whole. I was lucky that I stuck with Carpenter as movies like The Fog, Escape from New York and the movie I am writing about today, 1988’s They Live, are genuinely brilliant movies, far more worthy of praise than Halloween.
Sean PatrickPublished 4 years ago in GeeksBe Kind, Rewind: Why We Can Still Enjoy Classic Movies
In honour of its 40th anniversary of release, ScreenRant decided to release an article detailing why horror classic 'The Shining' (1980) has 'not aged well'. In this article, ScreenRant labelled the movie as one that is misogynistic and flippant towards such pressing and sensitive issues as familial abuse.
Dani BuckleyPublished 4 years ago in GeeksA TV Episode from the Eighties Reveals the True Test of Character
In the early 1980s, a cop drama debuted that was unlike any other as this one had two women as the lead detectives. Starring Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly, Cagney and Lacey tackled controversial subjects and didn't shy away from topics that could make viewers uncomfortable. It had a special knack for episodes that challenged belief systems. This was never more visible than in the second episode of the sixth season of the series.
Rachel CarringtonPublished 4 years ago in GeeksMy Review of "Les trois couleurs : blanc (The three colors: white)"
Les trois couleurs : blanc (The three colors: white) is a pretty old movie. It came out back in 1994. I wasn't sure what I was going to get myself into but I noticed that it was a revenge movie and I usually can't really resist revenge movies. After watching this movie I noticed how dated it would seem to today's standards. Some of the things that happen in this movie would never be able to happen today but then again some of the motivations would seem pretty toxic as well.
Brian AnonymousPublished 4 years ago in GeeksThe Lost Generation
Jazz didn’t just subtly arrive in Paris, it exploded across the city. It’s generally believed Jazz began in the French Quarter of New Orleans and slowly spread across the states before World War 1. During the War, Lt. James Reese Europe and his small army of segregated African-American Soldiers played across 2,000 miles of French countryside. Lt. Europe was a well-respected bandleader from New York and with his infantry, brought a new music genre to Paris.
Mae McCreeryPublished 4 years ago in GeeksSuspicious Ends
“For the sake of their own careers, important stars won’t be villains. The idols that we put up there must do no wrong. If they do, audiences don’t approve of sort of thing”. (1)
Lawrence BenniePublished 4 years ago in GeeksThe Lasting Legacy of ‘Victor and Victoria’
The charming, operetta-style film, Viktor und Viktoria was originally released in its native Germany in 1933. It had a wider release as Victor and Victoria, with English subtitles, two years later. The latter is the version I watched for this article. The story has been reimagined several times, most famously as Blake Edwards’ Victor/Victoria in 1982 (with the incomparable Julie Andrews). Some could argue that films such as Some Like it Hot, and Tootsie were also designed with Viktor und Viktoria‘s blueprint.
MovieBabblePublished 4 years ago in Geeks