The imagery still haunts after all these years. The lunatics loose in the pouring rain. Those tall hedges. The shaking light in the wardrobe. The “Shape” that takes form in the dark background. Standing at the top of the stairs. Striding across the street toward the camera, toward Laurie Strode, knife glistening. Even in the daylight, the “Shape” walks among the people unseen but it watches them. The Boogeyman.
The movie that invented all the tropes; the “now you see…
“Do you have any children?”
“Only when there are no men around.”
This is a forgotten little gem from Ken Russell featuring impossibly young versions of Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi (who looks an awful lot like Harold Ramis in Stripes). It has a retro (for 1988) feel to it, either parody or homage to the Hammer Horrors of the Sixties or the Roger Corman/Vincent Price series of Poe adaptations where Amanda Donahoe is basically the Vincent Price character here…
Elegant pre-code comedy of the sophisticate set about a dashing gentleman jewel 'robber' (not a thief!) played by tuxedoed William Powell who meets baroness Kay Francis while knocking over a jeweler. Powell really lays on all his charms in this one, as does Francis- so giddy by the sight of jewelry she's like a little girl in a candy store.
This earns its Pre-Code status by having Powell sedate the jewelers and bankers and security guards by having them smoke…
Happy October!
Pumpkin spice donuts. Stout beer. Raking leaves...
And Halloween...the night He came home.
You there. Yes, you, you fool! You will go and watch The Invisible Man now, do you hear? Now! And you will see it's the best Universal Horror there is, do you hear? Soon, the world will realize its greatness, its genre-bending mix of horror, comedy, science fiction, melodrama, romance, and crime movie. They'll see! They will all see, the fools! HAHA [laughs maniacally]!!!!
Carl Laemmle/Universal Pictures had no idea what a treasure they had in director James Whale (the…
FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY: A BOND-A-THON
Bond, James Bond: The Official Letterboxd Ranking
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“Not based on a true story...”
“Be a good girl and put her on automatic. We could do with a couple of glasses.”
Well I don't know if I'm feeling sad over waving goodbye to the best James Bond, yes Sir Roger Moore IS James Bond in my estimation, or if this Bond-A-THON is weakening my critical eye but I had a ball with A View…
