Monday, February 28, 2022

What a disaster: The lateral inferno


CITY ON FIRE

1979
Directed by Alvin Rakoff
Written by Jack Hill, Dave Lewis, and Céline La Frenière

Spoilers: moderate

Friday, February 25, 2022

Sunday, February 20, 2022

What a disaster: Can't you see the morning after?


BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

1979
Directed by Irwin Allen
Written by Nelson Gidding (based on the novel by Paul Gallico)

Spoilers: moderate

Saturday, February 19, 2022

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Dead again


DEATH ON THE NILE

2022
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Written by Michael Green (based on the novel by Agatha Christie)

Spoilers: moderate

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Until I find who did this, my heart will have no feelings and no mercy


THE BLAZING SUN
aka Sira Fi al-Wadi (Struggle In the Valley); aka The Blazing Sky

1954
Directed by Youssef Chahine
Written by Ali El Zorkani and Helmy Halim

Spoilers: moderate

Monday, February 14, 2022

The boy next door


MARRY ME

2022
Directed by Kat Coiro
Written by John Rogers, Tami Sagher, and Harper Dill (based on the comic by Bobby Crosby)

Spoilers: moderate

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Donenesque


ARABESQUE

1966
Directed by Stanley Donen
Written by Julian Mitchell, Stanley Price, and Peter Stone (based on the novel The Cipher by Gordon Cotler)

Spoilers: mild

Monday, February 7, 2022

Channing Tatum's least favorite movie of all time


GAMBIT

1966
Directed by Ronald Neame
Written by Sidney Carroll, Jack Davies, Alvin Sargent, and Shirley MacLaine

Spoilers: well, I'm going to discuss the beginning whether they like it or not, soapparently"catastrophically severe"

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Walt Disney, part XLII: Come into the light


BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

1991
Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
Written by so, so many people, so let's say "Linda Woolverton and Howard Ashman"

Spoilers: get real