Tuesday, April 29, 2025

They'd forget their precious gold if they had to dig their own


GOLD

1974
Directed by Peter Hunt
Written by Wilbur Smith and Stanley Price (based on the novel Gold Mine by Wilbur Smith)

Spoilers: moderate

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Humphrey Bogart in Argument!... or Disagreement!... or Quarrel!... or Dispute!... or...


CONFLICT

1945
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Written by Robert Siodmak, Alfred Neumann, Arthur T. Horman, and Dwight Taylor

Spoilers: moderate (or a touch more than moderate, but, anyway, not high)

Saturday, April 19, 2025

Walt Disney, part LXV: Keep moving forward


MEET THE ROBINSONS

2007
Directed by Stephen Anderson
Written by more people than I'd prefer to list (based on the book A Day With Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce)

Spoilers: high

Monday, April 14, 2025

When will you make an end?


THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

1965
Directed by Carol Reed
Written by Philip Dunne (based on the novel by Irving Stone)

Spoilers: Michelangelo did, in fact, finish the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

I know you've seen enough of the Falls for one trip, but don't cross us off your list


NIAGARA

1953
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Written by Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, and Richard Breen

Spoilers: moderate (maybe a teensy bit high, but one generally knows how these things go, right?)

Monday, April 7, 2025

No whammies


THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA

2025
Directed by Samir Oliveros
Written by Amanda Freeman, Maggie Briggs, and Samir Oliveros

Spoilers: moderate (though, in a grander sense, N/A)

Friday, April 4, 2025

Cardboard Science: You're a lovely girl, but lovely girls just don't run around worrying about non-existent sea monsters


MONSTER FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR

1954
Directed by Wyott Ordung
Written by Roger Corman and Bill Danch

Spoilers: moderate

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Walt Disney, part LXIV: At least I saw the wild before it disappeared


THE WILD

2006
Directed by Steve "Spaz" Williams
Written by Mark Gibson, Philip Halprin, Ed Decter, and John J. Strauss

Spoilers: moderate