Kinemalogue
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than none
Thursday, January 28, 2021
I thought that you two were related
ROYAL WEDDING
1951
Directed by Stanley Donen
Written by Alan Jay Lerner
Spoiler alert: high, I guess, but also effectively inapplicable
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Friday, January 22, 2021
Walt Disney, part XXXVIII: What's a fire, and why does it—what's the word—burn?
THE LITTLE MERMAID
1989
Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker
Written by Ron Clements, John Musker, and Howard Ashman (based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen)
Spoiler alert: well, she doesn't become a freaking air spirit
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Hannibal ante portas
JUPITER'S DARLING
1955
Directed by George Sidney
Written by Dorothy Kingsley (based on the play
The Road to Rome
by Robert Sherwood)
Spoiler alert: unless you're somehow surprised to learn that Rome won the Second Punic War, actually quite mild
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021
I love you, let us be friends
ATHENA
1954
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Written by Leo Pogostin, Charles Walters, Esther Williams, William Ludwig, and Leonard Spigelgass
Spoiler alert: moderate
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Monday, January 11, 2021
All I ask is just one more chance—just one more dance?
LOVELY TO LOOK AT
1952
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy and Vincente Minelli
Written by George Wells and Harry Ruby (based on the musical play
Roberta
by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach based on the novel
Gowns by Roberta
by Alice Deur Miller)
Spoiler alert: moderate
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Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Walt Disney, part XXXVII: It could be a stream of dog pee, and it would look like a river to us
HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS
1989
Directed by Joe Johnston
Written by Stuart Gordon, Brian Yuzna, Ed Naha, and Tom Schulman
Spoiler alert: moderate
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