Monday, May 30, 2022

Pop quiz, hotshots


ONLY THE BRAVE

2017
Directed by Joseph Kosinki
Written by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer (based on the GQ article "No Exit" by Sean Flynn)

Spoilers: moderate

Sunday, May 29, 2022

I feel the need


TOP GUN

1986
Directed by Tony Scott
Written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr.

Spoilers: high, I guess

Friday, May 27, 2022

Bela Lugosi is dead


THE HUNGER

1983
Directed by Tony Scott
Written by Ivan Davis and Michael Thomas (based on the novel by Whitley Strieber)

Spoilers: moderate perhaps tipping over into high

Monday, May 23, 2022

Repeated horrifying personal tragedy finds Andy Hardy


THE HUMAN COMEDY

1943
Directed by Clarence Brown
Written by Howard Estabrook, Herman J. Mankiewicz, and William Saroyan

Spoilers: moderate

Sunday, May 15, 2022

Rio, Rififi-style


GRAND SLAM
aka Ad ogna costi (At Any Cost)

1967
Directed by Giuliano Montaldo
Written by Mino Roli

Spoilers: moderate

Saturday, May 14, 2022

You're not fast enough for me


THE QUICK AND THE DEAD

1995
Directed by Sam Raimi
Written by Simon Moore

Spoilers: moderate

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Dreams in the witch house


DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

2022
Directed by Sam Raimi
Written by Michael Waldron

Spoilers: moderate

Sunday, May 8, 2022

To conscript a thief


THEY MET IN BOMBAY

1941
Directed by Clarence Brown
Written by John H. Kafka and Edwin Justus Mayer

Spoilers: moderate

Friday, May 6, 2022

Mr. and Mrs. Smith


COME LIVE WITH ME

1941
Directed by Clarence Brown
Written by Virginia Van Upp and Patterson McNutt

Spoilers: moderate

Sunday, May 1, 2022

At the Gates of Hel, I will meet you


THE NORTHMAN

2022
Directed by Robert Eggers
Written by Sjón and Robert Eggers

Spoilers: moderate