All posts tagged "1950s"
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Cate Marquis | January 20, 2023
LIVING – Review
Bill Nighy gives a striking performance as colorless taciturn bureaucrat whose his rigid, repetitive life is transformed by...
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Jim Batts | November 22, 2022
DEVOTION(2022) – Review
It’s important to keep in mind when sitting down to the big holiday meal in a day or...
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Cate Marquis | July 15, 2022
MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS – Review
Mid-century high fashion and an irresistibly charming Lesley Manville add sparkle to the sweet, light-as-air MRS HARRIS GOES...
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Jim Batts | March 3, 2022
LUCY AND DESI – Review
So here’s the perfect companion to one of the big feature film “docudramas” from the last weeks of...
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Jim Batts | December 8, 2021
BEING THE RICARDOS – Review
As awards season is now in full swing, just what subject is the source of the newest work...
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Jim Batts | June 4, 2020
SHIRLEY – Review
At this time of quarantine, self-isolation, and (in several major urban areas) imposed curfew, who’s ready for a...
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Cate Marquis | June 1, 2020
THE VAST OF NIGHT – Review
A 1950s black-and-white television in a living room typical of the era plays the intro to a “Twilight...
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Jim Batts | August 1, 2019
THE MOUNTAIN (2018) – Review
Time to take a detour from the big noisy summer blockbusters and take a trip with an actual...
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Cate Marquis | January 12, 2018
PHANTOM THREAD – Review
PHANTOM THREAD is a beautiful, seductive drama set in the rarefied world of high fashion in 1950s Britain....
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Jim Batts | October 22, 2015
LABYRINTH OF LIES – The Review
Screenplays have been populated by characters trying to move forward and escape their ugly past since the creation...
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Travis Keune | January 27, 2009
Poster and Trailer for ‘Alien Trespass’
Here’s the poster and trailer for the new sci-fi/comedy ‘Alien Trespass’ from producer/director R.W Goodwin (The X-Files series,...