Released in October of 1967, Reflections in a Golden Eye arrived in American theaters at a time when the Hays code that governed what could and couldn’t be seen on the big screen was months from being abolished. Directed by…
[Portions of this appeared in a review of an earlier release of the film–RW] Wes Anderson is rarely accused of being boring or dull. The dollhouse aesthetic, hypersytilization, and droll humor are uniquely Anderson. His films often have an aura…
Adapted from a short story by Argentinian Marco Denevi, Secret Ceremony was a critical and commercial failure upon its release in 1968. An odd psychological thriller, Mia Farrow hot off her star turn in Rosemary’s Baby, plays Cenci a regressive…
Released in early 1970, TV icons Marlo Thomas (That Girl) and Alan Alda (M*A*S*H) star in Jenny, very much a film of its time. Thomas is Jenny, a shy, movie loving, small-town girl who moves to the city after she…
Force 10 from Navarone is a sequel, largely in name only, to The Guns of Navarone. Given that seventeen years had passed between films, Guy Hamilton in the director’s chair instead of J. Lee Thompson. Before the credits, the final…
Written by future director Joel Schumacher from a story by Howard Rosenman, and inspired by the history of The Supremes, Sparkle was a box office disappointment when it was released in 1976, but has since become a cult classic particularly…
Accompanied by special ‘for adults only’ notices when it opened in 1962, Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth had been cleaned up considerably for the big screen. Though much of the ugliness of the stage version has been excised by…
The Super Bowl in New Orleans is just a few days away. As the Superdome is readied for the big game, the film spends time with various characters. Mike Shelley (David Janssen) is the longtime general manager of the Cougars,…
Released by Warner Archive, the third volume of Popeye the Sailor: The 1940’s contains seventeen shorts from 1948-49. Produced by Famous Studios and originally disturbed by Paramount Pictures, by now Popeye had become respectable — less politically incorrect, though there…
Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial effort Richard Jewell is based on the true story of a man who was hailed a hero, only to become suspected of a crime nearly overnight. Based on a 1997 Vanity Fair story by Marie Brenner,…