Category: Classics & Hitchcock

Few among you are likely to watch a Japanese film that doesn’t feature either copious amounts of kung fu or a large, fire-breathing lizard, but…

Directed by David Lean. Screenplay by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan &Ronald Neame Based on the 1861 novel by Charles Dickens. With: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles (who we’ll see ten years later as a kidnapper in The Man Who Knew Too Much). Here, he is kindly blacksmith, Joe), Francis L. Sullivan as Mr. Jaggers…

Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass just might be the first Hollywood film to argue that virginity is the surest ticket to emotional instability

Wayne huffs and puffs about the Irish countryside, piss-drunk and full of rage over not being able to throw Maureen O’Hara down on the bed and have his swaggering way with her.

As the take-no-prisoners Margot, Jean Gillie is amazing to watch… tougher than Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Greer, Joan Bennett or even snarling Ann Savage in Detour.

Bam Margera wept.

‘Military justice’ about says it all.