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Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Friday, September 05, 2025

The Grant Mystique: Dream Wife (1953)

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Some years ago I complained that once World War II ended, Cary Grant was content to settle into inane sitcoms rather than the kind of spar...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Stars in B-Movies Blogathon 2025: Mary Woronov and Paul Bartel and Eating Raoul

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"I knew what was art and what was shit. But sometimes the shit was more interesting." -- Mary Woronov The first film I ever ...
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Sunday, April 28, 2024

A Retro Prometheus

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Lisa Frankenstein (2024, directed by Zelda Williams). I'm sure the name came first. Surely screenwriter Diablo Cody thought of the pl...
Friday, February 09, 2024

The Grant Mystique: Thirty-Day Princess (1934)

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Thirty-Day Princess (1934, directed by Marion Gering) finds Cary Grant fading into the scenery a bit. This isn't the only case of thi...
Friday, September 01, 2023

The Grant Mystique: Operation Petticoat (1959)

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If you were to name Cary Grant's most influential movies, you might name films like North by Northwest, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Fri...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

Carrying on the Family Business

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, directed by Jason Reitman) is two thirds of a good movie. That two thirds of a film are better than any ...
Monday, January 16, 2017

The Grant Mystique: This is the Night

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There are more films starring Cary Grant in my movie collection than films starring any other actor. No small feat given how many films I h...
Saturday, February 20, 2016

Render Unto Caesar

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I don't remember the last time I had such a keen anticipation for a movie like the one  I had for the Coen brothers' latest film, H...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Race Relations

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Dear White People (2014, directed by Justin Simien) is a portrait of entitlement and privilege as satire and farce. That it's set at a...
Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Welcome to the Dollhouse

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I was having a conversation with a friend of mine after seeing Wes Anderson's new film, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), when he menti...
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Friday, January 03, 2014

A Wolf in the Fold

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I'm sure I'm not alone in this, but I have a short list of filmmakers whose films I try to see at the first opportunity, often the ...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

Midwestern Gothic

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"Hell, I even thought I was dead 'til I found out it was just that I was in Nebraska."--Little Bill Daggett, Unforgiven I do...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Grave Men

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It's appropriate that Burke and Hare (2010), John Landis's long-delayed return to feature filmmaking should bear the name of Ealin...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

The Family That Plays Together...

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Making a "one from column A" movie is a lot like improvisational cooking: you throw flavors into the mix in the hopes that they...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Haves and Have-Nots

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At the end of Woody Allen's new film, Blue Jasmine (2013), my moviegoing companion turned to me and said: "Wow. That was totally ...
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Thursday, September 05, 2013

Vocal Opposition

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Some years ago, I saw a performance art piece by genderqueer theorist Kate Bornstein in which she recounted her experience with vocal thera...
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Sunday, September 01, 2013

From A to B

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I've owned a copy of Stage Door (1937, directed by Gregory La Cava) for years. I have it as part of the old Warner Brothers Classic C...
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Monday, August 26, 2013

Pub Crawl

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I had a pretty good time at The World’s End (2013), the third film in Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s loosely connected “Cornetto” trilogy. ...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Aimless in New York

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Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig's Frances Ha (2013) is a portrait of post-college/pre-rest of your life anomie. Anyone who has drifted...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Love Among the Ruins

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Like all movie fans, I have holes in my knowledge. There are plenty of classic or critically acclaimed films that for one reason or another...