Retrospectives

It might be sixty years old, but The Hidden Fortress is fun, comedy, and adventure rolled up in an epic package. It is just as good today as when it was first made. A Japanese …

A couple of years ago, as my brothers and I settled in for movie night, we realized we didn’t have an inkling of what to watch. “Let’s settle on genre first,” my brother said, “Comedy? …

Darren Aronofsky is one of the great trickster gods of the modern cinema world. His modus operandi as a filmmaker is to shock, to provoke thought, to search the human psyche, to obliterate his audience’s expectations …

Call me a grinch, but I have to say it: After 50 years, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is not as great as some might have you believe. The story revolves around an inventor, his two children, …

Sliding Doors, though released 20 years ago, is probably a movie that looks familiar to you. It wouldn’t have been a movie you went to see in the cinema, or decided to watch with any …

Filth was released way back in 2013 but after completing my article on the top 10 James McAvoy performances, I decided to re-watch it. If you’ve read any of my posts before, you’ll know I …

Every genre has at least one defining film that comes to mind when thinking of or discussing the genre. When one thinks of Holocaust films, there one film that automatically comes to mind: Schindler’s List. …

About 4 years ago, when I was idly browsing through Facebook, I saw the news about Robin Williams‘ passing. People were posting quotes and images from movies that he had been in, showing us the …

In 1948 The Red Shoes was released, and after seventy years this story about passion that warps into obsession still resonates. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known as the Archers, directed The Red Shoes, using a Hans …

When I was a kid, I remember watching A Bug’s Life (1998) over and over and over. I had quite the interest in bugs. I used to catch grasshoppers and potato bugs (pill bugs or roly polys …

When I saw The Remains of the Day on the list of Movie Anniversaries to pen for MovieBabble, I felt it to be a personal duty of mine to choose it and write about it. …

They Live was released in 1988 with John Carpenter using the film to satirize the so-called “Reaganomics” of 80s America. It deals with a drifter who finds sunglasses that show the world is controlled by aliens. They …

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes is eighty years old this month. It has become dated in some respects since 1938, but it hardly matters, because it’s still a lot of fun. The plot revolves around …