Saturday, June 14, 2025

Classic Reviews

Classic Review: Reckoning with Elephant, 18 Years Later

Released in 2003, “Elephant” covers a fictionalized version of the Columbine school massacre through the perspectives of ten students who witness two of their classmates commit a school shooting. The title of...

Classic Review: ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ Is A Visual Feast

Director: Sergio Leone Writers: Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci and Sergio Leone Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards and Charles Bronson Synopsis: Frank (Henry Fonda) decides that he wants to strike it rich by building...

Classic Review: ‘Rio Bravo’ Is Howard Hawks’s Typically Unpretentious Western

Director: Howard Hawks Writers: Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan Synopsis: When gunslinger Joe Burdette (Claude Akins) kills a man in a saloon, Sheriff...

Classic Palme D’Or Review: ‘The Mission’ Pits Faith Against an Empire (1986)

For generations, men and women have traveled the globe to explore their faith and spread their ideologies. Battles in the name of God take many forms. An introspective exploration of the soul...

Classic Film Review: ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’ Is Still Depressingly Relevant

Director: John Ford Writers: James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck Stars: John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, John Carradine, and Andy Devine Synopsis: Liberty Valance, a dangerous cowboy, threatens the residents of a...

Classic Review: ‘A.I.: Artificial Intelligence’ 20 years later

I think we can all agree that A.I.: Artificial Intelligence is a divisive film. Some people love it, and some people love to hate it. In my years of hearing reactions to...

Classic Movie Review: The Nostalgic Charm of ‘Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House’

Advertising executive Jim Blandings (Cary Grant) is tired of cramped Manhattan living so he and his wife Muriel (Myrna Loy) buy a historic Connecticut property in the 1948 comedy Mr. Blandings Builds...

Classic Film Review: ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Left a Horrible Stain on Cinema History

The Birth of a Nation (1915) is a film that actively promotes a racist ideology that allowed whites to convince themselves that they were ‘disenfranchised’ victims of African-Americans. Its enormous popularity with...

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