I remember reading Stephen King’s novel for Misery, and getting caught up in the tension. The same happened the first time I watched Rob Reiner’s film version featuring an adapted script by William Goldman and featured James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Lauren Bacall, and Frances Sternhagen. I hadn’t watched it since it first came…
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Throw Momma from the Train (1987) – Danny DeVito
Danny DeVito seems to have a very dark, and very enjoyable sense of humour. He pairs up with Billy Crystal and Anne Ramsey, along with Star Trek’s Kate Mulgrew, Rob Reiner Branford Marsalis, Kim Greist, and Olivia Brown to deliver a fantastically dark comedy that seems to deliver a nice nod to Hitchcock and also…
Sleepless in Seattle (1993) – 4K Review
Is there a better movie about love in the movies than Sleepless in Seattle? It’s not a movie about falling in love in the real world but falling in love in the movies and with movies. It’s also part of Sony Pictures’ release of their Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection, Volume 4. Tom Hanks…
Batman (1967) – The Zodiac Crimes, The Joker’s Hard Times, and The Penguin Declines
Stephen Kandel and Stanford Sherman deliver the teleplay from a story by Kandel for the series’ first three parter. Star Adam West says the three partners that were made were intended to be released theatrically overseas though this never happened. The first episode, The Zodiac Crimes, first aired on 11 January, 1967. The Joker (Cesar…
A Few Good Men (1992) – Rob Reiner
Aaron Sorkin pens the screenplay for Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men from his stageplay of the same name, and like the best of Sorkin’s writing, the film draws an amazing wealth of talent. When a Marine dies during an off the book disciplinary action while serving at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the JAG corp…
When Harry Met Sally (1989) – Rob Reiner
The first recommendation from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film following my screening of Pretty Woman for the romance and melodrama chapter of the book is one of my favourite rom-coms of all time. And personally I think it should have been the main title over Pretty Woman. Set over the course of…
The Princess Bride (1987) – Rob Reiner
The next recommendation from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book following my screening of The Fellowship of the Ring is this fantastic adaptation by William Goldman of his highly enjoyable novel, The Princess Bride. Director Rob Reiner gathers a fantastic cast that includes Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, Mandy…
Trailer Tracks: The Princess Bride (1987) – Rob Reiner
The dialogue, the story, the music, there isn’t anything I don’t love about this movie… Have fun storming the castle!
Trailer Tracks: A Few Good Men (1992) – Rob Reiner
Based on the play by Aaron Sorkin, the starpower alone in this film makes it worth watching (Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Bacon, Xander Berkley, James Marshall and J.T. Walsh)! Mix that in with some fantastic dialogue, a great story, and you have a film that I love to…
The Rockford Files (1976) – The No-Cut Contract & A Portrait of Elizabeth
This week private investigator Jim Rockford (James Garner) is in trouble again. The first episode, written by Cannell, himself is a lot of fun. It originally aired 16 January, 1976, and features Wayne Tippit, back as Agent Shore, Becker (Joe Santos), Angel (Stuart Margolin) and Beth (Gretchen Corbett). The phone gag is all in Spanish,…
The Mind Reels 