A limpet, as you probably know, is an undersea mollusk, a small, gilled snail that clings to the rocks in fresh or salt water. It’s an apt name for the main character in 1963’s “The Incredible Mr. Limpet,” a timid…
You like old movies? You like mysteries? You like comedy? You like British football? You get it all in this 1939 British comedy-mystery set in the milieu of British football. Sure, it’s dated and not a little corny, but it’s…
While a lot of fans consider “Full Metal Jacket” one of the best war movies of all time, if not the best, I have never been fully able to reconcile the more routine action of its second half with the brilliant intensity…
By the time Gainsborough Pictures released “Fanny by Gaslight” to most of the world in 1945, audiences had already seen at least two movies with “Fanny” in the title and several more with “Gaslight” in them, including the still-popular 1944…
Odds are, if you enjoy British movies (or movies in general, for that matter), you’ll recognize the name Carol Reed. He’s the director who gave us “The Third Man,” “Odd Man Out,” “Our Man in Havana,” “The Agony and the…
Peter Sellers began his career on stage in the late Forties, moved to radio, then to small roles in motion pictures, ever bigger roles in smaller films, and finally full-fledged stardom by the early 1960’s in big Hollywood films. We…
If you grew up anywhere in the civilized world, you probably played Clue (or Cluedo outside of North America) at some point in your life; maybe you still play it. Along with things like Monopoly, Scrabble, Parcheesi, chess, and checkers,…
“Some of these tank trips can get pretty creepy.” –Bob Balaban If you can forget for a minute all of its pretentious ideas and scientific nonsense, 1980’s “Altered States” provides some dazzling visual delights, which is really what the whole…
For Sean Connery there was, indeed, life after Bond. For most Bond actors this has not always been the case, Daniel Craig possibly excepted. But for Connery, he went on to do any number of notable films like “The Wind…
Some movies seem perfectly suited for high-definition Blu-ray treatment. Take, for instance, “Spawn.” This 1997 adaptation of Todd McFarlane’s popular comic-book character may have a befuddled story line and a less-than-riveting hero, but its visuals are often strikingly beautiful in…