Up in the Air (2009)
“Up in the Air” was directed by Jason Reitman. Reitman also directed two other films I liked “Juno” and “Thank You for Smoking”. Reitman is a second generation director, his father directed “Ghostbusters”. Up in the Air is about a corporate down-sizer Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), who travels from place to place firing people. In [...]
Read moreAirplane! (1980)
Airplane! was directed and written by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker. This group was collectively known as ZAZ, they wrote Airplane! while performing together for the Kentucky Fried Theatre. ZAZ starting with Airplane! created the parody genre of films, films like Naked Gun, Scary Movie and Police Story. Airplane! is a spoof of [...]
Read moreAll That Heaven Allows (1955)
All That Heaven Allows was directed Douglas Sirk. Sirk is one of the best at making melodramas, his own life also had lots of drama, before WWII. Sirk’s first wife was a follower of Hitler, she denounced Sirk because of his relationship with his second wife (she was a Jew). This caused him to leave [...]
Read moreTroy (2004)
The battle and story here lends itself for a great movie to be made. Unfortunately, this movie somewhat misses the mark. I liked the movie enough, I just feel like it could have been so much more. In between the action, when we should be growing with our characters, there was just a lot of [...]
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