Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam was directed and produced by Bill Couturie. Couturie is best known for the Academy Award-winning documentary “Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt”. Dear America was a multi-Emmy Award winner.
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
The movie uses real letters written by US soldiers for it’s narration. The film is archive footage, together they convey the personal experiences of the men and women that served in Vietnam.
This movie grabbed me and didn’t let me go, at the end there were tears filling my eyes.
“I would rather to have had you for twenty-one years and all the pain that goes with losing you, than never to have had you at all. -Mom “
This is one of those movies that I think everybody should see–08/10
San Quentin (1937)
San Quentin (1937) was directed by Lloyd Bacon. Bacon directed numerous movie’s for Warner Brothers in the 1930s and 40s.
San Quentin (1937)
Captain Stephen’ Jameson (Pat O’Brien) regular army is sent to San Quentin to become the top prison guard. He so good at handling men the warden feels he can turn the prison around. He falls for May (Ann Sheridan) a singer in a night club. Her brother, Red (Humphrey Bogart) is no good and gets sent to San Quentin. The three of them form a triangle filled with strife, mostly started by bad boy Red.
Formulaic prison movie, with Bogart (not one of best) moving the plot.
“It’s dynamite”
Life in the big house——03/10
Lost Continent (1951)
Lost Continent (1951) was directed by Saml Neufeld. Neufeld was a renowned “B” movie directer that did over 250 movies.
Lost Continent (1951)
Major Joe Nolan (CesarRomero) leads a search in the South Pacific for a lost atomic rocket that went off course. As they fly over an island a strange force causes their plane to crash. Native girl points then to a plateau that she saw the rocket/ fire bird fly into. The plateau is the dwelling place of their gods and none that go on it returns. So off the party goes up the plateau to find the rocket.
50′s comic book like story with several good actors, but a fair/corny script. The special effects are bad even for this time. On the plus side I didn’t fall asleep and I got just what I expected in watching it.
“We are under orders not to break radio silence until we find the rocket. ”
Weak 50′s sci-fi movie, but if you like them, you like then—-03/10
Foolproof (2003)
Foolproof (2003) was directed by Williams Phillips a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
Foolproof (2003)
Kevin (Ryan Reynolds), Sam (Kristin Booth) and Rob (Joris Jarsky) for fun do theoretical heists. One of their plans is taken and used by a gangster. After the real heist, the gangster blackmails them into pulling off a real heist.
Not top notch action adventure, but passable. The three stars kept making me think of “Two Guy’s and a Girl”, they have many of the same interactions between each other.
Access Denied! Access Denied!
Tight B movie, but nothing to make it really stand out–03