Disc Dispatch: FROGS (1972)
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport and Editor in Chief
Frogs is one of those rare jewels that I believe I enjoyed more than I should have.
THE BIG CLOCK mixes "wrong man" thrills with noir nihilism
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
The Big Clock, from 1948, opens as a quintessential noir. There is a city skyline seen at night, with black smoke drifting through the frame as the camera pans towards a mid-Century office building.
Pre-Code Decode, Romance Week Edition: Rosalie on Romance
by Rosalie Kicks, Editor in Chief and Old Sport
For me, the depiction of females in Pre-Code pictures is something to behold. It makes me imagine the force that women would have been if they were shown examples such as the ones in these films. There was more to life than love, baby carriages, and dinners on the table at five.
Read MoreI Bid You Welcome to 24 Hours in My Cinematic Crypt
by Batzina Belfry (aka Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport)
I bid you welcome creepies, ghoulies, goblins and spookies to The Cinematic Crypt for a twenty-four hour watch-a-long.
A Place by the Sea
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport
I know I’m going to haunt someday.
Being a ghost is in my DNA. Given the opportunity to have a ghost life, I have yet to discover the downside. I was raised by wolves. Therefore, I had to rely on movies to teach me about the facts of life. The movies have only helped prove: A ghost life is a good life. So when it comes to afterlife planning, I have found no better tutelage than my film library. Take, for example, Beyyyla Lugosi as Dracula. If it wasn’t for him, I would never know of the various bunks that are available when it is time to go sleepies. One needs to make sure their coffin is velvet lined for comfort. May even be a good idea to try it out beforehand as a bed. Take it for a test spin...before it is too late.
Read MoreThe Lost Weekend
Directed by Billy Wilder (1945)
by Shane Collis
"At night this stuff's a drink, in the morning it's medicine." - Don Birnam
From the first strains of Miklós Rózsa's score, it is obvious that the film we are about to see is no comedy. Directed by the great Billy Wilder, following his archetypal film noir masterpiece Double Indemnity. Based on the novel by Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend offers little in the way of comic relief as it charts a debauched four days in the life of aspiring New York writer Don Birnam (a superb Ray Milland).
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