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Month: August 2023

The Gumball Rally: Bringing Back Memories of the Drive-in Movie.

The Gumball Rally: Bringing Back Memories of the Drive-in Movie.

Released: 1976 Dir.: Chuck Bail First viewing in over 40 years. Every decade or so, a movie comes along with the power to inspire, motivate, even change the course of one’s life. The Gumball Rally is not one of those films, it is, however, what most movies should be: good, escapist entertainment. The Gumball Rally also brought back some fun memories. Growing up in the 1970s we were lucky enough to have a drive-in theatre in our neighborhood, I could…

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Tunes of Glory: Mills. Guinness. An Epic Clash of Wills.

Tunes of Glory: Mills. Guinness. An Epic Clash of Wills.

Released: 1960 Dir.: Ronald Neame Acting Col. Jock Sinclair (Alec Guinness) is in command of a Scottish Highland Regiment in the peacetime years following the Second World War. He took command when the regiments Colonel was killed during the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa and saw the battalion through to the wars end and beyond. Jock is a hard drinking career man who worked his way up the ranks the hard way, beginning as a regimental piper. If…

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Ski Troop Attack: A Bad Movie that Challenges Depression.

Ski Troop Attack: A Bad Movie that Challenges Depression.

Released: 1960 Dir.: Roger Corman When you suffer from depression, you endure bouts, sometimes severe, of not really caring much about anything. Life has no purpose, you keep telling yourself you don’t matter, nobody seems to care about you, your world has become breath-takingly small, you feel you have nothing important to contribute, over-whelming hopelessness, and you can’t make decisions, even what movie to watch. Something as trivial as finding a movie to watch is what your life has been…

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Night and the City: Hollywood Noir Meets British Noir.

Night and the City: Hollywood Noir Meets British Noir.

Released: 1950 Dir.: Jules Dassin First time viewing reaction. When you mix Hollywood Noir with British Noir, add Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, and a healthy dose of Herbert Lom, you get Night and the City. A gripping non-stop story of ambition exceeding one’s grasp. Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a hustler on the loose in London. He works hard and talks fast for what amounts to peanuts, but there is big money to be had in London and that comes…

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