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This movie was not expensive to produce and you can tell if you've watched a few other found footage movies like this. It does cover its narrative behind well as the contrivance of having cameras pre-cum throughout needs to be addressed at one point or another. This movie does so quite well. The main protagonist is relatable enough and her plight and subsequent motivation to find out what happened is a decent enough driving force to build tension. The off-screen action is of course almost akin to cheating but the on-camera stuff is good enough and there are some decent low-cost effects to driv…

This is decidedly not Stardust (2007). While there are similarities to the premise, this movie lacks any agency for its protagonist, which means that you do not feel connected to her in any reasonable way. She's merely brought along on this journey and she does nothing throughout the entire movie except ooh and aah at the things that occurs to her. Similarly, the male lead is fairly hapless and does not actually engage with what is going on other than to pull out rabbits (or caves, or precious art) out of hats. The bad guys, similarly, are essentially faceless and have no real capacity to carr…

I am not sure that the retrospective elements actually helped this gritty family drama, but the presence of Spencer Tracy adds the kind of gravitas to this film that he usually delivered - and that helps this to stand out from the crowd a little. He is the curmudgeonly rancher with four sons. Three, led by the disgruntled "Ben" (Richard Widmark) are the sons of his now deceased first wife; "Joe" (Robert Wagner) is the son of her successor and is clearly his favourite. It's the late 19th century and so his old style ways are being tested by industrialisation, and it's a problem with a polluting…

There is something disappointingly formulaic about this vehicle for Audie Murphy and though it's not a terrible film, it's really quite flat. His "Clint" has been away for a few years and as he returns home he gets embroiled in a plan to rob the town's bank. Though he used to be a gunman, he is determined to make a bit of a fresh start so he sneaks off into town to warn the folks of the impending raid. Not only are they sceptical - with good reason, but the town's sheriff "Scotty" (James Best) also puts him under arrest before they build themselves a barricade in the hope that they can thwart …

**Eroticism as an act of faith** Leila is a young woman whose life unfolds under the premise of absolute sexual freedom and casual, no-strings-attached encounters. She finds in promiscuity a form of validation and escape from the emotional instability she suffers due to her parents' impending divorce. During a party, her path crosses with David's, a young man who shares her own intensity and sexual aggression. What begins as a purely visceral and mutual physical attraction quickly escalates into a torrid and passionate relationship. However, as physical intimacy becomes a refuge and a f…

"Mama Rose" (Rosalind Russell) is a bit of a musical snob. She is determined that her two daughters are going to succeed her on the stage, but she draws the line at the bawdier elements of Burlesque. Her elder daughter "June" (Ann Jillian) duly obliges proving a Vaudeville success and then marrying. Younger daughter "Louise" (Natalie Wood) is much more of a free spirit and she is also less fussy about how she gets her name in lights, and so naturally her path leads to some consternation from her mother and with "Herbie" (Karl Malden) who seems omipresent as a support for a "Rose" who steadfast…

F. Scott Fitzgerald did run a bit to language with his writing and this all-too literal adaptation suffers a bit from a lack of pruning. Consequently, we have a great deal of dialogue and perhaps not enough passion from a cast who seem curiously disconnected from the story. That plot revolves around some gradually evolving marital dysfunction which peppered with some flashbacks introduces us to "Nicole" (Jennifer Jones) who is married to "Dick" (Jason Robards) who used to be the psychiatrist helping her with her dypsomania. The story now takes us on a roller-coaster ride of alcohol-fuelled neu…

It turns out that local cattleman "Baxter" (Michael Gambon) is not a fan of free-grazers who take their herds across the country snacking on the grass along the way. This proves troublesome for "Boss" (Robert Duvall) and his pals "Charley" (Kevin Costner), "Mose" (Abraham Benrubi) and the corn-green "Button" (Diego Luna). This enmity becomes clear to the travellers when "Mose" sets off into town to buy some victuals and doesn't come back. Suspicious, the two leave their youngster to guard the cows and set off in search of their friend. Arriving in town, they find "Mose" battered and bruised an…

OK, so this is a bit sentimental but it did appeal to me. The young "Juan" is a bit of a lonely child who befriends a cloud that is doing a bit of wandering of it's own. Swiftly they become playfully inseperable until his parents decide they are going to relocate. Try as it might, "La Nube" can't keep up with the aeroplane and so the pair become separated. "Juan" goes on to become a successful industrialist and is soon subsumed in his dreary adult world until one of his factories is built near his childhood home. He returns, scissors at the ready to cut the opening tape, when a drop of rain hi…

Where would we be without Bing and Christmas? Where might either be without the other? Well we might find out in this rather soporifically cheesy drama that sees him don the clerical lace as "Father Conroy". He is a decent sort of priest who is very concerned when one of his innocent parishioners - "Holly" (Debbie Reynolds) takes a job with entertainer "Tony" (Robert Wagner). Now this fella has a reputation as a bit of a rake and those who perform with him at his club are more famous for their scantily clad dance routines and saucy songs than for the kind of worthy stuff the father wants her t…