Bonnie and Clyde

 Yes I can understand why this has been forgotten somewhat. It looks great, Faye Dunaway is one of the most beautiful women who ever lived. Warren Beaty is dapper and dashing-but whose idea was to make the lead impotent?

It feels like the Dukes of Hazard, more of that later. It is two people driving about dodging the law.   I think the film doesn't do enough with it's historical setting you see a white farmer, and his black labourer taking one long look at a farm before being evicted. You would'nt know that prohibtion has happened. Though that ends off screen. We see the moving pictures, and an armoured car...

Gene Hackman and Gene Wilder have roles. Wilder stars as a passer by caught up in the gang's misadventures, Hackman is the older brother of Clyde. Which I wondered about, would Hackman really take orders from Beatty in real life

Miri, Michael Pollard stars- hey who remembers Hannibal Brooks, but that is it. The film is well shot, the cast are strong but fundamentally this didn't grab me 

Oh they drink Dr Pepper nice!

Galaxy Quest

 I am so sorry I missed this in cinemas. It would have hit much harder in the 1990s. It even seems to be referencing Deep Space Nine, with the action in the mine field. 

Tim Allen plays Bill Shatner- play Kirk in the wilderness years. Going to conventions, hogging the spotlight

Alan Rickman is good as the Mr Spock figure, who will only be remembered for a few cod lines of dialog 

The Aliens are played completely straight, and voiced brilliantly. This really helps sell it

This must be one of the first films to note an online space. The plot is resolved by having teen Quest fans, describe the layout of the ship. They are comunicating via chat rooms or mailing lists - I wonder if they would be allowed to gather a lot of fireworks so quickly

A Chump in Oxford

 So, I noticed Peter Cushing is in the credits here. As an Oxford University Student

This is a Laurel and Hardy film- I decided to give a whirl. It is brief, just under an hour, and is a series of sketches linked together. There is a lot of slapstick. Indeed, a chump feels like an episode of scooby do, there is a chase scene with a ghost in a garden. There are fake hands scenes. People talk with the antagonist behind them.. oh and someone loses his memory 

Stan Laurel really did have range. We see him play two characters, Lord Paddington and Stan

Oliver Hardy breaks the 4th wall, complaining about a double chin remark. As the titles break

Oliver is a huge man, when he strikes Stan it must hurt 

The opening skit where Stan and Olly try to blag themselves as a job as a butler and a maid, is good. I can see why people loved this. I think reworked slightly this would still work today

Marty Supreme

 Well a Table Tennis movie... interesting 

Watching this I was reminded of my friend- the late Scott Palter. Who would have been the same age as Marty, and was raised in the same New York Jewish milleu. We meet the old Jewish gangster class, the policeman, and the up and coming money men. 

Isn't keeping ping pong balls in your house a terrible fire hazard.

I see Sandra Bernhardt stars in this film

G, Paltrow stars as Marty's older lover interest. I think she looks and aquits herself well

It is a great physically demanding perfomance by Timothy C. Grunting and falling, and sweating across the set. He is manipulating every other person he meets. Telling lies, upon lies I liked how he turned his young love interest into a mini Marty 

I felt that it got the period detail of London well. I can't speak about 1960s Japan. It felt real. I did wonder if Japan here was a short hand for China. 

I liked the theme music.. Forever Young, Every Body Wants to Rule the World. 

But that Vampire line. What happened there? It did pique my interest..I have to admit. Was Marty having a pyschotic break? Was it all a fever dream?

The Baby was beautiful 

My daughters birthday party

 

Rock Around the Clock!

 I can see why the ``Powers That Be'' where scared of this film. 

There is a 10 minute scene of teenagers just dismissing and insulting their elders.  It is not a clergyman or a Headmaster. It is a musican and a manager. There is a scene where a debutante threatens her principal- while dancing at the prom. She tells the teacher, she will sour her father on leaving a library as a gift to the school. The film is a lot more sexualised than I thought. There is a scene with the female lead in her bathing suit and it comments on this. You also you could argue that the main contest of this film is between the romantic lead, and a Girl Boss music excecutive. Who had left the manager at the altar

It makes the point that dancing is an important to enjoying Rock and Roll, as listening. This is really a series of music videos. The bands come one, do there bit. There is some rock and roll dancing. The plot moves on. 

The Platters, really knock it out of the park. I didn't know they were in this, and Only you-hits like Kennedy is running for the White House

Both Haley and the Platters look middle aged. The Film stresses their humble orgins-they were farmers who gigged in the evening, sometimes for payment in kind 

The hero of the story, marries the dancing girl he discovered. Quite an age gap ! 

I am pleased I saw it. I understand why it was a big deal. Cinema birthed the radio star?

The Naked Gun 33.3 The Final Insult

 Yes this is very 1990s. There is a mention of Dr Kervorkian. We see Shannen Doherty, on screen. Jurassic park is still the biggest box office bonazana. Indeed OJ will murder his wife before this film hits blockbuster. Oh and you know what is really 1990s- 70s nostalgia. We see OJ wearing an Afro.

OJ does the American version of the goalkeeper catching the baby jokes

Phil Donnahue looking like Leslie Nielsen is a plot point. As I said 1990s. 

So it felt more dated than the orginal Naked Gun movie. In fact having the denouement- at the Oscars adds to this. The Oscars used to be exciting. I don't know if I am older or crankier but, I remember people used to stay up late for the Oscars

I was surprised by the Cameo's Olvia Dukakis, and James Earl Jones. Oh and Pia Zadora-who according to legend played Anne Frank on Broadway, and was so bad. That someone in the audience shouted ``She's in the attic''

Anna Nicole Smith. I was interested in getting a sense of her. I remember an old gf, used to compare herself to her.  She looks buxom and pretty, but the film doesn't do much with her

Marc Alamio- Gul Dukat plays a truck stop rapist. Who tries to force himself on Priscella Presley Priscella gets a sub plot based on wanting a baby-with Thelma and Louise overtones. It is as I said very very 1990s. Cheers was doing a similar storyline in 1992. Ally McBeal will do more of the same. 

That said because of the ages of Nielsen and Presley it feels more modern- everyone is middle aged now