A Place for Great Cinema
Massive Spoilers for the three people on the planet who haven`t seen it. “Get busy living, or get busy dying.” It’s fitting that The Shawshank Redemption was made for Warner … Continue reading The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Frank Darabont (Niall McArdle)
This essay is copyright of Darrell Ron Tuffs, please use references if using any of this information in your own work. Until recent years, cinema had always held a large … Continue reading Is Television Inferior to Cinema Artistically? by Darrell Ron Tuffs
Short films can often become overlooked while searching for hidden cinematic gems from the past. This is particularly true of the 1969 Douglas Hickox short film, Les Bicyclettes de Belsize. … Continue reading Les Bicyclettes de Belsize (1969) Douglas Hickox (Darrell Ron Tuffs)
Originally posted to the excellence site Retro In The 90s After reflecting on the Joe Bob’s Drive-In Theatre post, perhaps the most important function of the horror movie host was … Continue reading Ed Wood (1994) – Tim Burton (Gunnar von Cowtown)
Originally Posted at betweenframes.net. Come check out other reviews written by Mikhail Karadimov Panic Room has long been derided as one of Fincher’s lesser films. Maybe people had trouble accepting … Continue reading Panic Room (2002) – David Fincher (Mikhail Karadimov)
Image this scene, it is ordered that you are going to be sent off to an unknown desert island. Before you go, you are told that you can take with … Continue reading Desert Island Directors
Now and then, we all need an inspirational reminder of how wonderful cinema can be at its very best. With his 2011, 15-hour essay film The Story of Film, Mark … Continue reading A Story of Children and Film (2013) – Mark Cousins (Darrell Ron Tuffs)
Cyd Charisse. Marilyn Monroe. Jane Russell. Donna Reed. Deborah Kerr. Hollywod had an array of beautiful women on-screen in 1953, each in their own way wordly and sexy. But it … Continue reading Roman Holiday (1953) – William Wyler (Niall McArdle)
Originally Posted at betweenframes.net. Come check out other reviews written by Mikhail Karadimov. It’s odd to see the late-great James Gandolfini’s large, meaty hands—so endearingly referred to as “paddles” by … Continue reading Enough Said (2013) – Nicole Holofcenter (Mikhail Karadimov)
Originally Posted at betweenframes.net. Come check out other reviews written by Mikhail Karadimov. Trained in our scopes—beaded down on the bull’s-eye of our aim—are other people. Our judgments click and … Continue reading The Hunt (2012) – Thomas Vinterberg (Mikhail Karadimov)
Synposis: Thousands of years in the future, astronauts from earth crash-land on a planet ruled by apes. I recently met somebody who has never seen Planet of the Apes, and … Continue reading Planet of the Apes – Franklin. J. Shaffner (1968) (Niall McArdle)
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