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wn time take for instance mike nichols the birdcage made when the queer community served as little more than a demeaning punchline it itself shows how unwarranted such jokes are instead showing them in a more sympathetic light if anything the butt of the jokes courtesy of elaine may s script are the uptight conservatives whose myopic views are unfortunately still rampant today that said there are moments in the birdcage that very much date it the stereotypes are leaned into a bit too broadly at times granted this was a few years before will grace hit the airwaves but still however once the first impression has been scraped back there s more depth to the characters giving them the dignity they were denied the previous decade small steps but progress all the same as expected from a nichols production the birdcage gets some solid work from its roster of actors there s an irony in there being a film starring robin williams playing the ironic straight man where he gets overshadowed by gene hackman not long after his oscar win for unforgiven when it comes to laughs case in point the closing scene just goes to show that nichols was good at his job one doesn t become an egot winner from just showing up after all the birdcage may be a product of its time on occasion but it still treats its subjects better than other similar works of the era in the time since its release things have fluctuated between improving and declining for the queer community one thing however has remained consistent they aren t taking things lying down my rating posted by movienut14 at 9 51 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1990s director mike nichols movies reviews wednesday december 31 2025 film and book tally 2025 boy was this year garbage or what with politics going into the toilet big names dropping like flies and everything being on figurative and literal fire i think it s safe to say we re all glad to move on from 2025 anyway onto the tally read on posted by movienut14 at 12 26 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels year end tally saturday june 7 2025 mississippi burning there s a real ugliness in people a festering sickness in one s soul that emerges time and time again and it s shown its presence throughout history its effects lingering for decades after worse still it s something that never fully disappears alan parker s mississippi burning isn t just simmering in hatred it s full on marinated in it it s telling that non american directors are more than willing to expose america s hideousness it may have been a few decades after the film s setting but as the coming years would also show very little had changed frustratingly for a film about the civil rights movement mississippi burning doesn t put a lot of focus on the black characters preferring to spotlight the agents played by gene hackman and willem dafoe the film only gives the black characters any attention when they re about to be subjected to violence as they re being brutalized or as they re licking their figurative and literal wounds in other words they only exist to suffer were this made today that would absolutely not happen that aspect aside mississippi burning is captured stunningly by cinematographer peter biziou you can practically feel the mississippi heat through the screen the smell of the swamps it s little wonder that biziou was a regular for parker and that his work got him an oscar mississippi burning is very much not an easy watch then again what else would one expect from the man responsible for midnight express the previous decade to say things have changed since both the setting s time period and the film s release would be a colossal lie if anything we re repeating what had happened ad nauseam my rating posted by movienut14 at 12 05 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1980s director alan parker movies reviews thursday june 5 2025 fun with dick and jane the opening credits of ted kotcheff s fun with dick and jane shows how the titular couple grew up met and settled into the american dream a comfy life for sure and then dick george segal gets sacked from his job soon he and jane jane fonda struggle to both make ends meet and keep up appearances but desperate times call for very desperate measures dick comes up with committing robberies to keep food on the table jane gets involved as well and things seem to be going well but how long can they keep this up made during a time where everyone was feeling financial strain fun with dick and jane probably seemed absurd to certain audiences upon its release in hindsight however it paints a far more cynical picture once one reaches a particular standing in society others feel schadenfreude at seeing them fall from grace speaking of fun with dick and jane portrays its setting as a dog eat dog world you have to stoop to levels you d normally never stoop to your self respect takes a backseat as you try to survive and after a while you don t recognize your own reflection fun with dick and jane still holds up after nearly a half a century aside from a few jokes that aged like milk in the august afternoon sun you could remake this beat for beat just goes to show that the more things change the more things stay the same my rating posted by movienut14 at 11 09 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1970s movies reviews wednesday june 4 2025 the in laws comedy is a hard thing to get right what s funny in one decade could be seen as offensive in the next decade it s all a matter of making sure you hit your mark without any mistakes along the way so you could imagine the undertaking andrew bergman went through in writing arthur hiller s the in laws a few years after the success of blazing saddles he co wrote it he was tasked with writing the script for a picture that was to star peter falk and alan arkin it was initially going to be a sequel to freebie and the bean which had also starred arkin knowing the potential that could be mined from the two actors bergman took on the opportunity while a little slow in its build up the in laws goes out on all pistons running falk plays with his columbo persona seemingly not all there but very much is arkin meanwhile plays the straight man to falk beautifully it s a shame the two didn t work together more after this now hiller isn t the kind of director you d associate with this type of picture having made love story earlier in the decade but bear in mind that just three years earlier hiller made silver streak which starred gene wilder and richard pryor he may not have done comedy often during his career but hiller knew how to get the beats down the in laws may be one of the more underappreciated comedies of the last half century it takes someone who really knows what they re doing to get something like this right thankfully it s directed by written by and stars such people my rating 1 2 posted by movienut14 at 11 28 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1970s director arthur hiller movies reviews tuesday june 3 2025 trapeze carol reed is one of the names most synonymous with the film noir genre with other genres there always seemed to be something amiss most of the time it has to do with the picture being more about style than substance still some of the tricks reed learned from his noir pictures show up in these take for instance trapeze being one of his few films made in hollywood reed has more of a scale to work on than odd man out and the third man the previous decade but as was commonplace for titles of the time having more isn t always a good thing it tries to put in too much with a two hour runtime starring in trapeze are burt lancaster tony curtis and gina lollobrigida all of whom as the film s living eye candy of them lollobrigida and co star katy jurado has the more substantial role acting as the classic femme fatale in some scenes amusingly lancaster and curtis earlier interactions are similar albeit less cynical to what they d do in sweet smell of success the following year now trapeze was shot in cinemascope and boy does it show the sweeping shots of the circus interiors courtesy of robert krasker proves that cinema can lead to something beautiful the problem is that the general picture relies more on the images than the story that goes with them such is life trapeze is by all accounts the standard spectacle picture of the 1950s but it still has its moments a little bit more time spent on the script would ve benefited it greatly but all in all it s the kind of film you can t see yourself watching again unless you re in that kind of mood my rating 1 2 posted by movienut14 at 10 48 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1950s director carol reed movies reviews wednesday april 9 2025 mortuary with so many names who grew up on b movies end up making movies themselves it s little surprise that such titles would inspire their own work be it cheeky homages or full on dedications what were initially written off as cheap productions have had a more lasting impression than intended and none more so than horror pictures howard avedis mortuary certainly plays up the various elements found in b movies it s admittedly self aware in its cheapness which is more than can be said about other titles from the same time that said it s clear that said belt tightening affected the quality of the overall script honestly a student film is better written than this being released in the shadow of titles like suspiria and halloween ironically both of which were blatantly cribbed here mortuary feels completely lackluster in comparison it s not just about depicting decent scares it s about building suspense for the scares that s key to horror if there s one redeeming aspect of mortuary it s that it features bill paxton early in his career being one of the few actors who elevated a movie s quality from his presence it s clear that paxton approached the script differently than his co stars regardless movies lost something when he died in 2017 mortuary is very much lacking in its many moving parts with a barely cohesive script it s the kind of picture that a new on the scene actor typically does so they can make rent still paxton just barely saves it from complete unwatchability faint praise yes but it s all it earns my rating posted by movienut14 at 11 28 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1980s movies reviews saturday april 5 2025 at close range fact is often stranger than fiction it s why people are so drawn to true crime and why hollywood practically drools over the potential money it ll make and it shows how the most unexpected people will do the most unexpected things take for instance one bruce johnston sr he and his gang of thieves some were his own family members terrorized chester and lancaster counties in pennsylvania for years before his criminal empire crumbled a few years after johnston and his crew were sent up the river james foley s at close range was released naturally names were changed but that doesn t make it any less unsettling what makes at close range stand out is that it s not set in some thriving metropolis as most neo noirs are but rather the rural outskirts of it the sweeping farmlands and small storefronts provide a stark contrast to the neon lights and tall buildings after all more secrets can be hidden when you know your neighbors but in watching at close range it becomes bittersweet in seeing what became of foley s career between the success of this and glengarry glen ross six years later it looked like everything would be in his favor but as is the case with any promising career in hollywood it didn t pan out that way sure he had success with television but his more recent film entries are eesh at close range is an understated work on the strength of family ties with strong work from sean penn and christopher walken it depicts the poisonous grasp sometimes found within a family blood may be thicker than water but in this instance it spills just as easily my rating 1 2 posted by movienut14 at 7 56 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1980s movies reviews wednesday april 2 2025 spontaneous combustion tobe hooper has always been something of an anomaly within hollywood after hitting it big with the texas chainsaw massacre he never seemed to reach the same heights afterward even the success of poltergeist continues to be overshadowed by rumors that steven spielberg actually directed it though he shifted to television soon after that s not to discredit his film work completely now spontaneous combustion is hardly top tier material from hooper or from anyone involved in this really but it still gets the job done but boy even then it s tough to get through at times oh the plights of late 80s early 90s horror flicks that s not to say spontaneous combustion is completely terrible far from it hooper had a good idea for his picture make no mistake the problem is that everything around it stumbles at the starting gate honestly most of the actors oversell the half hearted dialogue of course there is one shining grace to spontaneous combustion its star brad dourif being the kind of actor who knows how to work with what he s given he elevates the otherwise lackluster title though one has to wonder how much of a role child s play had on his casting here spontaneous combustion is by no means a masterpiece both hooper and dourif make it mostly tolerable though in watching this it makes one think a retrospective on hooper is due sure there were some following his death in 2017 but there could stand to be a few more even if a lot of his output fell flat 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