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Tag: Nostalgia

The Transformers: The Movie (1986) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

This was supposed to be a piece for the site Natsukashi, but a number of distractions got in the...

Cradle Will Rock (1999) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Tim Robbins is a talented actor and an interesting director, but on Cradle Will Rock he expends a lot of...

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Sydney Pollack’s film of Horace McCoy’s novel manages to be the ultimate in both retro-Depression gothic and late-‘60s fatalism....

Travels With My Aunt (1972) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Middling George Cukor adaptation of Graham Greene’s jolliest novel is mostly redeemed by Alec McCowen’s dab hand at portraying...

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast

Although it does not lack some pat, familiar refrains of both the popular theatre and filmmaking of its era,...

The Dead (1987) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

..John Huston’s final film begins with a long, static shot of the door to the house we're visiting. It's...

Leatherheads (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

.George Clooney’s third film as director, and his first disappointment, is rather less than the sum of its parts....

Chinatown (1974) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Review composed May, 2002: featured in The New York Times on the Web, May 2002..Chinatown, despite being an obvious...

Eight Miles High (Das Wilde Leben, 2007) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast

.Well-directed but utterly shallow biography of '60s model, hanger-on, and faux-radical Uschi Obermaier, who flees her home town and...

Ragtime (1981) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

. E.L. Doctorow’s great novel tore through its chosen window in American history like a pep-pill-stuffed jitterbugger; Milos Forman’s...

Carnal Knowledge (1971) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

.Could be Mike Nichols’ best film (or is it Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Discuss). An acerbic, unforgiving, frank...

House of the Seven Corpses (1974) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Occasionally intriguing but ultimately shoddy schlock-horror. A film crew shoot a very low-budget horror flick about the Beales, a...