Avatar reviewed. Spoiler alert! (Yeah, like everyone hasn’t seen it already) Also, how will films be presented in the future. Marmaduke: The Movie. Promise or threat? The Golden Globe nominations.
Marmaduke: The Movie. Promise or threat? Either way, it’s headed to a theater near you in 2010.
The Golden Globe nominations. Predictors of The Academy Awards? Or just another tedious awards show?
Harold Lloyd’s two-reeler High And Dizzy is definitely a *hight* point in silent drunken antics. The drunk routine is like a virtuoso piece of music. The notes never change. It’s all about the performance. Complicated, but clean and direct. Difficult, but appearing effortless. The drunk has three emotional gears he can shift between. Happy camaraderie, confusion, and belligerence. There’s more than enough to provide variety and pacing for a two-reeler.
Through a happy mixture of luck, timing, and talent, Ann Rutherford made her screen debut at the age of fifteen when she appeared in the title role of Waterfront Lady (1935). Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, she played the leading lady opposite such screen legends as John Wayne, Gene Autry, and James Stewart. However, it [...]
The Islander Part 2. Nancy concludes her interview with the wonderful Ann Rutherford, who shares her final five picks to take with her on a desert island. Ann also tells the story of how she got the part of Scarlett’s youngest sister in Gone With the Wind.
Hollywood takes on Red Box and bad Twiter movie reviews.
Ma and Pa Kettle, reconsidered. Although to be honest, we’re not sure these movies have ever been seriously considered. If not, it’s about time they were, and The Cinema Misfits are up to the challenge.
In the mid fifties, a Civil Defense short was created to address what can only be called The Tidiness Gap. Since the film was intended for the outlying suburbs and towns not immediately in the kill zone of a ground zero explosion, the whole issue of large metropolitan areas being vaporized is discretely sidestepped. The short also tends to focus on the atomic heat or “thermal wave” from a nuclear explosion, and doesn’t have a great deal to offer on the other affects from the blast like… well, for one thing, radiation.
All these years later, it comes as something of a surprise to realize that Hazel might have been our first line of defense against nuclear attack. Perhaps the Civil Defense seal should have been replaced by The Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.
The Islander. Guests are interviewed by Nancy and asked to pick the 10 films they would take with them to a desert island. Nancy’s First guest is Ann Rutherford. Miss Rutherford played Scarlett’s youngest sister in Gone With the Wind and Polly Benedict in the Andy Hardy series, and is a veteran of many wonderful Hollywood films.
Hollywood. Out of ideas, or moving in a direction so bold, so unexpected that we can only tag along and wonder at tinsel town’s peculiar kind of genius?
2012 reviewed. Spoiler alert! But to be honest, this thing is pretty spoiler proof. Things fall down and go CRASH! Oops. Did I say too much?
Hollywood. Out of ideas, or moving in a direction so bold, so unexpected that we can only tag along and wonder at Tinseltown’s peculiar kind of genius?
Jim Rutherford
Nancy Louise Rutherford
Lou Aguilar
The Misfits
