Adam’s Rib
“You great big he men make me sick.” Sex Wars mid-century style. Adam’s Rib can’t help but look a bit dated, but it sure is a perfect encapsulation of a certain type of couple
“You great big he men make me sick.” Sex Wars mid-century style. Adam’s Rib can’t help but look a bit dated, but it sure is a perfect encapsulation of a certain type of couple
“The time to make up your mind about people is never.” This was the movie that saved Katherine Hepburn’s career. Essentially I’m pretty sure she got blackballed a bit by the industry for being too
“He looks like that fella in the movies, Ralph Bellamy:” It’s a drag to be Ralph Bellamy. Sure you get to be in movies, you’re sort of a movie star, but you’re only there
Eddie Wilson: I want something great, I want something that nobody’s ever done before. Sal Amato: Why? We ain’t great, we’re just some guys from Jersey. Eddie Wilson: If we can’t be great, then
“All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute. Why? Tell me that. If he didn’t want me to praise him with music, why
There is nothing wrong with grade A prime aged Angus beef, but sometimes all you really want is a McDonald’s hamburger. Major League is the quarter pounder with cheese of baseball movies. There’s nothing
This was probably supposed to be a feminist manifesto, but the men steal the picture. Jon Lovitz plays the wonderfully weasely Baseball Scout Ernie Capadino, and gets nothing to do nothing but spit out
It’s hard to believe now that baseball players were ever underpaid and mistreated, but in the early part of the century players took what they were offered, played where they were told, or they
There’s a 1949 movie starring Ray Milland called It Happen’s Every Spring. Milland plays a college professor, who invents a concoction of some sort that when applied to a substance causes that substance to
Archie Bunker probably would have never suspected that his meathead son in law would become such a great director, but from his classic debut Spinal Tap until he made the big money mistake that
Apparently, Clark Gable didn’t want to make this movie, and was loaned out to Columbia as a punishment by MGM for being too headstrong and demanding. If Burt Reynolds had been working in 1934
“This is my Gun, Clyde!” The cool thing about “The Gauntlet” is the overkill. What “The Blues Brothers” was to smashing police cars, “The Gauntlet” is to fired artillery. Here Clint