Back in the day, just before Seinfeld mania hit the country I was watching Jack Lemmon in Mister Roberts. He plays a lazy, fast talking, pretty boy, cowardly, skirt chasing loon named Ensign Frank
“Dad used to say the only causes worth fighting for were the lost causes.” Remember back in the old days when there were only about six television channels and you’d marvel at your middle
Jean Arthur was Frank Capra’s secret weapon. Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart had all the bravado moves, but Arthur was the key to convincing the audience that these wholesome, ordinary men of truth and
“It’s not a rip off it’s an homage.” What a weird artifact of the late ‘80s this is. Dirty Harry as graying pissed off pulp super hero. By this time, Clint was making Dirty Harry
Boy did Ronald Reagan love this movie! He should have because after all he was the nation’s cheerleader for the right wing movement that made Harry fashionable again. It’s always been my contention that
“Well that’s very stylish.” Harry Callahan’s thoughts on women in the police force. How does this guy still have a job? The only people he treats as rudely as the street vermin he dispels with
“I didn’t shoot at anyone who didn’t start shooting at me first.” Man there must have been a ton of crime in San Francisco in the ‘70s. This is a movie that anticipated the narrowing
In which, Clint Eastwood gives us the morally ambiguous cop for which every red blooded white American male had always been longing. Hero as stalking killing machine. Eastwood’s neo fascist Dirty Harry was controversial
I’ve come to love reading history, but you have to admit that it’s gotten to be pretty bleak territory these days. Today I decided that maybe we’ve gone too far when I saw the following
Warning: Superbad is rated R for surprisingly everything under the sun except nudity(!) and people who don’t remember what it was like to be 17 should avoid this movie like the plague. Superbad is everything
My website gets few hits, but the post that without a doubt does get the most hits is this one from January 14th, 2008: “Rodger Penzabene Lost Romantic” Now at that point, I was
Ever seen Jay Mohr’s classic Saturday Night Live skit It’s Christopher Walken for Skittles? Well, this is just as weird. Doyle Brunson told Clonie Gowen that every night before he goes to sleep he