Patrick

Patrick

Favorite films

  • The Purple Rose of Cairo
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Summertime

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  • Live and Let Die

    ★★★

  • The China Syndrome

    ★★★½

  • Make Me a Star

    ★½

  • Golda

    ★★★

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  • Live and Let Die

    Live and Let Die

    ★★★

    First Watch

    Viewed on an Airplane

    First Impressions

    - I had a five hour flight from Barbados to Toronto this past weekend, and I didn't feel like watching anything I'd downloaded on my tablet, so I picked this one out of the Air Canada's movie selection. My Bond viewing is a little scant. I didn't start watching this series until A View To A Kill (a personal favorite, but considered one of the worst of the series, I'm told). I've…

  • The China Syndrome

    The China Syndrome

    ★★★½

    Fourth Watch

    Viewed on TCM

    Current Impressions

    - If there was ever a movie that got lucky with its timing, it's this one. If the Three Mile Island thing hadn't have happened in the same week that this was released back in 1979, it would have gone down as just a routine suspense drama, with some fine performances, but lacking in any serious action. The China Syndrome was released at the time that those 70s style disaster flicks were waning…

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  • Heaven Can Wait

    Heaven Can Wait

    ★★½

    First Watch - as part of the watchlist at Golden Reel Gin Joint

    Viewed on Youtube

    First Impressions

    - I watched this as part of the Gin Joint group. I always thought I'd seen this before, but I didn't remember a thing while watching it. Maybe I did see it - and it was just that forgettable. I also read some of the reviews from other Gin Joint members who complain about Don Ameche cheating on Gene Tierney. I can…

  • Turn Back the Clock

    Turn Back the Clock

    ★★★½

    First Watch - as part of the watchlist at Golden Reel Gin Joint

    Viewed on the Internet somewhere

    First Impressions

    - I'd never heard of this one before, and went in watching without knowing much about the plot. That was a little bit jarring, but not in a bad way. I went in thinking it was going to be a routine melodrama about marriage, but it turned into a bit of an observation about life's choices and fate. It opens…