"Will you take your hands off me? What are you playing, Osteopath?"
"Well nevermind the European war, we've got something a whole lot bigger than that!"
So many great lines in this one. Way too many to take note of. They are usually flying 100 miles per hour, and frequently the subtitles were multiple lines behind. In fact, there is maybe only one scene where nobody is talking for more than a few seconds. But that frantic pace is what…
The Trouble with Hitchcock (2019 Marathon) #39/52
"No thanks, I don't want any part of her."
Most people don't start out talking about Thelma Ritter when they talk about this movie, but I'd like to do just that. Ritter is a vastly underrated actress, and she delivers a great performance here. Admittedly I have only seen her in five movies, but she was always excellent (The Mating Season is probably my favorite role of hers). Grace Kelly also delivers (as…
March Around the World 2025 #26/30 (French Polynesia)
While watching this I paused for a moment to do a bit of research, as it surprised me how well crafted it was for a seemingly random film from a small territory with hardly any film industry (and from forty years ago at that). While searching for some information online about the film's director, Dominique Arnaud, I stumbled on an archive of an article from a newspaper that appears to be called…
I am fairly certain I have seen both this second movie in the Karate Kid series and its follow-up before (I had previously rated them, after all), but my recollection of each was so minimal prior to starting this that I had to assume I didn't watch them nearly as often when I was younger. There were definitely parts about this one that felt familiar (that first "honk" moment came rushing back when I saw it, for example), but nothing…
Well I thought I had seen everything a samurai movie could throw at me, but I just watched Toshirō Mifune (Isaburo Sasahara) feed his infant granddaughter her first taste of rice as Tatsuya Nakadai (Tatewaki Asano) gently held her. Why did they do this, you ask? So she wouldn't fuss when they laid her down on the ground and then fought to the death. That was definitely one of the strangest things I have seen in a samurai film, but…
Hooptober 8.0 (2021 Horror Marathon) #3/50
"Kevin, they're the ugliest thoughts in the world."
This movie isn't explicitly about a relationship between a father and a son, but there is one scene in particular that really struck me hard. FBI Agent Will Graham (William Petersen) is standing in a grocery store talking to his son, who is confused about why his father had to spend time in a psychiatric ward after his encounter with notorious serial killer Hannibal Lecktor (Brian…
