I saw this strange dark film on late night TV when I was a kid and it made an impression on me - certain intense scenes stayed with me - the rickety bridge crossings, the local man getting rabies and being brought in by ropes by the townspeople, Ford's dog mad from rabies, etc. I just saw it again and I really enjoyed it. It is well done, obviously on a low budget as part of an American/Mexican production. Ford is quite good as a depressed, drunk doctor at a rural Mexican mining town who gets bit by a dog and gets rabies - he then has to try and drive through harsh desert to make it into the next town in time to get the serum he needs to survive. Stella Stevens is a "dance hall girl" who is brought in with a troupe of gals to entertain the workers. Stevens is so damn hot in this flick - at the height of her Swinging Sixties sexiness. If you liked this film and the genre - try George Kennedy in the equally good A Cry In The Wilderness - a 1974 TV film about a man with rabies.
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Steve Jobs
(2015)
Five Arguments In Search Of A Plot
11 November 2015
I thought the film was incredibly well acted - Fassbender, Winslet, Rogan, Daniels & Shultbarg are excellent. My problem with the movie was it was basically the same arguments over and over in five different scenes. I enjoy Danny Boyle's films very much & admire how eclectic he has been - everything from Shallow Grave to Slumdog Millionaire - but here the film is almost like a theatre piece - just tons of talking backstage and in dressing rooms. Sorkin can be good - Moneyball & Social Network but he can also be precious - Sports Night & Newsroom. I don't know what he'd do if he couldn't have a neurotic female character hold a clipboard of some sorts! Winslet does it here, Mortimer on Newsroom, the female lead on Sports Night, etc. It just seems a staple & Winslet & Fassbender are amazing in the first scene, but after that, everyone seems to have the SAME argument again and again till the end credits roll - Jobs can't admit he's wrong, Jobs refuses to mention the Apple 2 team, Jobs argues with his ex-girlfriend on whether he's the father of her kid, Jobs argues with his mentor/boss, it's all witty & sharp but because of the repetition, it just becomes white noise. And hollow. It all seemed forced that ALL this interpersonal drama and emotional blood letting went on JUST before almost EVERY single launch he ever gave.
Faces in the Dark
(1960)
Well done British Noir
23 May 2015
FACES IN THE DARK is a rather forgotten film in the British noir genre. The movie is a bit slow but totally worth hanging in there - the TWIST is quite staggering & very well done (no surprise it is based on a book by the writing team that also wrote the novels that VERTIGO, LES DIABOLIQUES and EYES WITHOUT A FACE were based on). John Gregson is very good as the rich successful man who is blinded in an industry accident. He is angry at the world with his fate and slowly begins to worry that he is losing his mind. Is he just paranoid or is his "loving" wife too good to be true? I watched this with a few friends and we all thoroughly enjoyed it.
Bob
(1992–1993)
Ahead Of Its Time
16 February 2012
BOB was ahead of its time - certainly in its setting. A comic book company? Now a network would LOVE that - how hip, how edgy, comic books and graphic novels are everywhere!!! But in the early 90's comic books hadnt quite had their comeback yet. But that's what made the show unique. The very underrated Cynthia Stevenson was so good playing off of Bob and I loved his pet cat. The show should have been given a chance and NOT changed the setting. The second season they totally changed it so Bobw as working for a greeting card company and they crowbarred in Betty White and jere Burns but the show was already staggering at that point. Seems like too much interference and second guessing. They should have left it alone and let the audience find it instead of the other way around (which failed anyway).
Trapped Alive
(1988)
Wow! This Movie Has Everything!
11 December 2011
I give this film a 7 only as an enjoyably bad movie - so it gets that score for being cheesy and fun. To its credit, you never know what is going to happen next - it seems like five screenplays were thrown into a blender and they filmed that. Escaped prisoners, two innocent girls driving home late at night, abandoned mines, sleazy cops, cannibal miners, a little gore, ta-da! We laughed and enjoyed how bad it was. Everything you would want in a 80's horror/action movie. Veteran actor Cameron Mitchell (who was on Broadway in the original cast of Death Of A Salesman and then became an International B-movie actor) plays a worried father of one of the kidnapped girls but he's hardly in it. He must of had a mortgage payment due. Check out this bizarre cheesefest. You Will Be Trapped & Entertained!
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