‘Arts’ Archives
Movie Corner – Top 10 Films of 2019
Howard McQuitter By Howard McQuitteroldschoolmovies.wordpress.comhowardmcquitter68@gmail.com 1. 1917Director Sam Mendes epic World War II film where two British soldiers Lance Corporal Schofield (George McKay) and Lance Corporal Blake (Dean- Charles Chapman) are ordered to go through areas largely abandoned by the Germans to warn 1600 British combatants not to attack for the Germans are planning to ambush them. Largely shot in one take “1917”, the movie should join one of the best war films in film history. (R) Running time:119 minutes. War/Drama/Thriller. 2. Once Upon a Time”¦ In HollywoodBack to Hollywood in 1969 with Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) on the rise as an actress. Rick Dalton (Leonardo Di Caprio) is almost a has-been TV and silver screen actor and his stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) tries to find work in his beloved Hollywood. (R) Director: Quentin Tarantino. Running time: 161 minutes. Drama/Thriller/Period Piece. 3. JokerA cautionary tale this [...]
Movie Corner December 2019/January 2020
By Howard McQuitteroldschoolmovies.wordpress.comhowardmcquitter68@gmail.com “Motherless Brooklyn” (2019)Â Warner Bros. Rated R4/5 Stars “Motherless Brooklyn” is a novel by Jonathan Lethem, the adaptation a movie by Edward Norton, though the setting is originally in the 1990s, Norton skillfully rolls back to the 1950s. Mind you, Norton worked on the script, of course, with changes, for 20 years. I”™m glad he decides to capture New York City””Brooklyn in particular””at a time when the mob and the mayor are often inseparable. All in all, “Motherless Brooklyn” is a detective movie, a good one, in which Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton) is like a precursor to Peter Falk”™s “Columbo.” Lionel”™s boss, Frank Minna (Bruce Willis) and Lionel were raised together as boys in a Catholic orphanage. Frank started his own detective business. Both men search for corruption such as insurance scams [...]
Book Review Thirty Rooms to Hide In: Insanity, Addiction and Rock ”˜n”™ Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic
By DWIGHT HOBBES Luke Longstreet Sullivan”™s memoir, Thirty Rooms to Hide In: Insanity, Addiction and Rock ”˜n”™ Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic (University of Minnesota Press), brilliantly written, does not make for particularly pleasant reading. In fact, it”™s the kind of the experience, especially being a true story, that, beyond depressing, can make you get up on a grey, drizzling morning, look out the window think about slitting your throat. Sullivan, in this wholly engaging, wryly irreverent, cynically bittersweet account of tragic trials and tribulations, recounts how helplessly he, his five brothers and their mom suffered through years of being ruthlessly abused by dad and husband, a raging drunk whose binges eventually, one might say thankfully, saw him out of their lives and into his grave. (more…)
