AFI Top 100 Discussion: The African Queen
Today on AFI Top 100 Discussion, Jon and I are discussing John Huston’s 1951 adventure film, The African Queen. Telling the story of an upright English missionary (Rose, played by […]
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Noirvember 2016: The Big Sleep
For the month of November Noirvember, I’ve decided to catch up with some classic pieces of film noir. The American 1940s-50s movement devoted to cynical fast talking anti-heroes, predatory femme […]
AFI Top 100 Discussion: Casablanca
AFI Top 100 Discussion is a series of posts dedicated to dialogues concerning the best of American Cinema as designated by the American Film Institute. Jon Harrison of A Cinematic Odyssey and […]
Noirvember 2015: In a Lonely Place
For the month of November Noirvember, I’ve decided to catch up with some classic pieces of film noir, the American 1940s-50s movement devoted to cynical fast talking anti-heroes, predatory femme […]
Dark Passage
Dark Passage was a great surprise for me. I have now seen every onscreen Bogie and Bacall collaboration and this least well known of them may be my favorite. It […]
Angels with Dirty Faces
Angels with Dirty Faces is a gangster film, and I’m a pretty big fan of gangster films. This is from 1938, the heyday of gangster films. Strangely enough, I hadn’t […]
10 of the Best Cinematic Bromances
So here’s my top 10 list of movie bromances! I rated them on a variety of things, including overall film quality, amount of snappy banter, how central the bromance was […]
Casablanca
Casablanca is pretty much the definition of a classic. Before I knew anything about Films, I would always get it confused with Gone with the Wind because they were the […]
The Soul of the Plot 