Romance

 

Frontier Marshal (1939)

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Randolph Scott plays Wyatt Earp and Cesar Romero is Doc Holliday in this superior B western expertly directed by the great Allan Dwan. Wyatt Earp helps to civilize Tombstone after eliminating a murderous gang in the OK Corral. The film was based on the novel Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal by Stuart Lake and John Ford’s [...]

Funny Ha Ha: It’s, Um, Uh, A Pretty Great Movie

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

Part of the reason I like the movie Funny Ha Ha so much is because of my personal history with it. I feel toward it that proprietary affection you feel toward movies that seem to pop up out of nowhere and seek you out, especially if you see them alone; it’s as if they’re something [...]

500 Days of Summer

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

500 Days of Summer Trailer

Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn’t. This post modern love story is never what we expect it to be — it’s thorny yet exhilarating, funny and sad, a twisted journey of highs and lows that doesn’t quite go where we think it will.