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Big Eyes (2014)

April 25, 2019April 18, 2019 ~ idrawonmywall ~ Leave a comment

Directed by Tim Burton Big Eyes is Ed Wood-lite, another dramatization of a true story about an artist with varying degrees of success.  In the former Tim Burton movie, Ed Wood was a director of unmistakably bad movies, though undeterred by each subsequent success.  He remained an optimist through and through.  In Big Eyes the … Continue reading Big Eyes (2014)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

June 29, 2018June 29, 2018 ~ idrawonmywall ~ Leave a comment

Directed by Don Siegel In the first scene of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, we look inquisitively at a panic-stricken doctor, Miles (Kevin McCarthy), who claims that there have been a series of strange events.  He is surrounded by those who doubt whatever story it is he’s about to tell, even as they are quite … Continue reading Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Stalag 17 (1953)

March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 ~ idrawonmywall ~ Leave a comment

Directed by Billy Wilder [EDIT: This is a long, rambling review as I try to figure out what Stalag 17 is really about.  By the end I decide it's about the postwar conditions of the 1950s, specifically the red scare.  It takes me a while to get there, and I still might be completely missing the … Continue reading Stalag 17 (1953)

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

March 18, 2018March 19, 2018 ~ idrawonmywall ~ Leave a comment

Directed by John Frankenheimer Birdman of Alcatraz is a little too long.  That's my first thought.  I can only listen to the soothing musings of Burt Lancaster for so long, and with this movie I started to tune him out at around the 100 minute mark.  Lancaster plays Robert Stroud, a murderer quick to anger. … Continue reading Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

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