Warner Bros. ends the Golden Age of the gangster movie on one hell of a high note in The Roaring Twenties, one of my all-time favorite movies, starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.
(Originally posted on Channel Awesome on August 24, 2015)
Warner Bros. ends the Golden Age of the gangster movie on one hell of a high note in The Roaring Twenties, one of my all-time favorite movies, starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.
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(Originally posted on Channel Awesome on March 23, 2015)
Charlie Chaplin bids farewell to the Silent Era in Modern Times, a stellar bittersweet comedy and my personal favorite of Chaplin's feature films (not to mention one of my favorite movies period). (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on February 16, 2015)
An ex-con turns tabloid photographer in Picture Snatcher, one of my favorite James Cagney movies. (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on January 26, 2015)
The Prisoner of Zenda is not only one of my favorite movies, but is also a rare occasion of a film adaptation being better than the novel it's based on. (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on January 12, 2015)
My first Edward G. Robinson movie I reviewed on The INCspotlight, The Whole Town's Talking, wasn't exactly his best (despite a great performance on his part). The crime drama Bullets or Ballots is a much better outing for him. (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on January 5, 2015)
The Marx Bros. are at their wildest and zaniest in this hilarious anti-war comedy Duck Soup. (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on September 29, 2014)
Hercule Poirot joins forces with three other detectives to solve a daring murder in Cards on the Table, a brilliant novel by Dame Agatha Christie. Poirot made his debut in Agatha Christie's first published novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was written in 1916 but didn't see print until 1920. A former Belgian policeman with a reputation for his crime-solving abilities, Poirot emigrated to England during World War I as a war refugee. He established a private detective business and would spend the next few decades solving crimes around the world across 33 novels and over 50 short stories, Cards on the Table being the 20th Poirot novel. His final literary appearance (sorta) was in the novel Curtain (1975), in which the great detective passed away. The New York Times went so far as to write an obituary for Poirot, the only fictional character they've ever done this for. (Sophie Hannah has written a new Poirot novel, The Monogram Murders, which was released just a couple of weeks ago, but I haven't read it yet.) (Original version posted on Channel Awesome on September 15, 2014)
This Friday is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. And what better way to celebrate than reviewing Captain Blood, one of the best pirate movies ever made! (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on July 7th, 2014)
The Black Legion is noteworthy not only as an indictment of hate groups in America, but also as one of the first films to feature Humphrey Bogart in a leading role. (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on June 2, 2014)
Bette Davis earns her second Academy Award for Best Actress in this excellent drama of the pre-Civil War South. |
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