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NIAGARA (Dir: Henry Hathaway, 1953).
NIAGARA (Dir: Henry Hathaway, 1953).
Marilyn Monroe's breakthrough performance in an unusual film noir, distinguished by its use of eye-popping three strip Technicolor.
Arriving at Niagara Falls for a delayed honeymoon, the affable Polly Cutler (Jean Peters) and her husband Ray (Max Showalter, billed here as Casey Adams) encounter the altogether odder married couple Rose (Monroe) and George (Joseph Cotton) Loomis, visiting the Falls six years after their own honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. Recently discharged from a mental institution, the troubled George is scarred by his experiences in the Korean War and seemingly an ill match for the voluptuous Rose. Darker motives are apparent as Polly spies Rose in the embrace of another man. When George mysteriously disappears Polly suspects murder, but has a hard time convincing her husband and the authorities until George reappears and the fatalities begin to mount.
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HELL BENT FOR LEATHER (Dir: George Sherman, 1960).
The Audie Murphy western wagon trundled on with Hell Bent For Leather. Yet, on this occasion the end product is a mite gritter than one would usually expect from a Murphy movie.
Wandering into homestead Sutterville after having his horse stolen, cattle man Clay Santell (Murphy) is mistaken by the townsfolk for a murderer known as Travers (Jan Merlin). He is pursued by a corrupt Marshall (Stephen McNally) who knows of his innocence but wants the glory of caching 'the killer'. Santell goes on the lam, taking with him hostage Janet Gifford (Felicia Farr), herself a town outcast due to the actions of her late father.
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ARTEMIS FOUL (Dir: Kenneth Branagh, 2020).
Sci-fi actioner based upon the best selling series of YA books by Eoin Colfer.
When his criminal mastermind father is kidnapped, 12 year old Artemis Foul (Ferdia Shaw) must secure the Aculos, a magical fairy device of immense power, in order to buy his father's freedom. Along for the ride are butler Dom (Nonso Anozie), fairy cop (Lara McDonnell) and giant dwarf Mulch Diggums (Josh Gad) who has the downright freaky ability of unhinging his jaw, digging with his mouth and shooting the dirt from his backside. Big names in small roles include Colin Farrell as Fowl Sr and Judi Dench as some kind of ancient elf commander in chief.
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THE LION KING 1 1/2 aka THE LION KING 3: HAKUNA MATATA (Dir: Bradley Raymond, 2004).
Visit my blog JINGLE BONES MOVIE TIME to read a longer, more in-depth review of THE LION KING 1 1/2! Link in bio. The third and final feature in Disney’s original Lion King trilogy; burdened with the clunky and less witty title The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata internationally.
Just as Tom Stoppard’s 1966 play Rosencrantz and Guidenstern Are Dead retold William Shakespeare’s Hamlet from the perspective of the comic supporting characters, so too The Lion King 1 1/2 relates the Hamlet inspired The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994) from the point of view of co-stars Timon and Pumbaa. A neat framing device of Timon and Pumbaa watching and commenting on the original movie introduces the fairly novel conceit and also provides us with their hitherto untold backstories.
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FREAKY FRIDAY (Dir: Mark Waters, 2003).
Walt Disney Pictures’ Freaky Friday is, to date, the studios’ third of four screen adaptations of Mary Rodgers’ popular 1972 comic novel.
Here a trip to a Chinese restaurant and a mysterious fortune cookie is the catalyst for switching the mind and bodies of overbearing middle age mother Dr Tess Goldman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her rebellious, rock chick teenage daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan). Unfortunately the switch coincides with Tess' marriage rehearsal and Anna's band Pink Slip's chance to audition for a performance slot at House of Blues.
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