Top Posts & Pages
- Movie Review: The Sad Aftershocks of "Obsession"
- Movie Review: "Toy Story 5" is all Message, Little Fun
- Movie Review: A Jewish Summer Camp comedy with more "Oys" than Laughs -- "The Floaters"
- Movie Review: Good Gawd, Gosling! "Project Hail Mary"
- Movie Review: Pokey Cowpoke Saga takes us "Where the Wind Blows"
- Movie Review: "Der Tiger" ("The Tank") Lumbers down a Too-Familiar Path
- Classic Film Review: Jimmy Stewart, Strother Martin and Kurt Russell, 1930s Ex-Cons on a "Fools' Parade" (1971)
- Movie Review: "The Musicians" become a reluctant String Quartet
- Movie Review: Love, Sex and Steroids in Affluent Italia -- "Love Me, Love Me"
- Movie Review: "The Secret Between Us" isn't worth Keeping
Find a Movie Review
Like Movie Nation on Facebook
Daily Archives: November 12, 2023
Netflixable? Mexico’s “Hurricane Season” unravels a murder and the prejudices that led to it
Literary devices and constructions don’t always translate easily to the screen. And the current screenwriter obsession with making many a script play out in “chapters,” denoted in pointlessly distracting onscreen graphics, is one of the clunkiest. Even when you’re adapting … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Netflixable? Mexico’s “Hurricane Season” unravels a murder and the prejudices that led to it
Classic Film Review: Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts star in Lindsay Anderson’s “This Sporting Life” (1963)
“This Sporting Life” sets up as a formulaic hardscrabble “rise and fall of a sports hero” drama, the tale of a miner who gets his first taste of success and the “good life” of the English upper classes via stardom … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Classic Film Review: Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts star in Lindsay Anderson’s “This Sporting Life” (1963)
Movie Nation 