Category Archives: cinema

I wonder whether Tony Robinson got the part of Baldrick, flunky to Prince Edmund the Black Adder, partly because he resembles Gunnar Björnstrand who played Jöns the squire in The Seventh Seal (1957).

War and Peace (1956). I got bored halfway. Henry Fonda, at 51, played Pierre, traditionally a young idealist. Bus Stop (1956). Fluff. I was curious about it mainly because my hi-skool put on the play one year. I remember being … Continue reading →

Has the blind cartoon mouse met his match? Don’t miss — Zatô-itchy and Scratchy!

Funny blunder in Kubrick’s The Killing (1956): when George (Elisha Cook) takes a pistol from its hiding place, he pointlessly works the slide before inserting a magazine: the gun is thus not in firing condition. Other movies seen this week: … Continue reading →

Saw two excellent Hitchcock pictures this week: Strangers on a Train (1951) and Dial M for Murder (1954) — each of which concerns a tennis champion with an inconvenient wife. In the latter, Grace Kelly’s accent is sometimes plummier than … Continue reading →

In Angel episode 4:8 “Habeas Corpses”, there’s a long scene where Our Heroes have to fight off a horde of zombies with nothing but their fists. It’s twice as tricky as it might be, because one hand is busy holding … Continue reading →