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Pressure

Posted on June 22, 2026 by Mark DuPré

Condon, Scott and Fraser I just missed the theatrical showing of Pressure due to illness, but the film still looks great on the streaming platform. It’s a serious film with an ironically punned title, taking place a few days before … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged Andrew Scott, Anthony Maras, Billions, Brendan Fraser, Brendon Fraser, Chris Messina, Eisenhower, General Montgomery, Group Captain James Staff, Homeland, Hotal Mumgai, Kay Summersby, Kerry Condon, MacArthur, Marshall, Maureen Sweeney, movies, Patton, pressure, reviews, Sverre Petterssen, Three Days in June: The Story of the D-Day Forecast, Wolf Hall | Leave a comment

Song Sung Blue

Posted on June 15, 2026 by Mark DuPré

Song Sung Blue is the true story of a pair of singers who, after covering a lot of different performers, land on a semi-successful career as presenters of a “Neil Diamond experience.” It’s a funky, bumpy mid-range-budget film, the kind … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged Almost Famous, Black Snake Moan, Craig Brewer, Elia Anderson, film, Greg Kohs, Hugh Jackman, Hustle & Flow, Jim Belushi, Kate Hudwon, kate-hudson, Michael Imperioli, Milwaukee, movies, Neil Diamond, NIne, Song Sung Blue | Leave a comment

The Big Trail (1930)

Posted on June 1, 2026 by Mark DuPré

There are two fallacies attached to this (pardon the pun) pioneering film. One is that it is simply forgotten as an early widescreen film; if you study film history, you’ll likely run into the old chestnut that This is Cinerama … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged CGI, Christopher Nolan, film, John Ford, John Wayne, movies, Napoleon, Raoul Walsh, review, reviews, Stagecoach, The Big Trail, The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight, The Robe, Tyrone Power Sr., writing | Leave a comment

The Jolson Story

Posted on May 15, 2026 by Mark DuPré

This film from 1946 should not hold up. I was just checking off a box when I decided to see it. The film is based on the life of an entertainer who was essentially forgotten by the time it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Amadeus, blackface, Bohemian Rhapsody, Columbia, film, history, jazz, Jolson Sings Again, Judy Garland, Larry Parks, minstrelsy, movies, music, My Three Sons, Night and Day, reviews, Rhapsody in Blue, Rudy Wissler, Scotty Beckett, The Dolly Sisters, The Jazz Singer, The Jolson Story, Till the Clouds Roll By, William Demarest | Leave a comment

The Devil Wears Prada 2

Posted on May 11, 2026 by Mark DuPré

The first film was fun, lively, and had a few very good and one great performance in Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly. Twenty years later, we have three Oscar winners (Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Kenneth Branagh), two Oscar nominee (Emily Blunt … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged A New Hope, Anne Hathaway, Elon Musk, Emily Blunt, film, Jeff Bezos, Justin Theroux, Kenneth Branagh, Meryl Streep, Miranda Priestly, movies, Runway, Stanley Tucci, The Devil Wears Prada, The Empire Strikes Back | Leave a comment

Weapons

Posted on April 20, 2026 by Mark DuPré

I was loving the film Weapons right up until Aunt Gladys forcefully enters and takes over the narrative. (She is presented subtly earlier in the film.) Aunt Gladys is played in a delightfully over-the-top fashion by Amy Madigan in an … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged Amy Madigan, Aunt Gladys, Cary Christopher, Haley Joel Osment, horror, Josh Brolin, movies, Oscar, The Sixth Sense, Weapons, zach-cregger | Leave a comment

Actresses We Lost Too Early

Posted on April 5, 2026 by Mark DuPré

The loss of a talented film actress is tragic in many ways. Of course, there is the immediate mourning of a friend or family member. But there is also the heartbreak of what they could have done, what great performances … Continue reading →

Posted in Film-Related Articles | Tagged A League of Their Own, A Patch of Blue, All About Eve, Asphalt Jungle, Barbara LaMarr, Bombshell, Buddy Rogers, Bus Stop, Buster Keaton, Carmen Jones, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Charles Manson, Chattanooga Choo Choo, Clark Cable, Clark Gable, Cleopatra, Coming Home, Don't Bother to Knock, Dorothy Dandridge, Elizabeth Hartman, Elizabeth Taylor, Ellen DeGeneres, Fayard Nicholas, film, Finding Dory, Finding Nemo, Gail Russell, Gary Cooper, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Ghost, Harold Nicholas, Heddy Lamarr, Hollywood, Jane Fonda, Jean Harlow, Jimmy Durante, John Barrymore, John Wayne, Julia, Klute, Laurel and Hardy, Made for Each Other, Maltese Falcon, Marilyn Monroe, Marx Brothers, Meg Ryan, movies, Mr. Wrong, My Man Godfrey, Niagara, Nothing Sacred, On Golden Ponds, Once Upon a Time in Hollhywood, Oscars, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, reviews, Richard Dix, Rosie O'Donnell, Sharon Tate, Sidney Poitier, Sleepless in Seattle, Some Like it Hot, Spencer Tracy, The Beguiled, The China Syndrome, The Color Purple, The Girl Who is Too Beautiful, The Misfits, The Morning After, The Prince and the Showgirl, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Seven Year Itch, The Three Musketeers, The Uninvited, The View, Thelma Todd, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, To Be or Not to Be, Tom Hanks, Twentieth Century, Valley of the Dolls, Walking Tall, Whoopi Goldberg, William Powell, You're a Big Boy Now, ZaSu Pitts | Leave a comment

Dark Victory (1939)

Posted on March 27, 2026 by Mark DuPré

Melodramas have a bad reputation, as if this were a lesser genre than say, the musical, action/adventure, the biopic, the suspenseful thriller, and horror. But Gone with the Wind was a melodrama, as was Titanic. More recently, Manchester by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Academy Awards, All This and Heaven Too, awards, Bette Davis, Beyond the Forest, Casablanca, Dangerous, Dark Victory, Edmund Goulding, Emilia Perez, film, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gone with the Wind, Grand Hotel, High Sierra, Humphrey Bogart, In This Our Life, Jezebel, Johnny Belinda, King's Row, Knute Rockne All American, Life with Father, Manchester by the Sea, Max Steiner, MGM, Mildred Pierce, movies, Now Voyager, Of Human Bondage, Oscars, Petrified Forest, Ronald Reagan, Scarlett O'Hara, Since You Went Away, The Caine Mutiny, The Garden of Allah, The Great Lie, The Informer, The Iron Claw, The Maltese Falcon, The Old Maid, The Rich are Always With Us, The Roaring Twenties, The Whale, Vivien Leigh, Warner Brothers, Wuthering Heights | Leave a comment

Quick 2026 Oscar Show Response

Posted on March 17, 2026 by Mark DuPré

Although the numbers watching the Oscars telecast has been inching upward these past few years, remember that more than 25 years ago, 57 million folks tuned in. Now it’s just a bit more than 20 million. Many reasons for that, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film-Related Articles | Tagged Academy Awards, Amy Madigan, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, awards, Barbra Streisand, Bridesmaids, Brigitte Bardot, Bud Cort, Catherine O'Hara, Chris Evans, Conan O'Brien, Diane Keaton, Eric Dane, f1, film, Golden, Hamnet, I Lied to You, James Van Der Beek, Jesse Buckley, Michael B. Jordan, MIchelle Willians, movies, No Country for Old Men, One Battle After Another, Oscars, Oscars 2026, Paul Thomas Anderson, Rob Reiner, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Redford, Sean Penn, Sinners, The Devil Wears Prada, Timothée Chalamet, Weapons | Leave a comment

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Posted on March 3, 2026 by Mark DuPré

A child molester-murderer is on the loose. A city is terrified, and mothers are keeping children close. Police, who are too many times lazy and distracted, finally focus on the case. The underground syndicate also wants to find the murderer, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged A Free Soul, Casablanca, film, Fritz Lang, horror, lietmotiv, Lionel Barrymore, Looney Tunes, M, movie-reviews, movies, Peter Lorre, police procedural, reviews, serial killer, Sophia Loren, The Women, thriller | Leave a comment

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