Spotlight on Scorsese: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Fast Film Reviews)
I’ve been a loyal reader of the nifty film review blog that Andy Swinnerton maintains over at Rorschach Reviews for some time. Recently he decided to spotlight director Martin Scorsese and invited his readers to contribute reviews on his films. I made the somewhat unpredictable choice of Scorsese’s fourth film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. […]
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Alice Hyatt, a recently widowed mother with a 10 year old son, is on the cusp of starting anew. Her journey out west is an odyssey of sorts – to re-ignite the singing career she abandoned when she got married. The plot is formed from a series of vignettes as she heads out west to […]
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
A New York City subway train is hijacked by a group of 4 men and a ransom of 1 million dollars is demanded for the safe return of the 17 passengers. Well plotted, heist movie has a refreshingly simple plot. Story isn’t corrupted by the needlessly complicated gimmicks which often hamper modern films, including the 2009 […]
Black Christmas
Sorority house is terrorized by obscene phone caller. Then people start disappearing. Early slasher film is an influential slice of horror which actually predates Halloween by 4 years. Doesn’t seem particularly innovative today because of the hundreds of horror films that came after it. However this film does have some dramatically menacing scenes. Exploitative in […]