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• Eric Gilbert wrote a new blog post: Baby Doll Director:  Eli…   2 days, 6 hours ago
  

  Baby Doll

  Director:  Elia Kazan

  Year Released:  1956

  Rating:  3.0

  Camp classic by Kazan and screenwriter Tennessee Williams about, naturally, Williams' obsession with sexual repression and the ensuing 'insanity' it produces if not 'released.' When 19-year-old 'child bride' (since when was a 19-year-old a child? oh, America?) Carroll Baker refuses to consummate her marriage with repressed farmer/arsonist [...]

• Eric Gilbert wrote a new blog post: Starship Troopers review   4 days, 2 hours ago
  

  I remember when I initially heard that Robert Heinlein’s 1959 novel, Starship Troopers, was to be made as a film I was very skeptical. It was not so much because I rationality the reserve was any matchless feat of literature, though it is a reasonably pleasant read, but it was more because I felt [...]

• Eric Gilbert wrote a new blog post: Sex and Breakfast (2007)   5 days, 22 hours ago
  

  Sexual congress hasn’t actually been a crucial consideration in brand-new cinema (“Lust, Caution” being an exception), and onscreen breakfast has not in any degree been given its exactly, so something called “Sex and Breakfast” promises to caulk the least circadian requirements of both. However, what tyro helmer Miles Brandman serves up is a tortured talkfest [...]

• Eric Gilbert wrote a new blog post: It may begin with a funeral, b…   1 week ago
  

  It may inaugurate with a sepulture, but Hunter and Hunsinger’s marvellous double feature is no dour affair. Indeed, within seconds, as Dan (Nighy) copes clumsily with having to converse with a French woman (Célarié) to whom he’s understandably attracted, you’ll most qualified be laughing at the all too familiar Englishness on view. Not that the [...]

• Eric Gilbert wrote a new blog post: An English market town, 1954. …   1 week, 1 day ago
  

  An English deal in city, 1954. Harold (Graves) takes a accommodation in the Beasley household. All seems marvellous, but then Mrs Beasley (Julie Walters – ‘Call me Mum’) slips into the sheets with him, and won’t capture no for an answer. The guy of the bagnio remains oblivious, but the 13-year-former daughter begins to wiggle [...]

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