What Else I Saw in June 2024--12 Mini Movie Reviews
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
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Movies mentioned:
Man in the Middle aka The Winston Affair (1964)... streamed on TH-cam
Peninsula (2020)... watched on Blu-ray
The Longest Day (1962)... streamed on TCM app
The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)... streamed on TH-cam
Our Man in Havana (1959)... watched on DVD
Cloak and Dagger (1946)... half on DVD, half on TH-cam
Duel at Diablo (1966)... streamed on Prime
Fiend Without a Face (1958)... streamed on Criterion Channel
The Last Starfighter (1984)... watched on DVD
Prey (2022)... watched on Blu-ray
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)... watched on Blu-ray
Peking Express (1951)... watched on DVD
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I cannot help but smile when listening to this lovely lady.
I love this channel!!! It's my go-to for movies I've never heard of or heard of but never saw.
I think the really special thing about "The Longest Day", is that a lot of the actors actually served in WW II. Richard Todd was actually at D-Day.
Is he British? I read that one of the brit actors was actually in the real life battle that they recreate just as it happened. That would be the assault on the village with the high camera angle filmed in one shot.
Yes, famously Richard Todd (who was born in Dublin) plays his own commanding officer, reenacting his part in capturing and holding Pegasus Bridge.
@@JeromeWeiselberryThat's amazing!
@@JeromeWeiselberryInteresting 😊
Wasn't Pegasus bridge in A bridge too far . Part of operation Market garden .
Hi Jerome. Thanks for another round of mini reviews!
Thank you for your reviews .
I've seen a number of these films , but I appreciate the recommendations on Cloak & Dagger , Fiend Without a Face , and Prey .
I will certainly be exploring those films .
Cheers !
I totally understand your feelings about The Last Starfighter. This movie holds a special place in my heart. In the early 1980s, I was an engineer designing computers. It was the first film to extensively use computer graphics, which got me excited about the future. The animation was done using a Cray supercomputer, which struggled to provide enough computing power. The DVD contains additional material that delves into the challenges faced during the making of the movie. It's interesting to note that a modern cell phone has far more capability than that old supercomputer.
Like you, I felt that the story was somewhat derivative of Star Wars. However, I did enjoy the beta unit and found the relationship between Alex and his girlfriend touching. The movie even led to a video game of the same name, which I found enjoyable to play.
I like how your shirt matches the owl in the background .
Lewis Milestone who directed All Quiet was a outstanding director. He also directed Edge of Darkness a favorite Errol Flynn war movie about the German occupation of Norway and another favorite war movie Pork Chop Hill about the Korean War.
thanks for sharing all the neat things you saw again!
Your review of "The Longest Day" was right on the mark! Remember, It was all done with practical effects. No CGI back then. In case you didn't notice, it features not only Sean Connery, but his co-star from "Goldfinger," Gert Frobe. He was the German soldier on horseback delivering the morning coffee.
This was just a few years before Goldfinger. They blew up real buildings instead of computer generated ones and had hundreds and hundreds of extras. No way would that be made today.
Hello Jerome I hope you had a wonderful Fourth of July! Have a great Saturday night!
Fiend Without a Face: the best flying brains movie ever! I love showing the climax to people who have never seen it. The reactions I've observed range from "Ew! Disgusting!" to "Whoa! That's so cool!"
Hubby and I still luv and watch THE LAST STARFIGHTER.
We ran a 16mm print of Fiend Without a Face in the early 60's at the TV station where I worked. You could see the wires holding the monster on the control room monitors.
Finding out none of my games were recruitment tools to prepare me for going to space to fight aliens was one of the hardest things to accept as a child. 😭
Thank you Jerome for the movie reviews.
I saw your review for "Train to Busan" and did watch it. Very interesting film. Not an all-out horror movie. It's interesting to see the father / daughter storyline accelerate throughout the film. I did not know a sequel was made for it.
I am so glad you finally got to see "Prey". The environment is what made me fall in love with this film. Probably a large percentage of the natural environment is CGI. However, it does look like a lot of scenes were shot on an actual location.
Thank you for your reviews, as always!
Our Man In Havana needed ORSON WELLES. He kicks The Third Man into high gear. But then you could say that about a lot of films. They needed Welles!! Keep up the good work, Miss Weiselberry.
Jerome, your video reviews always brighten a routine and boring day 😊! You make me want to seek out these movies. Interestingly, Nick Castle was the name of the character played by Tom Atkins in THE FOG from 1980. The western movie sounds interesting and what you said about the music caused me to remember WHITE COMANCHE, a 1968 European western with a music score that was basically jazz (!). William Shatner played a dual role and Joseph Cotten was the town sheriff or marshall, I forget which. I won't say it's a great movie bit I mainly watched it becomes the beautiful actress Rosanna Yanni was the lead.
Thanks again and stay cool, literally 😊!
Fiend Without a Face is an awesome movie from that great late 50s era. Drive ins were probably packed for it.
Hello, Sister Jerome!
This is such a great way to cap off my evening, winding down with your reviews.
I got to see THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY the other day, still a great picture, the first time I 've seen it in color. The restoration is wonderful.
DUEL AT DIABLO is an unsettling, but entertaining Western; I never recognized John Hoyt, either.
FIEND WITHOUT A FACE still manages to creep me out, especially when the guy with the half eaten brain comes back.
Again, thank you for your charming videos.
Thanks for giving us these mini reviews. You just gave a few ideas for rewatching this week and a couple of first time viewings.
1st time subscriber........like your read and content so much, brava.
Good reviews JW. The thing with Our Man in Havana is that you have to watch it as an absurdist piece. Watching it as a straight piece is like watching The Holy Grail as a historical piece. It will just leave you disappointed.
Hello J, happy summer weekend. The first WWII movie I watched after taking a course in that subject was The Longest Day; the class increased my understanding tenfold. I think it was on HBO or Cinemax so there was no option - it was on when it was on. So, the whole thing at once. I finally got to see Oppenheimer last month, which may have some parallels with Cloak and Dagger (not crazy about the title, but it looks good). Have a great day/week, take care.
Saw The Longest Day at the theatre with my dad. Always recall the Red Buttons scene where he's stuck on that church steeple after parachuting in, seriously tense, and the device used to recognise the other Allied troops that sounded like a German bolt action rifle, great stuff. Got to watch it again soon. Liked The Last Starfighter, it's like a John Carpenter movie only made for kids. Prey's great too. I've got to watch the new version of All Quiet On The Western Front, apparently it's totally brilliant. I've seen the Richard Thomas version too, it's good, certainly worth a look.
"Micro-absurdities"! I have a new phrase, thank you!
I'm a major Predator fan and it was a smart move of you to skip the predator. Prey was pretty awesome and I liked its connection to Predator 2 at the end with the flintlock pistol.
I know many disagree but I never thought the original Predator movie had enough "weight" to warrant a sequel, let alone a franchise. Like you, I thought it was...OK enough...but that's about it. Yet here we are, 37 years later, still getting sequels. Sigh. And don't even get me started on the Friday the 13th films! I am glad you enjoyed "Fiend Without a Face"; it's a lot of fun and crazy as all get out.
"Fiend Without a Face" benefits greatly from its pacing and tone. By the time the "faceless fiends" show up, you're kind of wrapped up in the goings on. I think it really helps that this is a British production. It doesn't have that American glitziness to it. "The Last Starfighter" is pretty much owned by Robert Preston and Dan O'Herlihy. That makes the movie worthwhile.
I remember seeing The Longest Day with my dad, who served in the 82nd Airborne slightly after WWII with many of those who jumped on DDay. I was impressed that the truly human moments stood out in the midst of the broader brush strokes.
I also totally agree with your review of All Quiet. You can understand why Hitler banned both the book and movie. What a human tragedy. And I think it was far superior to Kubrick's overly self aware The Paths of Glory, another antiwar film.
Thank you especially for your child like (never childish) enthusiasm. And especially glad you got a kick out of Fiend! Wasn't that a hoot!
Love the Green Slime character on the book shelf.
Is that what it is? umm, interesting.
Happy 4th of July! Great reviews as always. I've seen a couple of these but will definitely check out the rest : )
Thanks for not describing the ending of "All Quiet On the Western Front", everyone should be able to experience it for themselves. I just love Lew Ayres, especially his post war work in "Johnny Belinda" and "The Dark Mirror ",, he was so warm and intelligent and mature.
Ah, Johnny Belinda is such a great film!
Novelist Graham Greene wrote both Our Man in Havana and The Third Man. Both stories came out of the same head! The influence of Orson Welles on The Third Man made a big difference.
His performance in Dances with Wolves was epic. One of the best movies all time.
@@MichaelPK03 Hahaha!
"Fiend Without a Face" is one of my favorite cheesy b-movies. Absolute crap classic!
Hi Ms. W. Thank you for the reviews. Here is some of what I watched in June:
One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) B
The Spiders 1: The Golden Sea (1919) B-
The Spiders 2: The Diamond Ship (1920) C
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) C
Home from the Sea (1972) A
That Uncertain Feeling (1941) B
The Perfect Woman (1949) B
A Brutal Tale of Chivalry (1965) B+
Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934) C
Samurai Saga (1959) A
The Vampire and the Ballerina (1960) B-
The Rickshaw Man (1958) B+
Rififi (1955) B+
Masquerade in Mexico (1948) B
Tokyo Sweetheart (1952) B
Hell in the Pacific (1968) B+
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) B
Babette's Feast (1987) B+
Big Trouble in Little China (1986) B
The Tartars (1961) C
Martin Luther (1953) B
Black Moon (1934) B
Weird Woman (1944) C
(I had lots of free time.)
A few notes about one of these films, Samurai Saga (aka Life of an Expert Swordsman). It's a retelling of the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, with Toshiro Mifune as the lead character, a mighty warrior with a poetic soul. He helps his shy, less eloquent comrade (Akira Takarada) win over the woman they both are in love with. Toho stalwart Akihiko Hirata is also in the movie as a fellow (but devious) samurai. I didn't plan it, but it was sort of a Mifune month. He was also in Tokyo Sweetheart and The Rickshaw Man (both Toho productions), as well as Hell in the Pacific (a Hollywood film).
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the extra info about Samurai Saga! The explanation makes it wayyy more appealing to me. Two of my favorite Godzilla actors plus Mifune? I'll have to look for that one.
@@JeromeWeiselberry It's on the Criterion Channel, I believe.
@@DanKyrke So it is! I was despairing that the only place I could find it was the Internet Archive. Forgot to check CC. Thanks!
Another great video. Always like waking up to find a what i watched video in the feed
This may have been mentioned already, but one very interesting item with "The Longest Day" is that Irish-British actor Richard Todd was a young officer at D-Day and involved in the battle at the Pegasus Bridge, portrayed in the movie! I think I read or heard somewhere long time ago he was offered the chance to play himself in the movie, but declined as he said the role would be too small, so instead he played his commanding officer!
Thanks for these reviews. I always end up adding a lot of things to my "to watch" list after I watch your videos. The only one of these that I've seen is Cloak and Dagger, which I watched during my obsessively completionist Fritz Lang phase.
Knowing how much you like WWII stories, and knowing a little about your literary tastes, I wonder if you've read or have heard of Connie Willis's duology of Blackout and All Clear? They might be up your alley.
I've heard of Blackout and All Clear, and I suspect you might be right. I've read four Connie Willis books so far and enjoyed them to varying degrees. I intend to read more, so I'll probably get to those at some point. I'm glad to hear my videos help you find some new things to watch!
I too was disappointed with Our Man In Havana - it felt strangely void.
Those stills of All Quiet sold me, I’ll have to get the blu-ray now.
That sounds like an excellent watching month! I watched All Quiet on the Western Front many years ago and I remember it as an amazing anti-war movie, very much in the style of pre-code war films (I believe at that time I also watched the silent version), but I never felt the urge to rewatch it 😖
Dear Ms Weiselberry,
Another great review! There are only a few that I have seen, so thanks again for the recommendations and caveats. A few of the things I've watched lately are:
"The Shadow" (15-part serial, 1940)
"Bucket of Blood" (1959) and "Little Shop of Horrors" (1960), thanks to your reviews!
"It Came From Outer Space" (1953)
"Anatomy of a Murder" (1959)
"Space: 1999" (Season One, 1975). I've been binging this old show on Amazon. I thought it held up pretty well, but that may be nostalgia talking.
In the serious category, I also watched the documentary series "The Nazis: A Warning From History" (1997)
Peace
There are several versions of Our Man in Havana floating around. That’s probably why there seemed to be parts missing.
I really liked Duel in Diablo, but I tried watching it a third time (previous viewing was 10+ years ago) but it couldn’t get through it, despite the stunning Utah scenery, and terrific actors.
Glad you liked All Quiet. I’m in my sixties and watching and reading it was kind of a rite of passage for me and most of my friends in college. Vietnam was fresh in everyone’s minds. An interesting bit of trivia is that the novel’s author, Erich Maria Remarque ended up married to Paulette Goddard of all people, and they sought and enjoyed refuge and peace in rural Switzerland for the rest of their lives.
I didn't know he married Paulette Goddard! That is interesting. Quite different from her marriage to Charlie Chaplin, I'm sure.
Connery could play an Irishman because his father was Irish and his mom was Scots . . . . It's the only way someone from Edinburgh could get away with saying, "It takes an Irishman to play the Pipes."
I like the earth parts of “last star fighter” once we get into the space parts it just feels cheap
Thanks for Sharing. I like that you know what you like and don't like. I do happen to like the Science Fiction movies. The Last Starfighter is one of my favorites. Mostly because it was a form of CGI before it was popular. The story is a bit less unbelievable but the characters are likeable and its a little more fun than expected. It does lean towards boys in the story. I guess I appreciate the style of the movie a lot more than what now is CGI norm. Quite A lot of movies you went over.
Just this month, I actually saw both the Winston Affair and the Longest Day. The Winston Affair falls under a little undiscovered gem of a film, Robert Mitchum does his usual fine turn, and I think Keenan Wynn performance, was borderline Oscar worthy. I though the Longest Day was very good, although not as good as Private Ryan. Other films on your list I have seen were Our Man in Havana. which is like a poor movie watcher's Third Man. I think Duel at Diablo is a very underrated western and found both James Garner's and SIdney Poitier's performances to be very solid. Lastly I saw All Quiet on the Western to be one of those classic films, that all film buffs should see. I actually the Richard Thomas remake and thought it was solidly done. The only other film I would like to see on your list is Secret at Convict Lake, its on my massively long must see film list.
Alls quiet on the western front is my favorite fun fact it had actual WWI veterans as extras which is how the director heard about the hands on the barbed wire
Just watched "Fiend without a face". What a fun, silly movie. Thanks for a recommendation aI would never have heard about otherwise.
I'm glad you had a good time with it! :)
hope you had a great 4th ofJuly Jerome!!!!
I love Alec Guinness, but I am holding off on seeing Our Man in Havana as I have read most of Graham Greene's work and want to read the book first. I also love Sidney Poitier, and I have watched most of his films, but I remember not being too impressed with Duel at Diablo.
So many movies….so little time…. (Ala Burgess Meredith in a twilight zone episode)…
Agree re The Longest day. The tracking shots are amazing. All Quiet on the Western Front(1930) is by far the best version and most moving one. The 70s TV version was v good for a TV Movie. I just cant finish the German|netflix one. Glad you did skipped The Predator:) Thanks for the Vid
My biggest problem with Prey is that it's predictably anachronistic. The idea of a Predator going up against infamous warriors from various historical periods is cool, but that's not what Prey offers at all. Instead, the hero is a teenage girl who is more than a match for any of the actually experienced men in her notoriously vicious tribe (which is completely sanitized). Naturally, the Frenchmen are portrayed as disgusting, cruel, and incompetent. It's a modern self-insert story and a waste of the premise.
I also strongly disliked the Predator behaving like it knew it was the monster in a slasher movie, stomping around making as much noise as possible. Why did it even use the camouflage, beyond the fact that it's iconic imagery for the series?
The Longest Day is probably the best war movie ever made. You can't get an ensemble cast like that anymore. I read somewhere they wanted to get Eisenhower to play himself but decided he looked too old for the part by then. I also love the Last Starfighter and I would be that demographic you mentioned.
The lack of real blood in "The Longest Day" is not a flaw and that is what made it the greatest movie ever about WW2. The Hays Code was still kind of in effect and that's a good thing. "Saving Private Ryan" depressed me. That's not what movies are supposed to do. People that want that much realism should just watch the news channels. To quote Ray Harryhausen when asked what he thought about CGI, "If you make a movie look too real, you're taking away the whole cinema fantasy".
I believe I read somewhere (so take this with a grain of salt) that actual D-Day veterans were allowed to see test footage of The Longest Day in color. Overwhelmingly they favored the black and white version, and they praised the film for its realism and how it rang true to their memories of the event. I don't think any of them sneered at its lack of gore or its dramatic liberties. It's certainly a product of its time... but I don't consider that a bad thing.
I enjoyed your review of THE LONGEST DAY---I watch it every June 6 even though its has inaccuracies and corny scenes.
Trivia:
Like you, I also wince at the scenes of soldiers being shot and raising their arms in the air. Ken Annakin directed some of these scenes, and he had even more arm-raising deaths in BATTLE OF THE BULGE. As for the lack of blood in the death scenes, I read the movie rating board notified producer Darryl F. Zanuck to minimize the blood content.
THE LONGEST DAY team of Annakin, Stuart Whitman, Irina Demick (Zanuck's mistress) and Gert Frobe reunited for THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES---where Demick again played a beautiful French woman in Normandy.
Many of the actors were too old to play the characters in the movie (example: John Wayne was 55 when the movie premiered, but his character, Lt. Col. Vandervoort, was 27 on D-Day).
Maj. Werner Pluskat was the first German to see the Allied fleet off Omaha Beach and was a technical advisor on the movie----but other soldiers in his unit said Pluskat was not on Omaha Beach on D-Day because he was really in a Paris bordello on June 6.
Hans Christian Blech played Pluskat in THE LONGEST DAY where his car ran off the road after being strafed by an Allied plane in THE LONGEST DAY, and his car was run off the road by an Allied plane again in Annakin's BATTLE OF THE BULGE.
Richard Burton and Donald Houston played RAF fighter pilots and friends in THE LONGEST DAY, but Burton's character killed Houston's character in another hit World War II movie, WHERE EAGLES DARE.
After the Rangers capture the bunkers on Pointe du Hoc, they discover the big cannons in the bunkers are gone, so a Ranger (Fabian) asks if their raid was for nothing, but the movie failed to show the Rangers found the cannons in a nearby orchard and blew them up.
Eddie Albert played Col. Thompson in the Omaha Beach scenes, but in World War II, Albert was a landing craft commander who was awarded the Bronze Star for saving 47 Marines under heavy fire during the Tarawa invasion.
Also, in THE LAST STARFIGHTER, Meg Wyllie played Granny Gordon, but she may be better known for playing one of the Talosian Keepers in the STAR TREK pilot "The Cage".
A lot of favorites in there, along with the almost now standard pararllel-ratings with yours.
Marvin Miller has this massive catalog of voice-acting/narrator services 'forever' but he was largely an unknown face until 1955, when TV's THE MILLIONAIRE arrived and Marvin Miller played the pseudo-detective/finder and deliverer of The Millionaire's life-changing check to each episode's recipient. This was a 200+ episode series from 1955-1960, and he played this character also in cameo TV comedies, walking on, walking off and everyone in the audience 'got it' that the TV show's host (like Jack Benny) just lost out on a million-dollar check. But looking at his IMDB credits, I never realized how vast his narrator/voice-actor career spanned.
Fiend Without A Face & All Quiet On the Western Front are favorites that I've watched several times each. Hell's Angels (1930) directed by Howard Hughes with assistance from James Whale is an interesting WWI aviation film with amazing effects. I was wondering if you ever reviewed a W.C. Fields film? If not, I'd suggest It's A Gift (1934) or Man On The Flying Trapeze (1935). Thanks for all the varied reviews👍👍
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Hope you had a most excellent Independence Day, Madame Weiselberry.
Okay, I haven't watched the video as I noticed you reviewed Fiend Without A Face. Coincidentally, I just got the DVD in the mail from Barnes & Noble (they're doing their twice yearly Criterion sale). I bought it on a whim, want to watch it without bias.
But I did just finish watching All That Money Can Buy(AKA The Devil And Daniel Webster). Walter Huston as Old Scratch is great! Overall, I was very happy with the film. I might also be making nonexistent connections but there's quite a few moments which I'd swear were an influence on William Friedkin's The Exorcist.
Speaking of Criterion also received a Blu-ray copy of Diabolique.
As for other movies? Geez...finished watching the Lethal Weapon series. Great stuff, if extraordinarily silly.
Rewatched the Brendan Fraser Mummy movie and The Mummy Returns. The first one is a solid flick. The second one suffers from sequel-itis but is still entertaining despite that. Also, Rachel Weisz is just a *fine* woman.
Started Beverly Hills Cop. Never seen it before. Really liked the first one.
The Replacement Killers directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Chow Yun Fat and Mira Sorvino. Saw this in the theater in high school, hadn't seen it since. Amazon just out of the blue recommended it. Picked it up on a whim for cheap. Yup, as I recall it's a solid action shoot-'em-up. Looked really good on blu.
Finished watching the Godzilla Millennium series. I have this strong feeling that massive quantities of cocaine played a major role in the production of Final Wars. That movie was nuts! Bonus points for Keith Emerson having a hand in the score.
An Actor's Revenge, a Japanese film from 1963. It's a period drama about, uh, a kabuki actor seeking revenge. If I may recommend one movie it's this one. Loved it. Some excellent cinematography to be found here. It's on The Criterion Channel.
The Funeral, another Japanese movie. It's a social satire poking fun at all the formalities in Japanese life. It's darkly funny at times and just a touch gratuitous. There's one bit involving a bunch of hangers-on drinking on the dead man's family's dime that is pretty laugh out loud funny.
Anna Christie with Greta Garbo. And this is where I get to admit I had never seen a Garbo film before this and I had no idea she was Swedish. Garbo gets hitched to a guy she knew for like five minutes. Garbo owned this movie. She had me hooked.
And that's enough from me.
Take care and God bless!
Ooh, I hope you enjoy Fiend Without A Face as much as I did! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on what you've watched lately. I agree that Final Wars is nuts; I've actually been thinking about rewatching it. And while I haven't seen Anna Christie, it's my experience that Garbo tends to own *every* movie she was in. :)
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Coincidentally you've reviewed movies with strong streaks of realism. Duel at Diablo is much more violent and terse than most contemporary westerns,Cloak and dagger has a brutal fight scene where Gary Cooper uses the violent methods taught to real life OSS agents in WWII, as alluded by others Richard Todd actually was a paratrooper who seized pegasus bridge on D-Day in the movie he plays his commanding officer.Finally All quiet on the western front shows a lot of how fighting in WWI actually happened which most movies avoid or misunderstand,they rush across no mans land kill their opponents with grenades and bayonets,make their opponents run away to the next line of trenches,then they receive the same treatment when the enemy counterattacks. Movies to bring up when old movies are accused of unrealistic action though your comment on the deaths in the longest day are very valid too.
Always a pleasure Weiselberry.
This month's noteworthy mention here was Stephen King's "Needful Things" - not a memorable month for movies
Enjoyable rundown of some interesting films. I would highly recommend the recent remake of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. I think it is true to the book and a fine compliment to the original. If you would like a different take on the theme of how war looks to the foot soldier, I'd recommend WOODEN CROSSES, directed by Raymond Bernard in 1932. It's told from the French perspective but, not surprisingly, tells the same tale. (Bernard is famous for making the first film adaptation of LES MISERABLES... all 281 minutes of it!)
I really enjoy your reviews!!! Some time in the future how about some 1950's SF/Horror "B" movies maybe if you have time!! Keep up the great videos you do!! David N.
Did you ever see Vidor's The Big Parade? Talk about rawness.
Recommendations: Goosebumps (2015) & The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
Nice video
To focus on one of my favourite (and nostalgic) sci-fi films...The Last Starfighter.
I've watched (and rewatched) it over the decades, and still love it. The actors, the plot, and even the CGI effects, regardless how dated they may seem.
I've been hoping for a possible remake, at the least to update the effects (like what has been to Star Wars and Star Trek)
I saw rumors about a sequel, possibly titled The Last Starfighters, but it sounds like it's had trouble getting going.
I like Fiend Without a Face - it's surprisingly gory for a film of its time and the story kinda reminds me of Forbidden Planet albeit told in a very different way. I think I also need to watch The Last Starfighter again and bask in some 80s goodness :) I like that you watch some different stuff even if you don't end up liking it that much. It's good to hear some other opinions.
Here are some of the movies I saw in June:
Fresh (2022)
Color Out of Space (2019)
Carlito's Way (1993)
Beach Red (1967)
Solstice (2008) - on YT
Miss Meadows (2014)
Zero Day (2003) - on YT
Bones and All (2022)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1958)
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Breakdown (1997) - on YT
Inhumanwich (2016) - on YT - this movie is cheap and very silly but it's also pretty funny.
I love your voice.
Guiness had quite a 1959-60 with Our Man in Havana and Tunes of Glory .. . . .
Love 'The Fiend Without A Face'
Reminds me of 'The Tingler' 😁
Have 'The Last StarFighter' on DVD (#271 in Box 2)
All Quiet on the Western Front = #91
The Longest Day = #295😉
All Quiet on the Western Front is my other fav WW1 movie along side Gallipoli
The Last Starfighter had very early computer animation. The movie is in the time capsule category. The Longest Day had the advantage of having consultants who were there, and they had them from both sides. All Quiet on the Western Front had the advantage of showing the war from the losing side. There is no, it had to be done and it's good that we won. The Man in the Middle seems a good movie for me to look out for. Have you seen "A Town Without Pity" or "Operation Crossbow"?
Fiend Without a Face! Love it. Also, you've got me interested in Duel at Diablo and sold me on The Longest Day. Prey also sounds intriguing -- what might you say to Predator vs. Samurai? I gather that I like Our Man in Havana more than you do -- which gets me to wondering, have you seen another Alec Guinness movie, The Man in the White Suit? One of the greatest science fiction movies ever made. My beloved departed father got me to see Western Front, for which I am grateful. Thank you for an excellent wrap-up, Rome, and owl be seeing you.
Mm, Predator vs. Samurai sounds intriguing. I haven't gotten to The Man in the White Suit yet, but it's on the list!
If you want a World War One film that was made in the immediate aftermath of the war I recommend J'Accuse (1919) directed by Abel Gance. There's a couple of different versions of it. The blu-ray is the 1938 sound version which takes into account the oncoming WW2.
I saw the 1958 version a year or two ago.
I've never seen the third man but will have to search that one out due to your recommendation.
I've also not seen the original All quite on the western front, the 1979 remake is really good, I wasn't impressed with the 2022 version.
Let me put it this way the 79 version is a character driven story and the 22 version is plot driven. It has great cinematography but the characters are very much secondary to the story.
Also, a few recommendations, as if you need them. The Italian Renaissance swashbuckler, The Prince of Foxes is an absolute gem, starring Wanda Hendrix, Tyrone Power, Felix Aylmer and the incomparable Orson Welles as the nefarious Cesare Borgia! If anything, it is too short, given the gorgeous filmed on site backdrops. And another Tyrone Power film, The Captain from Castile, where Caesar Romero chews up the carpet as the Conquistador Cortez. I'm a sucker for classic historical drama! Good luck.
I enjoyed Captain from Castile. And that dance scene between Tyrone Power and Jean Peters? Whew!
@@JeromeWeiselberry WOW! Talk about restrained passion! I do ballroom dancing, and love the tango and rumba, which are bookends in the way they express romantic feelings.
I hope you have a way and time to see The Prince of Foxes.
Thanks again for your breezy reviews! I will watch anything with the great Keenan Wynn, even if it is a bit part. I found The Longest Day kind of a slog, to be honest. Pretty dry and uneventful. I am a bigger fan of A Bridge Too Far, which seemed much more moody and successful at pulling so many sequences together for a complete, epic film. Duel at Diablo should have been a classic considering the amazing cast, but l found it just okay and not very memorable - another example of an overblown 1960s western. And God Bless Lew for still finding a way to serve his country in nobel fashion!
Ha, if I remember correctly, I found A Bridge Too Far kind of bloated and dull, so there you go! :)
Your take on 'Our Man in Havanna' is interesting. I've seen it a couple times and have never thought of it as containing similarities to the 'The Third Man'. I don't love it like I do Third Man, but it seems a completey different picture to me. Maybe I should take another look to see what you are talking about.
Did you buy your shirt to match the owl or the other way around?
I suspect the fact that I rewatched The Third Man not that long ago may have affected my viewing of Our Man in Havana. If it had been years since I'd seen it last, the stylistic overlap might not have been so glaring.
Haha, the owl was a gift from my parents over a decade ago and I just bought the shirt within the last couple years. I had no idea it would match so well. :)
@@JeromeWeiselberry Well, it's a very nice shirt. Your taste in fashion is as great as your taste in cinema! 😃
I actually like The Last Starfighter. I understand that you didn’t, but I still respect that very much. I also wanted to share what I watched in June.
1. The Muppet Movie …. In theaters
2. Zack Snyder’s Justice League …. On Max
3. Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: Once and Always …. On Netflix
4. Robot Dreams …. In theaters
5. Starman …. On Netflix
6. Prey …. I also watched this, but on DVD! 😆
7. Power Rangers (2017) …. On Blu-ray
8. Tuesday …. In theaters
9. The Quick and the Dead …. On Netflix
10. Inside Out 2 …. In theaters
I hope you and your family had a wonderful 4th of July! 🇺🇸
From what I hear, most people do like it, so I'm in the minority, ha. Thanks for sharing what you watched!
"The Muppet Movie"... in theatres? The original from 1979? Was it re-released at a theatre near you?
It was re-released in select theaters for two days through Fathom Events, but to answer your question, yes it was near my area.
Actually, this is the first year in a long time I have not watched The Longest Day around D-Day but I would prefer that film over Saving Private Ryan. Did I listen to the song on the day yeah there's actually a vocal arrangement of the music. Also Last Starfighter is not a good movie it's just not MST3k bad it's bland although the only noteworthy thing is it is one of the pioneers of CGI which 9 years later in 1993 Jurassic Park technology got perfected.
wooden crosses is a good partner movie to all quiet
Prime often has poor copies of movies.
Yes, that's been my observation as well.
Eh-hem... I was a teen girl and yea into Star Wars and Star Trek and I love The Last Starfighter.
Ms. J., do you ever avail yourself of TCM's online streaming? They have a constantly changing list of classic movies , including some obscure greats like "Street Scene" and "A Matter of Lie and Death".
Yes, I watched The Longest Day on there. I have some issues with how they run the app, but I check it regularly, since some movies are only up for a week and I don't want to miss anything of interest that isn't available anywhere else.
Have you ever seen Ladybug Ladybug ? Very unique and sadly forgotten 60s cold war item … it’s like a nuke scare film set in Mayberry … cast is mostly kids … and the creators did all kinds of noteworthy stuff … worth your time, I think
Yes, I saw Ladybug, Ladybug a few years ago. I talked about it in this old What Else I Saw video, if you're interested: th-cam.com/video/ZJbrmXYOWJ0/w-d-xo.html
@@JeromeWeiselberry I’ll check it out thx!
Random trivia: the director and writer were a husband-wife team who did lots of interesting stuff … like David and Lisa and a hugely underrated Joel Gray/Cliff Robertson thriller called Man in a Swing … both of which are well worth watching … I think Katy Perry is their neice
Can I ask - how do you record your videos? I feel that what makes your content so good is that it’s very genuine i.e. it comes from you and has no added artifice. So many TH-camrs nowadays feel they need a huge podcast mic stuck in their face, lighting that gives their eyes that weird ring, and they have to be in some sort of self made toy shop store cupboard. Do you use a camera, or some other device, and do you bother with a mic at all?
Well, I divulged a little of this in my 8th anniversary video: th-cam.com/video/Zs3Sz5tMX1U/w-d-xo.html I'm using the same wonky arrangement I've had for years (laptop webcam sitting on a container stacked on a chair, additional light an old lamp from my grandfather's house...). It's low-tech and old-fashioned, but I'm comfortable with it, it takes just a minute to set up, and after all this time, it's what my regular viewers are used to, ha. I've got a lav mic, but I struggle with it and have only busted it out on rare occasions so far. I'm not a quick adapter, so I'd like to keep things the way they are for as long as possible!
JW,
What is your "Coffee Page?"
My Ko-fi page: ko-fi.com/weiselberry I occasionally post exclusive videos there for those who support the channel.
Have you seen the Cloak & Dagger movie from the 80s? It's nothing like this, but a really good film
No, but I did learn of it when searching for the 1946 movie. :)
@@JeromeWeiselberry I can't recommend it enough. I saw it in the movies back in the day (it didn't do well in my town-the theatre was EMPTY)
I wish "just another Dabney Coleman work" would be 100% complimentary - it is FOR ME, I know. But so's the all-too-rare SHORT TIME (1990; Dabney's misdiagnosed with a soon-to-die condition, confronts his lousy fatherhood life and decides to 'go out big' on his police force and earn big insurance money AND a heroic rep so he takes every dangerous suicide-mission; except, he's not dying. I cannot help but envision Dabney's 9 TO 5's new life in the jungles).
Peninsula is a bit like a combination of Mad Max,Escape from New York and Land of the Dead.
The creatures in Fiend Without a Face remind me of something out of Eraserhead.Very David Lynch.
I know this is not a popular opinion but I largely enjoyed The Predator 2018.Which does take a nosedive in
the last act due to reshooting that is poorly edited (A character is killed off in a way that happens so fast
it is almost subliminal.)It was nice to see the return of The Monster Squad screenwriting duo of Shane Black
and Fred Dekker even if the fans were down on this one.
All Quiet on the Western Front is possibly the only war film I have seen that is 100 percent anti-war.
Most other war films contain some element that excites,intoxicates or inspires patriotism in some way.
The remakes are both very good but I think 1930 is the best.
Movies I watched in June 2024 for the first time.
Father Goose 1964,Tobruk 1967,Hit Man 2024,Dinner in America 2020,The Zone of Interest 2023,
Andrei Rublev 1966,While She Was Out 2008,Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948,
Saw X 2023,A Quiet Place Day One 2024.
Thank you.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein in the summertime--nice! How did you like A Quiet Place Day One? I've heard mixed reports, mostly positive, but not overwhelmingly so.
@@JeromeWeiselberry Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein in the wintertime here.Loved it.
A proper Universal monster movie that Bud and Lou just happen to wander into.
A Quiet Place Day One is pretty good.An emotional character drama punctuated by big city monster attacks
and human escapes.Lupito Nyong'o is a fine lead.The gimmick is showing signs of fatigue and it
lacks the nail biting suspense that John Krasinski generated in the first two.Still quality and worth seeing.
Thank you for your reply.
Oops, I forgot! You're upside down and enjoying winter right now. :)
Glad to hear you enjoyed Day One and thought it worth the watch. I really liked the first two films, and I'd like to like this one as well, so that's encouraging.
@@JeromeWeiselberry You get so many comments from so many different people,that I am amazed
that you can remember anything about anybody.I have it very easy in comparison.You must have a system.
Your videos drop on Sunday here.
Hope you like Day One when you do get to see it.
Thank you.
Marshall Thomson usually didn't play desperate characters. Usually, he played nice guys eling with
tough events. Ford's They Were Expendable and the Audie Murphy biopic To Hell and Back are examples . . . .
I guess I just haven't seen those movies. He does have a nice guy face, a kind of boyish look.
I’ve seen all but two! :D I’m excited and a little disappointed because i read the description section you added first to see if there was a film on your list i could see before watching your review and started reading from the bottom up and read Peking Express, All Quiet on the Western Front, Prey and The Last Starfighter, ‘ i saw them :D’ I saw Fiend Without a Face some time ago but watched it again last night, Duel at Diablo I’ve seen a couple of times, Cloak and Dagger I’ve seen but watched that one again on Sunday evening, Our Man in Havana, The Secret of Convict Lake, Gene Tierney and Teresa Wright could possibly be my Ronald Colman and Paul Henreid lol. I’ve seen The Longest Day maybe four times :) I’m going to do it, do the impossible and then my eyes fell on Peninsula and i thought ‘ Peninsula? what’s that? haha, I haven’t seen Man in the Middle either :( lol, I’ve seen so many Mitchum films but missed that one completely.
The Longest Day- I think it’s a very good film and believe it achieves what it sets out to accomplish, the cast are all excellent, we worry for them and admire their bravery during the horrible and frightening events portrayed, some of the events may not be historically accurate but I’m okay with that, it tells the story of soldiers or characters from their own different points of view and they’re all individuals who experience the same events differently, one soldier may think they were under fire from 200 German troops and the guy next to him may think it’s 2,000. The film leaves the audience with a great sense of admiration for all who actually fought during the War like Richard Todd who I’m sure would be chuffed to bits that you pointed out he was born in Dublin :) I agree with everything you’ve said about the overacted scenes, overacted maybe unkind from me, the overdramatic performances when characters are shot can be rough at times but like you it doesn’t affect my fondness of the film. The moment when Private Steele gets caught up by his chute on the Church is the moment i think of when The Longest Day is mentioned. Steele played by Red Buttons, two Red Button appearances in three weeks, thinking of When Time Ran Out i rewatched The Towering Inferno again during the week because it aired on TV and i had completely forgotten how similar the sequence with Newman on the damaged stairs with the kids on his back is to the bridge sequence in When Time Ran Out.
The Secret of Convict Lake-I think It’s a decent western, I liked it. Glenn Ford is always solid and I liked the story idea, it was similar in some ways to other westerns I’ve seen like Yellow Sky or Rawhide with Tyrone Power but different enough that i was excited to see it, so many of the cheaper 50s produced westerns have a similar plot and shoot on the same sets and I’ve watched a lot of those so the plot for this stood out, I had no idea it was possibly inspired by a true story. (1
2) Our Man in Havana- I saw this finally some years ago after attempting to watch it twice before but couldn’t bring myself to finish it, I respect it as a filmmaking accomplishment but i didn’t love it, I feel like i should love it in honour of Maureen O’ Hara and with respect to Carol Reed but it just wasn’t for me. I’ve seen it discussed endlessly on British shows speaking on Guinness and Reed and its beloved, it seems to be discussed more than The Third Man and I personally don’t understand it, to each their own i guess. I’d call it a good film but not a favourite.
Cloak and Dagger- I’ve seen Gary Cooper in a lot of films but for some reason still find it odd when the film isn’t a western, it’s strange because he’s always been terrific in his non-western roles and perhaps better in those roles because he gets to be less stoic but I still find it strange when he appears on screen without a Stetson or cowboy gun belt. I liked Cloak and Dagger, I thought the mystery was decent and I bought into the romance.
Duel at Diablo- I’ve seen this film twice and had no idea John Hoyt was playing the Apache chief :0, anytime I’ve seen this film air on TV it’s always been after twelve am, never seen it air before that which is a bit odd. I enjoyed this film, it’s decent but wouldn’t call it great. Garner and Poitier are charismatic and I liked their chemistry. I also liked Garner a lot in Support your Local Sheriff, I think the film is good, okay, but Garners presence and timing makes it very watchable for me.
Fiend without a Face- …🧠’. :D. This film, wow! When Thomas Edison was creating the film camera I’m sure this ifilm was his intention, and Robot Monster lol. Fiend and Fiend without a Face is a strange description of the creature. I imagine a police officer asking a witness to describe it and the witness says well officer it’s a fiend, officer replies with okay, a fiend, anything else? witness then replies with yes, a fiend, a fiend without a face, police officer then says ‘it has no face?’ anything else we should know? witness replies again with, yes! it also has no torso, arms, legs, head, skeleton, it’s a brain, it’s a crawling brain! Police officer: ‘ you saw a crawling brain without a body and it not having a face is the detail that registered most?’ This film was so much fun and I’m always somehow surprised by how much i enjoy these films, I giggled through most of it even during scenes that weren’t that funny, there’s a moment when Mayer Hawkins is sitting in the colonials office at the base and a fly randomly lands on his light suit and begins walks around, I was also trying to remember the first time I saw the film to jog my memory, is he the Mayer or is his name Meyer like Meyer Lansky? he’s called these military officers sir a couple of times, would the Mayer do that? Oh he is the Mayer. Barbara’s personality was funny too, she’s friendly with Jeff then screams at him with pure rage a couple of times and then she’s making googly eyes at him and they’re coupled up suddenly. The setting was interesting too, at times it looks like an English village but becomes an American town when a corner is turned and the villagers have a constable but all drive American left hand drive cars and speak with American/English and if I heard correctly Irish accents. I loved Dr. Bradley, he seemed like a straight laced scientist with no interest in the bonkers stuff he was hearing and then he admitted he was all about it and his explanation for what was happening was so wackadoo it was hilarious, his plan to control the fiends and how it went for him was funny. I really enjoyed the film :)
The Last Starfighter- I understand why it appeals to those who saw it as children and those that are big gamers and love Star Wars but it’s not for me, I can picture how it may have been pitched, “kids love video games now and Star Wars is huge, what if a kid gets a top score at the arcade and wins a chance to fly an X-Wing? Huh? right?” I’m not a big gamer and I’ve never loved Star Wars, I like it but it’s never been that special thing to me like it appears to be for the vast majority of the worlds population so The Last Starfighter was just another older sci fi film I saw on TV, it’s fun enough and I wouldn’t say it’s bad but it’s just not for me. The original Battlestar Galactica would air in reruns on a classic show/film channel when i was young and i liked the look of the cylons but i couldn’t get into it, it had a similar Star Warsy thing to it and the recent Star Trek shows also have a bit of that and it’s probably one of the reason I haven’t been able to enjoy them. I have been able to watch and enjoy the Battlestar Galactica remake because it’s much more of an aircraft carrier story, the sci fi and mythological stuff is still there but it feels like a war show set on a carrier. The Last Starfighter is similar in a way to Galaxy Quest, a human kid is picked to fly a fighter to help defeat an alien villain and a bunch of actors believed to be their TV show characters are recruited to crew a ship to defeat an alien enemy, funny though because I like Galaxy Quest. I think a remake of The Last Starfighter could do well, enlist PlayStation or XBOX to help market it, perhaps make a game first and create a contest for high scorers to win a chance of playing a small role. Galaxy Quest crossover, if the Last Starfighter was rebooted in 1999 or 2000 they could’ve had Justin Long play his Galaxy Quest fan character Brandon and the character could’ve stumbled upon the arcade and become the last starfighter because he was a gamer and knew about ship schematics and stuff if I remember correctly, it could’ve been a way to make a Galaxy Quest sequel appealing to those who weren’t familiar with it while also launching a new Last Starfighter franchise, I’ve just seemingly put a lot of thought in something I’m not that interested in lol. If I have to watch an older 80s film about a teen flying I’ll take E.T, D.A.R.Y.L, Explorers, Flight of the Navigator or The Boy Who Could Fly < odd film but i find it memorable for some reason, D.A.R.Y.L too.
Prey- I enjoyed this quite a bit, always thought it would be a good idea to have a predator visit different eras after seeing the flintlock gun in Predator 2. My reaction to it was similar to yours I think, it’s good, entertaining but it’s not the greatest film ever made. I noticed the iffy animal cgi too lol. Director Dan Trachtenberg is making another predator film apparently set in the future with Elle Fanning signed on to star, I think it maybe titled Badlands or Predator: Badlands, a predator film set in the future sounds less appealing to me too.
All Quiet on the Western Front- You’ve spoken so well on this film, it deserves the plaudits given to it, it’s so beautifully shot. Lew Ayres story is film worthy in itself, it sounds similar to the story of Desmond Doss from Hacksaw Ridge, a film about the experiences of Ayres during filming All Quiet on the Western Front and his thoughts while at home safe after a days filming knowing that most of the men who fought the war were not able to leave the battlefield to take comfort in their own beds at night and many couldn’t go home at all and how it influenced his choice to serve while being a conscientious objector, I’d find it fascinating, apparently there’s a book about him titled Lew Ayres: Hollywoods conscientious objector, I may check it out. Apparently he guessed on the original Battlestar Galactica.
Peking Express- Joseph Cotten great, the film not so much, I wouldn’t call it terrible but Joseph Cotten made it watchable, An appearance by Robby the Robot on the express would’ve made the film a bit more exciting, stick a little train conductor hat on him and they’d be onto a winner.
I haven’t seen either Peninsula or Man in the Middle but hope to see both at some point, I liked Train to Busan and remember hearing they were going to make a sequel but lost track of it, completely forgot about it and didn’t know it was made and released. I’ll need to see Man in the Middle if i want to see all of Mitchums films.
Your videos are always fun, insightful and interesting, they’re great! :)
~ Thank you Ms Weiselberry ~
I couldn’t post the comment all in one because i was getting “ your post contains an invalid argument “ lol, to be fair to TH-cam everything i post is an invalid argument lol. Finally I’ve posted a comment so long TH-cam couldn’t handle it, bound to happen at some point :) must work on shortening comments again.
What?? "Your post contains an invalid argument"? That's a new one! Doesn't make any sense. I get if they're not able to process extra long comments or if they automatically get marked spam. but that's just bizarre. Yikes. Tread lightly, haha.
Oh, you were so close! That must have been disappointing, haha. Maybe next time. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on all the films that you have watched. Let's see...
I also tend to think of Red Buttons' unfortunate parachute landing whenever The Longest Day comes up. That, and the two Richard Bs at the end. Also Jeffrey Hunter going out like a hero and Robert Mitchum striding around the beach like he owns it.
Ooh, I really liked Rawhide. I don't remember the plot details now, but when I saw it in the early days of my conversion to liking westerns, it stood out.
I wonder if Our Man in Havana gets talked about more than The Third Man because it's a more British film overall? There are more British stars (and legendary ones), plus there's the satire of the secret service, which I imagine is of greater interest and amusement if it's your own government.
Fun to read your comments on Fiend Without A Face! I'm glad to hear so many people enjoy it. Shucks, I should have given it a solo review! I agree about the scientist. He's all pooh-pooh, that's nonsense! And then he turns around and reveals the crazy he stuff he's been doing. What a goof.
Robby the Robot hijacking the Peking Express, and Joseph Cotten having to save everyone: now THAT would have been a great movie! :D
@@JeromeWeiselberry Yes the invalid argument notification was a new one haha, my comments finally broke TH-cam, i was so confused by it, did i unknowingly add something controversial or distasteful? Did something in the post come across as argumentative? I was desperately hoping that there wasn’t something in my comment that would upset you, did I offend TH-cam with my take on The Last Starfighter? lol, apparently it’s just because my comment was long lol, so odd. I googled it and it’s also happened to other TH-cam commenter’s but I’m not sure how common it is, I’d guess I’m probably fairly unique when it comes to leaving TH-cam comments lol.
I think you could be right about the possible reasons Our Man in Havana is so beloved in Britain and often discussed more than other Reed films, I hadn’t considered the points you’ve mentioned, your thoughts are always insightful and interesting.
I’ll try my best to shorten my comments again, I went all over the place in the comment, even pitching silly films, I’m so bad lol.
~ Thank you again Ms Weiselberry and have a wonderful day ~
Believe it or not around fifteen years ago there were rumours about a Pride & Predator movie being in the works. Yup, Predator in regency England stalking Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy.
Oh. Oh dear. That's not what I had in mind.
@@JeromeWeiselberry Produced by Elton John of all people!
@@andrewpragasam Whaaaat? Was it going to be a musical as well?
@@JeromeWeiselberry I don't think so. It seems like Elton John was looking to diversify into film production and inexplicably thought this was the right material to do it. In the end he opted to produce the animated film Gnomeo and Juliet. Another unconventional spin on a classic romance.
Good morning from the UK. I am curious as to how you select films to review. The choices seem so eclectic although pre 1960 films appear to be a particular focus for you. I would really like to hear what your criteria is. If you have answered this in another video then apologies and let me know and I will search it out.
There's not really any criteria or anything. I just watch what I'm in the mood for and then share my thoughts, either in a solo review or a mini review. I do try to mix the genres up, and I also try to tailor my choices to the people I'm watching with; for example, my mom likes sci-fi but my dad doesn't, so we generally don't watch those movies with him. I hope that answers your question.
@@JeromeWeiselberry It does indeed. Thank you.
Another great video! What do you think of Graham Greene as a novelist? I'm a fan, but I know he's not for everyone.
I don't think I've read any of his books.
@@JeromeWeiselberry If you get the chance, I recommend Brighton Rock and The End of the Affair. They're both very characteristic of his themes and style. Plus both novels have been adapted twice for the cinema.
@@richardenglish2195 I've seen Brighton Rock, with young Richard Attenborough. Thanks!
I liked Prey, but I was hoping it was going to be less gory and more psychological
Have you watched Attack the Block? I think you’d like that one. Not too violent but lots of swears.
No, but I believe it's on my recommendations list.