J.H.

I just love the intimacy of a one screen theater, or a smaller venue with multiple screens. One of the the things I miss about NYC is Cinema Village, a multi screen theater but not as obnoxious as a multiplex since Cinema Village caters to art films, documentaries and film festivals. I saw Lensman there back in the early 90s. I also remember them doing a Jackie Chan film fest there where I got to see The Armor of God, Project A 1 & 2, Drunken Master 1 & 2, Island On Fire and Dragons Forever all in the span of a few days. Sadly Toledo doesn't have a place like that or a single screen theater. There is an old porn theater that bought by a church group, who use it for worship services once a week. If I ever won the lottery I'd try to buy it from that group, give it a serious deep clean and renovate it into a old style, single screen theater for classic movies screenings and a yearly John Waters Film Fest. Winning the lottery for the sake of my love of Cinema is my dream. James

The Road to Perdition - I remember seeing this at the old Clazel Theater in Bowling Green when it first came out. The Clazel was one of those old theaters that was built in 1926. I watched a bunch of movies there and you could feel the weight of it's history just by walking in. It seems appropriate that I saw this movie in this theater. Rewatching this movie now, I pot so many faces of actors I've become familiar with, not the least of which is Daniel Craig, but holy cow a very svelte Ciaran Hinds, a startling young Jude Law, Stanley Tucci, Anthony Lapaglia and a "Holy Cow" Tyler Hoechlin before he became the second best Superman. I really enjoy this movie. It brings back memories of freshly popped popcorn and good fizzy fountain drinks. It makes long for single feature movie theaters where congregate with strangers as the curtain is drawn back for the opening coming attractions. And then there is Paul Newman. God he is so magnetic even as a supporting player. He and Tom Hanks work so well together, it is a shame this is their only movie together because in my head I can see them doing a fun comedy that we'll never see. The Clazel stopped being a first run theater almost 2 decades back. I did get to see it as a revival movie house, it was there that I saw "A Day At The Races" in a theater for a second time. Sadly, the Clazel couldn't sustain itself showing movies and got converted into an event hall. I miss what the Clazel was, not just for the thrill of going to the movies but for what it represented in as a theater of a bygone age. It's the type of theater that Road To Perdition deserved to be screened in James

Didn't they pair Martel with Frenchy for a bit? James

I cannot Fathom a duller song to enter the ring to than "Dream Weaver". Maybe "STOP" by Gino Vannelli "Sometimes When We Touch" by Dan Hill James

The Quick & The Dead was a movie I remember critics kinda being split on it but doing moderately well at the BO. I always thought it was kinda fun and one of Raimi's underappreciated films. I wish there had been more movies with "The Lady" as the female equivalent of The Man With No Name James

Oh I've seen Night Moves and love it like nobody's business! James

Surprised there wasn't a Criterion release so I just ordered the "Special Edition" release. All this Matthau love led to me watching the clips of Kevin Pollock on the Rich Eisen show telling old stories about Matthau on the set of Grumpy Old Men. Laughed for quite a bit after that James

This is for those of us native NYC kids... Remember the line-up for WPIX11 after the 10 O'clock news? It was just great nostalgia of The Odd Couple followed by the Honeymooners and then capped off at midnight by Star Trek. That line-up lasted forever, from like late 1970s through early nineties. I imagine once Seinfeld hit syndication that line-up got cycled out. But man, I would sneak out of my room at 11pm as a kid for that 3 show line-up James

To follow up on my Legends of the Fall 2 pitch... Go back in time and have M. Night Shylaman direct a movie with Walter Matthau where the big twist at the end is the whole time Matthau was actually Jack Lemmon! James

I got the Kino-Lorber release of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and Criterion release of Hopscotch. So apparently I'm on a Walter Matthau kick and there ain't nothing wrong with that. I've talked up both these films before so no need to go into full synopsis/review. Still, these are both fun movies with Matthau just being Matthau (especially Hopscotch, where Matthau's love of classical music is written into his character). I keep forgetting to check out Charley Varrick, I've watched clips here and there but not the whole thing. Maybe I'll buy that next. Janes

Just wait for FBI: CIA: NSA: C.O.B.R.A. James

Isn't Ritter already confirmed for the 2nd half of the series? James

Man, ESPN had rodeo and the World Series of Ultimate Frisbee!! The 80s were wild! James

The more I think about it, the more my brain keeps screaming "Joan Crawford would play an amazing Andrew Jackson out of spite and get an Oscar in doing so!" James

Jeanette Lee? She was dubbed "The Black Widow" as I recall. I've never been good at billiards/pool but if I was channel surfing and she was on ESPN, I would watch her. It sure beat watching reruns of Hazel! James

See, it's for film commentary like this that has made this thread my favorite place on the DVDVRMB! I've been staring at a $20 for 10 minutes trying to imagine Joan Crawford on it James

Child's Play - No, no not the the first Chucky movie, thats actually a fun romp. No, tbis is the James Mason movie from 1972, where Mason plays a strict zlarin/Greek teacher who may, or may not be... (wait for it) EVIL!! The movie is set on a catholic boys school. There is a power struggle between Mason and Robert Preston, who is the easy going Joe Dobbs, the fighting young priest who csn talk to's young. All that stands between them is Beau Bridges, the gum teacher who This movie is weird because it sets up this "why are the boys in the school acting like they are on Lord of the Flies" angle that might be supernatural. But that is introduced and kind of discarded so we can focus on Mason as Jerome O'Malley, a disciplinarian who is torn between his job and caring for his mother. It's really not clear what this movie is trying to be. Is it about the savage kids? Is it about understanding Janes Mason's character? Why O'Malley and Dobbs hate each other? The movie has more questions than answers James

Is Filipino not considered Asian? No seriously, I don't know how other Asians view the Philippines and their people. Someone call Jiaoying Summers to clarify for me! James

Who wouldn't? The cast alone is killer! The climax is Roy Hobbs bunts but it ricochets off home plate into the stadium lights as the gjost of Wilfred Brimley says "Well goddammit!" Everyone is distracted as Wesley Snipes, not Willie Mays Hayes mind you, I mean actual actor Wesley Snipes steals home! THE FALL WIN THE PENNANT! THE FALL WIN THE PENNANT! Roll credits as, for some reason, Honeymoon Suite's "Feel It Again" plays We sweep the Oscars. Tom Berrenger's best actor speech is basically "I can't believe we made this fuckin movie!" Ecit: I need to find a way to get M. Emmett Walsh in this. I don't care that he's dead. I just pitched a movie with ghost of Wilfred Brimley in it, I'm sure our dude M. Emmett Walsh can be deep faked as some sort of ghost umpire James

I'm picturing Violence Alliance being managed by Tedfy Longcforcsome reason just he can book them against the Undertaker. I really want to Teddy Long say Violence Alliance. I also want to hear the late Ted Knight say Violence Alkiance in his Super Friends narrator voice James

Legends of the Fall 2: Major League 4 - it's about a plucky baseball team that loves fly fishing. The name if the team is The Fall. Last team in the league until a mysterious player, who had early playing years cut short after being shot in a hotel room, joins and helps them get to the world series. Cast - Tom Berrenger, Scott Bakula, Dennis Haysbert, Robert Redford, Pete Nice from 3rd Bass and the ghost of Wilfred Brimley. James

I'm still angry about this movie not being about a plucky underdog team winning the World Series. I remember sitting the theater, my temper boiling over as I waited for baseball to be brought into the story. With a name like Legends of the Fall, I don't feel like I was asking too much. I know the dirty looks I got when expressing my thoughts on the matter in middle of the movie made not to popular at the Super-Saver Cinema I watched it in James

I'm a big fan of both Crooklyn and Quick & The Dead. Hackman is clearly having fun in the latter, as opposed to Unforgiven where he's playing the bad guy but not as crazy. James

There's nothing wrong with that. To paraphrase We Hate Movies "It's OK to like a wrestler". It really seemed like they were going to get their well-deserved push based on the first Survivor Series but then it was back to being job boys for Roma abd Powers after that James

If Wilfred Brimley can go Cajun, so can Lithgow... wait, what's the point again? James