Donovan’s Reef Legendary director John Ford and legendary star John Wayne made a good number of quality films together, and this effort from 1963 would be the last of their collaborations, kind of a light-hearted affair set in a tropical paradise that has more relation to an Elvis movie (minus the singing) than any of […]
Dr. No Sometimes a reviewer has to ask themselves, is something that was fresh and new and exciting in 1962 still retain the same quality today, when so many elements have since lent themselves to the level of cliché and parody? That issue comes into play with this, the first ever James Bond movie, and […]
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Stanley Kubrick (as we know) was not only a guy who made movies in several different genres, but wound up often succeeding at making the BEST movie of all time in that particular genre, and this 1964 effort still stands today as […]
Dracula ’79 In many cases, doing an adaptation of a classic story or play can subject one to all sorts of scrutiny, much moreso if the adaptation is done as a major motion picture in any given era which thus makes it the “definitive” version for that generation (and preempts any other major attempt for […]
Dressed To Kill Brian De Palma at one time had made a career and had been lauded (and criticized) for making movies that emulated the style of Alfred Hitchcock. Now while that IS true (to an extent), it also remains a fact that these “homage” films introduced a nearly pulsating undercurrent of sexuality that Hitchcock […]
Driven A film that pretty much does for the sport of Indy CART racing what Any Given Sunday does for football, this is a film that has drawn enormous criticism for its lack of realism, but then again how many popular movies about other professions can say otherwise? The film follows a group of racers, […]
The Driver Action movies are almost always noted for their excessive nature, that eternal tendency to throw everything and the kitchen sink into the equation. Certainly Walter Hill, a director who is renowned for a number of action classics, is every bit as guilty for overloading his films with over the top sequences as anybody, […]
Duck Soup In 1933, The Marx Brothers would come out with this, their fifth effort as a movie comedy team. Sadly, it would be the last ever film appearance for Zeppo who quit film acting entirely after this, becoming a talent agent along with a number of other pursuits, citing how he was tired of […]