Good Night, And Good Luck This telling of the showdown between CBS journalist Edward Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy comes off as a full wellful of missed opportunities, due mostly to the slipshod directing by George Clooney and the pedestrian TV-movie style script by Clooney and Grant Heslov. Murrow and the others come off as […]
Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper In many ways, concert films are only as good to a person depending on if they’re a fan of the band in question, whereas non-Led Zeppelin fans might have trouble getting into something like The Song Remains The Same. With this reviewer though, Alice Cooper is truly the […]
Good Will Hunting It’s still pretty amazing to me that after Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in essence wrote their own ticket with this script (and picked up an Oscar), that to this day they have yet to try to write another insightful, intelligent story like this, choosing to eschew that to pursue Hollywood stardom […]
Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Almost any list of the most essential films for all guys everywhere is sometimes a rather short one consisting of what can be called the “basics” (just witness Christian Slater’s mini rant to the movie producer in True Romance), but one movie that almost always gets named by people […]
Goodfellas How highly skilled can a filmmaker actually be when he can come up with a movie featuring an entire cast of wholly unlikable characters while glamorizing a lifestyle that most consider to be extremely repugnant, and with a story that plays out where (arguably) the least likable character of them all not only gets […]
Goonies Watching this cult classic from 1985 almost fills one up with a sense of melancholy for that particular decade: the days when kids enjoyed simpler pleasures before the Internet, cell phones, 3D video games, and social media poisoned their hearts and their minds. Director Richard Donner gathered together a cast of unknowns (many of […]
Graduate Though kinda having slipped in stature in the last few years (going from the AFI’s Top Ten down to Top Twenty), this remains over 45 years after the fact truly one of the greatest movies ever made, and still holds up today remarkably well because there will always be young men (and women) who […]
Gran Torino After the abysmal overrated failures that were Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River, Clint Eastwood returned to form in 2008 with this piercing urban comedy drama that marks his last (or so he says) on-screen appearance and can certainly be chalked up as the best film he’s done in years. Playing Walt Kowalski, […]
Grease Oftentimes, the best movie musicals are the ones where the storyline means absolutely NOTHING and is continuously secondary to the songs themselves and the energy displayed with the dancing and big numbers, so it is little surprise that this much revered 1978 release falls right into that category. It also remains the highest grossing […]
Great Dictator There is no doubt that Charlie Chaplin was the first and arguably still the most beloved major movie star of all time. Spending the first decade of his career cranking out his silent short films with their impeccable comic timing before moving on to his features (most of which are usually considered as […]