This is an ever-evolving work-in-progress — last updated: July 20th, 2024. Every blue title is a link to the movie’s IMDb page — the industry-standard Internet Movie Database. If this makes just one person see one great movie, it’ll be worth it. If you want you can click on any of these section titles […]
Brian’s “Hot 300” movie list
October 5th, 2010 · 55 Comments · Grateful Dead, Movies
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Fawlty Towers — a primer
April 9th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Movies
. It was written / created post Monty Python (1969-74), by John Cleese and his wife, Connie Booth. He had an opportunity to do “something” for the BBC, so they came up with doing a grumpy hotel manager, which was based on a recent film shoot by the Pythons making Holy Grail or something in […]
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Lucky Numbers film review
February 27th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Movies
film review: Lucky Numbers (2000) Directed by Nora Ephron; starring John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth, Ed O’Neil, Richard Schiff, Bill Pullman, Michael Rapaport, Michael Moore. First of all – this is made by Nora Ephron! Heartburn! Sleepless! Her and Penny Marshall have to be the two best female filmmakers going – at least […]
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