The Frame

from the pen of Jandy Stone

Posts Tagged ‘film-comedy’

Operation Petticoat

By Jandy • Mar 28th, 2008 • Category: Capsule Reviews

Enjoyable but not particularly memorable farce. Cary Grant is the captain of a submarine, Tony Curtis a recently-assigned officer whose entire military experience has thus far involved social planning for at-home military personnel. Despite his dandified manners, though, he turns out to be quite adept at “requisitioning” needed supplies via unorthodox means. [...]



What a Way to Go!

By Jandy • Feb 23rd, 2008 • Category: Capsule Reviews

Slight but enjoyable Shirley MacLaine vehicle from the ’60s.



Running With Scissors

By Jandy • Feb 23rd, 2008 • Category: Capsule Reviews

The kid who plays Augusten Burroughs is actually pretty good, and there are enough wacky things going on that it should have been interesting. But it isn’t.



Radio Days

By Jandy • Feb 23rd, 2008 • Category: Capsule Reviews

This essentially plotless Woody Allen film consists of a series of nostalgic vignettes about a 1940s working class New York family.



Juno

By Jandy • Jan 5th, 2008 • Category: Capsule Reviews

It’s been hailed by critics everywhere, it’s been called this year’s Little Miss Sunshine (it isn’t; it’s less calculating), Ellen Page has been acclaimed for her performance as the unexpectedly pregnant teenager Juno. What should I say except that it lived up to all I’d heard, Page impressed me even above my expectations, and the [...]