The Frame

Virtually everything about this film is perfect. I was not expecting to like it nearly as much as I did, but I was riveted.

It’s a fascinating idea to make a movie focused on the famous Iwo Jima photograph and the effect that it had on the morale of the country as well as on the men who were in it. I’m not sure the movie as a whole fulfilled the premise–the pacing was a bit off at times [...]

I’ve heard about this for so long and seen so many random clips and heard so many random lines that I don’t know how often I checked it off on lists as having seen it. Even though I hadn’t. But now I have! Go me. Kate and Bogie make this work, because honestly, the story, [...]

AKA Steven Soderbergh’s incredibly obvious homage to 1940s cinema in general and Casablanca in particular. George Clooney investigates the death of a journalist (Tobey Maguire) in post-WWII Berlin and finds it’s tied up with a former flame of his (Cate Blanchett) and her husband, a scientist trying to get out of the country. Shot in [...]

In John Ford’s great classic war film, John Wayne and Robert Montgomery are the commanders of a fleet of PT boats in the Philippines, trying constantly to convince their superior officers that PT boats are actually, like, useful in combat and constantly getting pushed into messenger and ferry service instead. Most of my war film [...]