I Saw A film! In 1965 Woody Allen was a red-headed Funko-pop version of himself and someone thought it would be a great idea to let him write a comedy screenplay. The result is this wholesome, white-bread, slapstick, sex adjacent, square-ass, mustard-on-a-hotdog of a film. Yes there are a few guffaws delivered by Peter Sellers,…

I Saw A Film! More Goldie Hawn, being both sardonically stand-offish and utterly frabjous as Peter Seller's fixe d'amor du jour. Sellers is an upper class restaurant reviewer and television personality, doing quite well for himself, living a reasonably high life, driving a Bentley (or something similar) and enjoying his pick of lovely women and…

A pair of middle-aged couples, sincerely grasping at some Nixon era self-help hope through pop psychology and embracing a kind of forgiving openness that begins to both strain and expand their friendships, seem destined for partner swap. Is that really enough for a movie? So we've got our goofy and pouting Elliot Gould, our post…

I Saw A Film A young man, who is blind and doesn't quite have the skills of Zatoichi, moves into a hippy apartment in California and soon finds out he's neighbors with perky and adorable Goldie Hawn. I'm not sure a better thing can happen to a (hetero) man, but while lots of sweet hi…

While I only Just learned about today as a holiday, it's about time we celebrated moving away from the castigation of fellow human beings as lesser beings. I realize that many blue collar friends have trouble wrapping their heads around the protests, the slogan "Black Lives Matter" and an entire slew of other cultural events…

I Saw A Film! I'm told that at the height of his movie-making career Elvis was making about six films a year! And while they're not particularly involved things (largely insipid, formulaic and not requiring much in the way of production value), that had to have been a numbing experience. No wonder he worried if…

One of my dearest pals asked me just a few moments ago! Good question! Answering this is a kind of extrapolation of taste, and taste is something I've been curious about for many long years now. On on the outset I might say I missed a lot of old movies. There are, of course, many…

I Saw A Film Is there anyone more squint and angular threat than Lee Van Cleef? Off the success of The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Van Cleef followed a thoroughly entertaining dusty trail of gunslinger roles that inspired so many spin-off tales they sprang up like pasture shrooms, and some were just as…

I Saw A Film Warren Beatty is fun as a lady-killer hair dresser just trying to get enough dough to launch his own business, as he knows he'll always be spinning his tires working for someone else. Meanwhile a number of his clients are also quite sweet on him and he does his best to…

I Saw A Film A typical folk hero outlaw story set in Australia in the mid 19th century, and largely driven by song exposition to give the overall feel of how you're supposed to be digesting the thing. Of course, this particular wrongfully-punished-and-turned-outlaw type adventure stars none other than Mick Jagger in his first movie…