Spitball Army

watched Nov 09, 2017 spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 6.0 [DVD, library] Wonderful footage of early 20th century L.A. The narrator, however, suffers from “Los Angle-is” syndrome, and continually pronounces Olvera Street as “Olive-arrow” Street, which I’m certain only irks us natives. https://boxd.it/lw6mb

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watched Nov 08, 2017 spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 8.3 [DVD, Netflix] Elisabeth Moss (who I greatly admired as Peggy Olson) and Boyd Holbrook (who I hadn’t noticed before, but apparently have seen in about a dozen movies) got me so emotionally involved that, at one point toward the end, I had to pause the DVD […]

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watched Nov 07, 2017 spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 6.3 [DVD, library] MELODRAMA!!! Crazy-great ultimate Hitchcockian ending scene, plus several uncredited appearances of Brahms’ Symphony No. 3. There is a shot near the end of the movie with Robert Montgomery climbing a staircase a la Cary Grant in SUSPICION (though without the light-bulbed glass of milk) […]

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watched Nov 07, 2017 spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 4.3 [DVD, library] I found this screwball animated take on “Of Mice and Men” (in which Lenny gets his “revenge”) to be in questionable taste, but then found myself wondering if I’ve become too politically-correct in my thinking. Still, this is slight entertainment, at best. https://boxd.it/lsckd

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watched Nov 07, 2017 spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 6.0 [DVD, library] A public service short that begins with the friendly Los Angeles motorcycle cop describing his job and all its petty annoyances. He shares some very interesting driving statistics, spanning from covered wagon days through to the mid-20th century, while we’re shown some wonderful period […]

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watched Nov 06, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 7.4 [blu-ray, Netflix] I found quite a lot to like in this film: the sparse hill country setting; the long stretches of quiet; the time jumps; the aging color inside the Instamatic framing; and, yes, the white-sheet device. And, as insufferable as Will Oldham is, and his […]

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watched Nov 06, 2017 spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 6.0 [blu-ray, Netflix] Witty and inventive in that indie film hey-look-at-this-clever-idea-I-had-let’s-turn-it-into-a-movie way. I couldn’t stop comparing it to BEING JOHN MALKOVICH while I was watching. https://boxd.it/lrLpP

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watched Nov 06, 2017 spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 7.5 [streaming, Netflix] This is the cinematic equivalent of one of those “A Day in the Life of America” books, where photographers set up at various locales and document a discrete 24-hour period through pictures. Except… This is a video document of about a dozen “average” people […]

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watched Nov 02, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 8.2 [DVD, library] The third on-screen partnering of Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and very funny. Hepburn gets to clown around while wearing a Jules Verne-style submersion helmet, and Tracy gets to spend two hours being his hilariously droll self by constantly spouting isms, as when he […]

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watched Nov 02, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 4.7 [DVD, library] Typical Tex Avery zaniness that wouldn’t float in today’s politically-correct society. All of the female characters are dames, and the male characters – taking the lead of the lecherous main fellow whose first name is Big and second name is Bad – are wolves. […]

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