Spitball Army

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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watched Nov 02, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 3.0 [DVD, library] A dry-as-a-bone fictional police procedural warning of the dispersion of untested medications. Most likely, this was shown in movie theaters before the feature and the cartoon. https://boxd.it/lkmiZ

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watched Nov 02, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 5.3 [blu-ray, Netflix] This movie gets such a bad rap. Honestly, though, for what it is – a dystopian fantasy with YA leanings – it’s good enough. I haven’t read the books, so I neither have an opinion about their representation in the film, nor do I […]

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watched Nov 02, 2017, spitballarmy’s review published on Letterboxd: 6.3 [blu-ray, Netflix] An academic must come to terms with how her life’s work has prepared her for the inevitable changes that life (or the cosmos, or chance) is throwing at her. Huppert is fine, as expected, and there is plenty of food for thought, especially for […]

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