May 30th: Mr. Roberts

Everyone Pretty much knows It's Memorial day because of all the beer parties and camp-outs that are going on this weekend, so it shouldn't come as much a surprise that TCM is celebrating with movies, War movies. Well, though there are always good ones, only so many war movies have actually held my interest. My mom was searching TCM for something, saw this, and her automatic response was to look at me and with her eyes ask 'How's that. I can find movies too,huh?' Well, I was less than enthused just at the whole "war movie" deal, but I figured it had to be better than All About Eve. Later today she asked her father (who comes over for dinner once a week) if that was the movie where they threw the palm tree overboard. Okay, more intrigued. And I watched mostly for the idea of wondering how the heck a palm tree was thrown in.

Mister Roberts come out in 1955 starring Henry Fonda. Well, we all saw his daughter in my bad guess movie, Sunday In New York. Here, He's a Lt. Roberts, Usually just called Roberts or Dug, on a Navy cargo ship during WWII. Roberts is the crew rep. to the Captain, who really comes off as a bitter old lady with an abnormal obsession with his sacred palm tree.

Roberts is constantly fighting for the rights or even tiny privileges of the men, serving as the leader against the crews rivalry against the captain, but also serving like a big brother to the entire crew during the antics they pull.
The movie has an amazing ending, both just an adorable, and serves to the end of a really great film. The picture is only about two hours long, and isn't rated, but there is NOTHING to worry about with even the youngest of kids watching it.




Well, thinking about changing the layout to be a little brighter and easier to follow. Wish me luck!

The Flick Chick

May 29th: The African Queen

One of the fondest memories I have from my childhood was sleeping over at my Grandma Anne and Uncle Jerry's place because they lived all the way in Arizona. My mother and father once let my brother and I stay over the night all by ourselves. My Grandparents were about as excited as we were (If not more) And we ate chocolate Popsicles while watching some old movie. I remember they all fell asleep to this, but I stayed awake, To intrigued by the story to sleep. Now we live in Arizona, And I asked Grandpa to lend me the VHS for my project.
I love this Movie.

The African Queen came out in 1951, starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. This is a great Adventure romance, with a little bit of a hanging ending. Katharine Hepburn stars as a Bible-happy Missionary,Rose, who, with her brother, started a church in an African village just before WWI. Bogart enters as Charlie, the scruffy Delivery guy, a real Yank to the two pristine British siblings.
The German troops attack and burn down the village that Rose and her brother were volunteering in. When the two are the only ones left, her brother goes crazy over the tradgity, and dies in only days. When Charlie comes back, he and Rose bury the body, and take off down the river before the German's come back, Sailing the African Queen down Africa. Well, they come up with an idea to make a torpedo and send it at the boat that attacked, but in the mean time, the story is about these two complete opposites try to live in the same boat, avoiding all kinds of disasters. Of course, everyone knows, opposites attract.



This movie is in Technicolor, and great as a family movie, if it was so great to me as a little ten-year-old. Not rated, but I'd give it about a PG, and highly recommend it.
This really picked me up after yesterdays disappointment, and I wasn't fidgety at all.

Project continues well. And hey! Africa!

The Flick Chick

May 28th: All About Eve

Dear Readers, I found my bad review. Well, This movie stars Bette Davis as Margo, an actress on Broadway. Bette Davis really is just an old movie actress, but you may know her now from the hit song Bette Davis Eyes. The movie came out in 1950, but I can't explain to you any plot. Basically, a Younger girl adores Margo, seeing every show of every play she's in. After Margo meets the girl, Eve, they hit it off and Eve becomes her assistant.

After a while, Margo notices that Eve continues copying her more and more, and Eve even makes moves at her husband, and gets a huge part she wanted in a friends play. All this is is Eve being an evil, devious person, clawing her way over people because she seemed so shy and polite. Margo is portrayed as the witch on stage until the end, where Eve is found out.


I fell asleep. Well, nearly. This movie did nothing but waist two hours of me life. The only thing that intrigued me at all was the few soliloquies (Long speeches made by characters talking to themselves), about how theater is for the outcasts, not every other person who wants to be noticed. Though this gets raving reviews and awards, it sucks. It really bored me to tears.





P.S. New York again


Remember, Anyone can be a jerk on stage; Takes an outcast to really pull it off

May 27th: Sunday in New York

My Dad told me that I wasn't a real review-ist until I wrote a negative review. This made sense to me, so I decided to review a movie I really didn't like. Totally thought I had found it when I saw the description for this one. I had right away guessed it to be boring, and was even disappointed in watching it, sure that it would be awful.

Well, just from that you can infer that my guessing is awful because I really can't write a bad review about this film.

Sunday in New York came out in 1963 starring one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen :Jane Fonda. I didn't know it was her in the movie until I read more than the description and her comedic attitude surely added to this story what it wouldn't have had otherwise.

Fonda stars as a 22-year-old woman, Aileen, who is no local to New York (as shown just by seeing her clumsiness walk around
) She comes to New York to visit her brother, Adam, and ask him a question: Should a girl just sleep with a man when he expects her to? Aileen has been having trouble with guys, because she wants to remain a virgin until marriage. Her brother (doing the natural big brother thing) convinces her that the answer is no, even telling her he is a virgin too to make her feel better (meanwhile, he's trying to get his sister to go away so he and his sweetheart can get it on for the millionth time.)

Well, Aileen believes him and goes about other business in New York for the morning, running into an awkward stranger when her pin gets stuck to his coat on the bus. He, in hopes to convince her ruining his jacket was okay between them, takes her to eat, but she ditches him, only to meet him on the same bus again. the two of them end up spending the day together, and become quite the friends. When they go back to her apartment, Aileen figures out Adam lied, and figured that the "No" answer was really a yes, and tries to seduce her new friend, Michael, by the way. He refuses to do anything with her because she is a virgin, but rather because he wants her to wait until she's married. The arguement over this is the best scene in the entire movie. But then!!!!! As the two are fighting in bathrobes, in come the guy that Aileen really thinks she's in love with to proclaim he's sorry about the Virgin thing, proclaiming his love for Aileen.
(This guy, must say, is a serious Schmuck to me. Its like "Yeah, It's okay you didn't want me, and it's also okay you made me want to sleep with a near stranger for your approval. Of course I'll marry you" Yeah....That'll happen).

That, my friends, is where the movie really erupts into craziness, and is a serious treat to watch. I'm not disappointed in not finding a bad movie if it led me to this one in he process.


YouTube has shamed me with it's having nothing in relation to this movie aside the opening credits song of the same name. Still, If you see it on TCM or anywhere else it's one of the better movies I've ever watched, just under 2 hours long, In color, and,aside moral standing and a few sexual commentaries (not raunchy, very discreet) Its a great movie to watch with Teens or adults. Not to mention, this movie is the best example of "the confusion without cell-phone" I have ever seen, because lack of communication leads to ALL of Adam's problems while we follow his story with Aileen's.


Never judge a book by its cover, nor movie by its Dish Network review.

Dear God, New York is a great place for old movies, but can I go back to Ireland or someplace new soon?

The Chick Of Flick

May 26th: One-Eyed Jacks

Westerns are unlike any other genre in a few different ways. Thee is the obvious is the Cowboy fixation, but they are also filmed choppier to hold a different suspense from Dramas. Anyone who's watched even Mock-westerns in the odd T.V. show knows what I mean about this, seeing severe close-ups chopped up with far shots; It's not hard to recognize.

Spaghetti Westerns, however, are whats separated from the other western genre. Italian directors introduced sweeping camera movements into the western idea and this style has adapted into a mini- genre for westerns. One-Eyed Jacks is a good example of this.

The movie came out in 1961, starring and directed by Marlon Brando, who we all know as the Godfather. Brando Stars as "Kid" Rio, a bandit in 1880 with his partner and best friend, "Dad" Longworth (Karl Malden). Rio is a serious womanizer and total schmuck at the beginning of this film. After robbing a bank in small town in Mexico, the two are running from a posse, and get nearly cornered. They decide their horse is too weak, so Longworth goes and leaves Rio to get fast horses and come back. Except he never comes back. Rio ends up in jail for 5 years and comes out a changed man, for the most part.
Rio travels to Monterey, California, seeking revenge on Longsworth for letting him go to jail, but stays in Monterey, waiting out the new relationship with his 'Old Pal' , and falling for his beautiful Mexican Step-daughter.

The movie gets pretty intense once Rio's new buddies stir up to much trouble, and his anger at Longworth swells. The movie is in color, but more than two hours in length, being rather long-plotted. Still, really really good.






The movie can be seen here in one full piece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k26yb93rjos

Project continues well. Last day of school tomorrow then I belong to my blog for the summer!

The Chick of Flick

May 25th: Breakfast at Tiffany's

This one I borrowed from a friend, but it's such a classic it can be found Everywhere. Breakfast at Tiffany's came out in 1961 Starring Audry Hepburn as Holly Golightly. Really, though, this story is about A man named Paul and what happens to him when he moves into the same building as Holly, and all the weird situations the two get into including (but not limited to):

• Revealing Holly's true identity
• Stealing masks from the toy store
• Getting in trouble with the mafia

• And the always climactic, Finding your nameless cat before making out in the rain

The movie is now a Hepburn classic, and originally Blake Edwards (the director ) had wanted Elizabeth Taylor to do the part. It just proves that when in theater, TRUST THE MUSES.

The movie is not only a classic for Hepburn, but also the one people bring up with mentioning how classy and stylish she is. Wow. Apparently two generations before this one people knew something because if I was as 'classy' As Audry Hepburn is this movie, people would think I'm insane. (Of course, most of them already do thing I'm insane......)

The movie is a great romantic comedy, and i think its a great date movie. Note: there is a difference between date movie and make-out movie in my book )




Well, back in New York today. I'm feeling a round trip theme erupting in old movies. For now,
The Chick of Flick, Signing off

May 24th: It's a Wonderful Life

We lived in a teeny home until I was in the third grade, my family and I. One of my most distinct memories is waking my dad up on weekend mornings when the sun was finally up because I had something new to talk about.
Once, I don't remember when for there were to many conversations to have in order, I asked him what his favorite movie was. He asked the question back, and I told him I couldn't have a favorite (as reflected in my project choice, and most of the rest of my interests). Well, my father told me his favorite movie was It's a Wonderful Life , so when I watched this for the first time that I could remember the plot, I think part of the reason I loved it so much was because how much of my father I saw in it.

The movie came out in 1946 starring Jimmy Stewart, currently my favorite actor, in the first thing I can really remember him in, another part of this movie that links me to my father who has a thing for Mr. Stewart. Anyways, the movie begins with a meeting of powerful angels, debating over how to help a man named George Bailey that they've received a lot of prayers about, so they show the story of his life. This man has spent his entire life giving up everything he has for others, giving up his dreams of traveling, but finding an amazing wife (Donna Reed) and staying in town where everyone knows him. Well, after a banking problem occurs in the bank he took over after his father's death, Bailey finally snaps and decided everything would be better if he were never born.....
This is when the angels send Bailey Clarence, a wingless angel who's to take on Bailey's cause to earn his wings and show him what the world would have been like without Bailey giving everything he had.

This movie is referenced EVERYWHERE. For one, tons of sitcoms love to make one of their characters the 'Bailey' in an episode to get them to see what their world would have been like, and the movie also had a part in Bruce Almighty where after watching Bailey tell a girl he'll give her the moon by pulling it down with a lasso, and then Bruce does it.

Its available in both color and black and white, but mostly back and white. Its a little longer than two hours (and by a little I mean exactly ten minutes). Any age can watch this, but not any age will enjoy it, because its a little slowly plotted, but a beautiful film none-the-less.



Well, in America today, I guess. Dunno what tomorrow's movie is yet but wish me luck!
The Flick Chick


But remember, Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings.