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So as you know, I stopped writing lengthy reviews on this site this year, keeping the blog as more of a film diary of sorts.  Lo and behold,...

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Hardcore

Hardcore (1979)
Starring George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Dick Sargent, and Ilah Davis
Directed by Paul Schrader
Written by Paul Schrader


The RyMickey Rating: B

Monday, June 29, 2020

Splash

Splash (1984)
Starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, and Eugene Levy
Directed by Ron Howard
Written by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, and Bruce Jay Friedman

The RyMickey Rating: C+

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Just Mercy

Just Mercy (2019)
Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Rob Morgan, Rafe Spall, O'Shea Jackson, and Tim Blake Nelson
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
Written by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Lanham


The RyMickey Rating: B

Saturday, June 27, 2020

A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Starring David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, and Marius Goring
Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Written by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger



The RyMickey Rating: B-

Friday, June 26, 2020

From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity (1953)
Starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Philip Ober, Mickey Shaughnessy, and Ernest Borgnine
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Written by Daniel Taradash


The RyMickey Rating: B

Thursday, June 25, 2020

D.O.A.

D.O.A. (1950)
Starring Edmund O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler
Directed by Rudolph Maté
Written by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene


The RyMickey Rating: D+

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife (1940)
Starring Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, and Gail Patrick 
Directed by Garson Kanin
Written by Leo McCarey, Sam Spewack, and Bella Speawck


The RyMickey Rating: C

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Quiz

Quiz (2020)
Starring Matthew Macfadyen, Sian Clifford, Mark Bonnar, Helen McCrory, Michael Jibson, and Michael Sheen
Directed by Stephen Frears
Written by James Graham

The RyMickey Rating:  C

Monday, June 22, 2020

The Ritual

The Ritual (2018)
Starring Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, and Sam Troughton
Directed by David Bruckner
Written by Joe Barton


The RyMickey Rating: B+

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Sorry to Bother You

Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Starring Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Omari Hardwick, Terry Crews, Danny Glover, Steven Yeun, and Armie Hammer
And the Vocal Talents of David Cross, Lily James, and Patton Oswalt
Directed by Boots Reilly
Written by Boots Reilly


The RyMickey Rating: B

Saturday, June 20, 2020

Funny Girl

Funny Girl (1968)
Starring Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, and Walter Pidgeon
Directed by William Wyler
Written by Isobel Lennart


The RyMickey Rating: D+

Friday, June 19, 2020

Little Joe

Little Joe (2019)
Starring Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor, David Wilmot, Phénix Brossard, Sebastian Hülk, and Lindsay Duncan
Directed by Jessica Hausner
Written by Jessica Hausner and Géraldine Bajard


The RyMickey Rating: B

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Fractured

Fractured (2019)
Starring Sam Worthington, Lily Rabe, Stephen Tobolowsky, Adjoa Andoh, and Lucy Capri
Directed by Brad Anderson
Written by Alan B. McElroy


The RyMickey Rating: C

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Splendor in the Grass

Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Starring Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, and Zohra Lampert
Directed by Elia Kazan
Written by William Inge


The RyMickey Rating: B+

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Wings

Wings (1927)
Starring Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen, and Jobyna Ralston
Directed by William A. Wellman
Written by Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton


The RyMickey Rating:  B+

Monday, June 15, 2020

Sunday, June 14, 2020

The Wacky World of Mother Goose

The Wacky World of Mother Goose (1967)
Featuring the vocal talents of Margaret Rutherford, Bob McFadden, and Bradley Bolke
Directed by Jules Bass
Written by Romeo Muller



The RyMickey Rating: F

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Mad Monster Party?

Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Featuring the vocal talents of Boris Karloff, Alan Swift, Gale Garnett, and Phyllis Diller 
Directed by Jules Bass
Written by Len Korobkin and Harvey Kurtzman


The RyMickey Rating: C

Friday, June 12, 2020

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Starring William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Murray Matheson, Virginia Gregg, Richard Loo, Soo Yong, Philip Ahn, Jorja Curtright, and Donna Martell
Directed by Henry King
Written by John Patrick


The RyMickey Rating: D-

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Velvet Buzzsaw

Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer, Daveed Diggs, Billy Magnussen, and John Malkovich
Directed by Dan Gilroy
Written by Dan Gilroy


The RyMickey Rating: B-

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

The Land of Steady Habits

The Land of Steady Habits (2018)
Starring Ben Mendelsohn, Edie Falco, Thomas Mann, Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, Charlie Tahan, Michael Gaston, Josh Pais, and Connie Britton
Directed by Nicole Holofcener
Written by Nicole Holofcener


The RyMickey Rating: C+

Tuesday, June 09, 2020

Ace in the Hole

Ace in the Hole (1951)
Starring Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Bob Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady, Richard Benedict, and Ray Teal
Directed by Billy Wilder
Written by Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, and Walter Newman

The RyMickey Rating: C+

Monday, June 08, 2020

Stormy Weather

Stormy Weather (1943)
Starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and His Band, Katherine Dunham and Her Troupe, Fats Waller, The Nicholas Brothers, Ada Brown, Babe Wallace, and Dooley Wilson
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Written by Frederick Jackson and Ted Koehler


The RyMickey Rating:  B-


Sunday, June 07, 2020

Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven (1981)
Starring Steven Marting, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper, Vernel Bagneris, and Christopher Walken
Directed by Herbert Ross
Written by Dennis Potter


The RyMickey Rating: B

Saturday, June 06, 2020

The Letter

The Letter (1940)
Starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, and Gale Sondergaard
Directed by William Wyler
Written by Howard Koch


The RyMickey Rating: B

Friday, June 05, 2020

Mr. Mom

Mr. Mom (1983)
Starring Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Ann Jillian, Christopher Lloyd, Jeffrey Tambor, Frederick Koehler, Taliesin Jaffe, Courtney and Brittany White, Graham Jarvis, Miriam Flynn, Carolyn Seymour, and Martin Mull
Directed by Stan Dragoti
Written by John Hughes

The RyMickey Rating: B-

Thursday, June 04, 2020

42nd Street

42nd Street (1933)
Starring Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, Ginger Rogers, Ned Sparks, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins, Edward J. Nugent, Robert McWade, George E. Stone
Directed by Lloyd Bacon and Dancing Sequences Directed by Busby Berkeley
Written by Ryan James and James Seymour

Click here for my Letterboxd review

The RyMickey Rating: B-

Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Luce

Luce (2019)
Starring Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Octavia Spencer, Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Brian Bradley, Andrea Bang, and Norbert Leo Butz
Directed by Julius Onah
Written by JC Lee and Julius Onah


The RyMickey Rating: B

Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Top Hat

Top Hat (1935)
Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers,Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, and Helen Broderick
Directed by Mark Sandrich
Written by Dwight Taylor and Allan Scott


The RyMickey Rating: C-

Monday, June 01, 2020

Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey (2019)
Starring Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Kevin Doyle, Michael C. Fox, Joanne Froggatt, Matthew Goode, Harry Hadden-Paton, Robert James-Collier, Allen Leech, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Sophie McShera, Lesley Nicol, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Geraldine James, Simon Jones, Tuppence Middleton, Kate Phillips, and Imelda Staunton
Directed by Michael Engler
Written by Julian Fellowes

Click here for my Letterboxd review

The RyMickey Rating:  B-