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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,...

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Uncle Buck

 Uncle Buck (1989)
Starring John Candy, Jean Louisa Kelly, Macauley Culkin, Gaby Hoffman, Amy Madigan, and Laurie Metcalf
Directed by John Hughes
Written by John Hughes


The RyMickey Rating: C-

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

The Egg and I

 The Egg and I (1947)
Starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, and Louise Allbritain
Directed by Chester Erskine
Written by Chester Erskine and Fred F. Finklehoffe


The RyMickey Rating:  D+

Monday, September 28, 2020

The Omega Man

 The Omega Man (1971)
Starring Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, and Rosalind Cash
Directed by Boris Sagal
Written by John William Corrington and Joyce H. Corrington


The RyMickey Rating:  D

Sunday, September 27, 2020

Star 80

 Star 80 (1983)
Starring Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, and Roger Rees
Directed by Bob Fosse
Written by Bob Fosse


The RyMickey Rating:  B+

Saturday, September 26, 2020

The Gold Rush

 The Gold Rush (1925)
Starring Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite, and Georgia Hale
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Written by Charlie Chaplin


The RyMickey Rating:  B+

Friday, September 25, 2020

The Window

The Window (1949)
Starring Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, and Ruth Roman
Directed by Ted Tetzlaff
Written by Mel Dinelli


The RyMickey Rating: B+

Thursday, September 24, 2020

The Way Back

The Way Back (2020)
Starring Ben Affleck, Al Madrigal, Michaela Watkins, and Janina Gavankar
Directed by Gavin O'Connor
Written by Brad Ingelsby


The RyMickey Rating: B

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

It: Chapter Two

It: Chapter Two (2019) 
Starring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, Sophia Lillis, Jaeden Martell, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, and Bill Skarsgård
Directed by Andy Muschietti
Written by Gary Dauberman


The RyMickey Rating:

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

The One and Only Ivan

The One and Only Ivan (2020)
Starring Bryan Cranston, Ramón Rodríguez, and Ariana Greenblatt
And the vocal talents of Sam Rockwell, Angelina Jolie, Danny DeVito, and Helen Mirren
Directed by Thea Sharrock
Written by Mike White


The RyMickey Rating:  B

Monday, September 21, 2020

Sunday, September 20, 2020

High Society

High Society (1956)
Starring Fred Astaire, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund, and Louis Armstrong
Directed by Charles Walters
Written by John Patrick


The RyMickey Rating:  D+

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Follow That Bird

Follow That Bird (1985)
Starring Carroll Spinney (Big Bird, Oscar), Jim Henson (Kermit, Ernie), Frank Oz (Bert, Cookie Monster, Grover), Cheryl Wagner (Miss Finch puppetry), Sally Kellerman (Miss Finch voice), Bob McGrath, Roscoe Orman, Linda Bove, Emilio Delgado, Sonia Manzano, Alaina Reed, Loretta Long, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Alyson Court, Benjamin Barrett, Waylon Jennings, Sandra Bernhard, Chevy Chase, and John Candy
Directed by Ken Kwapis
Written by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss


The RyMickey Rating:  B

Friday, September 18, 2020

The First Wives Club

The First Wives Club (1996)
Starring Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Maggie Smith, Dan Hedaya, Bronson Pinchot, Marcia Gay Harden, Stephen Collins, Elizabeth Berkley, Eileen Heckart, Victor Garber, and Stockard Channing
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Written by Robert Harling



The RyMickey Rating:

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Hamilton

Hamilton (2020)
Starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo, Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsbury, Christopher Jackson, Anthony Ramos, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Okieriete Onaodowan, and Jonathan Groff
Directed on film and stage by Thomas Kail
Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda


The RyMickey Rating:  B

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

The Aftermath

The Aftermath (2019)
Starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, and Jason Clarke
Directed by James Kent
Written by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse


The RyMickey Rating:  C

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

I Want to Live

I Want to Live! (1958)
Starring Susan Hayward and Simon Oakland
Directed by Robert Wise
Written by Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz



The RyMickey Rating: B-

Monday, September 14, 2020

Swing Shift

Swing Shift (1984)
Starring Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward, and Ed Harris
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Written by Nancy Dowd, Bo Goldman, and Ron Nyswaner


The RyMickey Rating: D

Sunday, September 13, 2020

Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel (1932)
Starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and Lionel Barrymore
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Written by William A. Drake


The RyMickey Rating: C

Saturday, September 12, 2020

Dolemite Is My Name

Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
Starring Eddie Murphy, Da'Vine Joy Brown, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Tituss Burgess, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Wesley Snipes
Directed by Craig Brewer
Written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski



The RyMickey Rating: B

Friday, September 11, 2020

The Night Clerk

The Night Clerk (2017)

Starring Tye Sheridan, Helen Hunt, Ana de Armas, and John Leguizamo
Directed by Michael Cristofer
Written by Michael Cristofer


The RyMickey Rating: D

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Gaslight

Gaslight (1944)
Starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Mae Whitty, and Angela Lansbury
Directed by George Cukor
Written by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, and John L. Balderston


The RyMickey Rating:  B

Wednesday, September 09, 2020

Gypsy

Gypsy (1962)
Starring Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, and Karl Malden
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Written by Leonard Spigelgass



The RyMickey Rating: D+

Tuesday, September 08, 2020

Monday, September 07, 2020

Lady in a Cage

Lady in a Cage (1964)
Starring Olivia de Havilland, James Caan, Jennifer Billingsley, Jeff Corey, Rafael Campos, William Swan, and Ann Sothern
Directed by Walter Grauman
Written by Luther Davis


The RyMickey Rating: C+

Sunday, September 06, 2020

The Polka King

The Polka King (2018)
Starring Jack Black, Jenny Slate, Jason Schwartzman, J.B. Smoove, Vanessa Bayer, and Jacki Weaver
Directed by Maya Forbes
Written by Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky


The RyMickey Rating: B-

Saturday, September 05, 2020

Tootsie

Tootsie (1982)
Starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Bill Murray, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Sydney Pollack, Doris Belack, George Gaynes, Geena Davis, and Charles Durning
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Written by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal


The RyMickey Rating: A-