Reviews

What's great in this film is that Gyllenhaal's character, Louis Bloom, takes his role as a stringer one step further and starts influencing the stories he's capturing for news station KWLA 6. ...

I find it often depends on who's viewing it as to how it's seen - the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cheyenne denied the film's release, even though the message I see in the film is a very positive one. ...

It sets up a love story within a more toxic love story for Sam, for it's not long before he finds out that Martha ended up marrying Walter O'Neil Jnr (Kirk Douglas, in his feature film debut), and that the latter ended up becoming Iverstown's district attorney. ...

The scenes featuring danger and action were some of the most thrilling, tense and gripping I've ever seen in a noir film - real edge-of-your-seat stuff and actually the greatest thing about the film while I'm in 'watching it' mode. ...

In Samuel Fuller's 1953 Cold War spy film noir film Pickup on South Street the crimes of the anti-hero are excused and condoned in the name of fighting communism. ...

I know it serves to increase that feeling of being pent-up without any recourse or escape, but there's only so much you can do with that before you've exhausted many of the movie's possibilites, and I would have loved to have seen this adapted as a full-fledged film rather than as a filmed play. ...

There's some reminiscence about a male character, Joe Qualley (Mark Patton) - a young boy often taunted and beaten by the men in town, and unseen is young James Dean in 1975, whom Mona claims came as a result of a night spent between her and Dean while 1956 film Giant was being filmed - her being an... ...

So overall, speaking generally, my thoughts and feelings have also changed over time regarding Popeye, and I think the film gains a lot when you're more of a film lover. ...

If you rewatch the scene with the making of the film in mind, it's hard not to admire the skill needed to accomplish shots like that. ...

A very cool film, hip to everything that makes watching these films so enjoying. ...