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Happy Birthday Janet Gaynor, It Was Nice To Know Ya
Born Laura Augusta Gainor on this day, in the year that saw the city by the bay destroyed by madness, across the land in the city of brotherly love (before moving, oddly enough, to San Fran just a few...
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My Ten Favourite Things About Breathless (No, Not That One, the Other One,...
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, or À Bout de Souffle if you will (damn dirty translators), is one of the finest achievements of cinema in the whole damn history of cinema - and yes,...
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Battle Royale #6: Battle of the Bitter Sisters (The Results)
Another Battle Royale and another tight race from beginning to end. This time we pitted a pair of long-estranged Hollywood sisters against each other in an all-out death cage match. Okay, at 96 and...
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Film Review: Rian Johnson's Looper
Once one gets past the gaping holes in logic - which fairly speaking, tends to be part and parcel for any time travel movie - and the somewhat unnerving make-up and prosthetics used to make the younger...
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Film Review: John Frankenheimer's Killer Joe
Killer Joe, the latest film from Oscar winning director William Friedkin, is a sadistic, bloody and depraved film - and it may just be the best damn genre movie of the last few years, as well as a film...
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Film Review: Martin McDonaugh's Seven Psychopaths
How can a film titled Seven Psychopaths, directed by Martin McDonagh, the man who brought us the tragic hilarity of In Bruges, and stars such pseudo-psychopaths as Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody...
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Battle Royale #7: Battle of the New Wave
Welcome to the seventh Battle Royale here at The Most Beautiful Fraud in the World. It is an ongoing series that will pit two classic cinematic greats against each other - and you can vote for who is...
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My Quest to See the 1000 Greatest Films: #900 Thru #919
Here is a look at the latest twenty films in my Quest to See the 1000 Greatest Films. These twenty films were seen between Aug. 19th and Sept. 25th. A complete look at my quest can be viewed...
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Film Review: Craig Zobel's Compliance
A willing suspension of disbelief can only go so far. The premise of a fast food manager locking up, strip searching and sexually humiliating a nineteen year old employee because a man on the phone,...
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A Quick (Hopefully) Hurricane Break
Last year around this time, I was watching John Ford's underappreciated classic The Hurricane while an actual hurricane raged outside. Back then we were only getting some residual effects from the...
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100 Fun Film Facts About Yours Truly
A few months back, or is it over a year now (gee I procrastinate) a brand new blogathon/meme began spreading its cyber wings across the so-called blogosphere, originating over at Cinematic Paradox....
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Film Review: The Man With the Iron Fists
After seeing the Quentin Tarantino-produced, RZA and Eli Roth-written and RZA-directed grindhouse martial arts film The Man With the Iron Fists, I can say without a doubt that it is neither any better,...
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Film Review: Sam Mendes' Skyfall
I suppose every red blooded American boy or Union Jack flying British lad has a sort of man love for the high-flying, death-defying exploits of James Bond and his 007 adventures tucked away somewhere...
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Battle Royale #7: Battle of the New Wave (The Results)
We had ourselves a little technical trouble this time around, which is why the poll widget looks a bit different than in past days, and is why we extended the voting period by a week, but everything is...
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My Quest to See the 1000 Greatest Films: #920 Thru #949
Here is a look at the latest thirty films in my Quest to See the 1000 Greatest Films. These thirty films were seen between Sept. 25th and Oct. 16th. A complete look at my quest can be viewed HERE.So...
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Jean Seberg - A Poem On Her Birthday
This poem was originally written and published last year to honour Miss Jean Seberg. Now, to celebrate the 74th anniversary of the birth of this beautiful yet tragic figure from film history, I...
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Film Review: Cloud Atlas
I went into Cloud Atlas, co-directed by Tom Tykwer and Lana and Andy Wachowski, not sure what to expect. On the one hand, Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run was one of the more intriguing films of the 1990's,...
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Battle Royale #8: Battle of Comic Mayhem
Welcome to the eighth Battle Royale here at The Most Beautiful Fraud in the World. It is an ongoing series that will pit two classic cinematic greats against each other - and you can vote for who is...
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Retro Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The following is part of a series where I bring back some of my "older" reviews (those written during my 2004-2011 tenure at the now mostly defunct The Cinematheque) and offer them up to a "newer"...
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Anomalous Material Feature: 10 Best James Bond Films
It has been quite a while (four and a half months for those keeping score at home), but here we are once again true believers, with my latest 10 best feature written for the fine folks over at...
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