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Ocean's 11 (1960), a review by Antares

Ocean's 11





Year: 1960
Film Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Length: 127 Min.

Director
Lewis Milestone (1895)

Writing
George Clayton Johnson (1929)...Story
Jack Golden Russell...Story
Harry Brown (1917)...Screenplay
Charles Lederer (1911)...Screenplay

Producer
Lewis Milestone (1895)

Cinematographer
William H. Daniels (1901)

Music
Nelson Riddle (1921)...Composer

Stars
Frank Sinatra (1915) as Danny Ocean
Dean Martin (1917) as Sam Harmon
Sammy Davis Jr. (1925) as Josh Howard
Peter Lawford (1923) as Jimmy Foster
Angie Dickinson (1931) as Beatrice Ocean
Richard Conte (1910) as Anthony Raymond 'Tony' Bergdorf
Cesar Romero (1907) as Duke Santos
Patrice Wymore (1926) as Adele Ekstrom

Review
   WARNING: Citizen Kane this is not!

       When Frank Sinatra sang the famous line, from his last great hit, New York, New York is a product of its time and that means women are in her time.


Ratings Criterion

(From Ocean's 11 (1960) on January 30th, 2010)

The Lonely Man, a review by KinkyCyborg

Title:The Lonely Man
Year: 1957
Director:
Rating: NR
Length: 87 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono, French: Dolby Digital: Mono
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Jack Palance
Anthony Perkins
Neville Brand
Robert Middleton
Elisha Cook Jr.

Plot:
The past-and the future-close in on a reformed gunslinger. Like Alan Ladd's Shane, Gregory Peck's The Gunfighter and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, The Lonely Man belongs to that saddlebag full of Westerns bout a gunslinger coming to terms with his infamous past and uncertain future. Jack Palance stars as Jacob Wade, a notorious outlaw trying to ride the trail of respectability. But where Wade goes, his reputation follows. And so does trouble. Fearful citizens are quick to turn him out of their town. Vengeful killers have vowed to stalk him to his grave. And Wade's son (Anthony Perkins), embittered over his father's long absence, cannot quell the pain and hate in his heart. Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef, Claude Adkins and Elisha Cook co-star in this spare, ruggedly entertaining sagebrush saga.

Extras:
Scene Access


Lackluster western that had potential but just couldn't deliver.

Jack Palance was solid as a gunfighter trying to live a peaceful life but his past won't leave him be. This story has been told before... much better told in Unforgiven actually. A great cast alongside Palance including Anthony Perkins, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef, Claude Aikens and even Denver Pyle in a small role. Aikens, who always made a statement no matter what role he had, doesn't disappoint in his small part here either. That man always had great presence on screen.

Perkins, playing Palance's hateful son, portrays a teenage boy who is just too pathetic for words. Whiny, weak, slovenly... you keep waiting for the moment that he finally grows a spine and becomes a man and it just never happens. Even after the predictable finish I was still expecting for him to finally begin to resemble even a smidgen of the man his father was and instead the movie just abruptly ends. Booooo! 

KC



Rating:

(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2010 on October 17th, 2010)

Doctor Who Marathon, a review by Tom

Doctor Who
Series 1.12 Bad Wolf
Writer: Russell T Davies (Writer), Terry Nation (Original Characters By)
Director: Joe Ahearne
Cast: Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who), Billie Piper (Rose Tyler), John Barrowman (Captain Jack), Jo Joyner (Lynda), Jamie Bradley (Strood), Abi Eniola (Crosbie), Davina McCall (Voice of Davinadroid), Paterson Joseph (Rodrick), Jenna Russell (Floor Manager), Anne Robinson (Voice of Anne Droid), Trinny Woodall (Voice of Trine-E), Susannah Constantine (Voice of Zu-Zana), Jo Stone Fewings (Male Programmer), Nisha Nayar (Female Programmer), Dominic Burgess (Agorax), Karren Winchester (Fitch), Kate Loustau (Colleen), Sebastian Armesto (Broff), Martha Cope (Controller), Sam Callis (Security Guard), , Alan Ruscoe (Androids), Paul Kasey (Androids), , Barnaby Edwards (Dalek Operators), Nicholas Pegg (Dalek Operators), David Hankinson (Dalek Operators), , Nicholas Briggs (Dalek Voice)

A very fun first half of the episode, where the doctor is trapped in a Big Brother house and Rose is taking a part in a deadly version of The Weakest Link. And the finale is first big episodic cliffhanger, with Rose being captured by a huge Dalek army.




(From Doctor Who Marathon on February 10th, 2014)