Posts Tagged ‘Humphrey Bogart’
Top 5 – Acts of Redemption
Another Top 5 segment from The MacGuffin. This time Allen and Ed share their top 5 acts of redemption. This segment is also available on Stitcher, iTunes and from here. After you’ve watched the video please vote in our poll and share which one you…
READ MORETop 5 – Doomed Romances
Another Top 5 segment from The MacGuffin. This time Allen and Brandi share their top 5 doomed romances. This segment is also available on Stitcher and iTunes. The audio version can be downloaded directly from here. After you’ve watched the video please vote in our…
READ MOREAn Appreciation – Children of Men
The beginning of Alfonso Cuaron’s great film, Children of Men (2006), is like a cinematic wake up call, slapping us right in the face to gain our attention. We see a man in a coffee shop ordering a drink. A group of people huddle together,…
READ MORENarration in Nicholas Ray’s Noir “In A Lonely Place” (1950)
To continue the MacGuffin’s discussion of film noir, I’m looking in detail at Nicholas Ray’s In A Lonely Place (1950), a classic picture with a couple of cracking performances from Humphrey Bogart and Martha Stewart and a drunk man who recites Shakespeare.
READ MOREAn Appreciation – Casablanca
“We’ll always have Paris” – Rick Blaine If there was a vote taken to choose only one film from the 20th century to preserve for future generations to experience, my guess is that Casablanca (1942) would be that film. It is so iconic, so memorable,…
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