The Narrow Margin is a taut, fun adventure. It does not overstay its welcome; it knows exactly where it is going and how to get there. While the plot will not rock anyone to their core, it is an example is effective filmmaking for the strict purpose of producing some thrills.
December is Tarantino Month here at SOS, and in the week leading up our January month-long theme of westerns, I thought it would be best to whip up an article spotlighting some films that influenced Tarantino’s long-awaited take on the western, Django Unchained. For my money, all of the films listed below are essential viewing …
Armored Car Robbery Directed by Richard Fleischer Written by Earl Felton, Gerald Drayson Adams et al. U.S.A., 1950 The subject of a common argument amongst film lovers pertains to a given movie’s length. Was the movie too short, too long or just the right length? The easy answer is, naturally, that it depends on the …
We know the greats; movies like Metropolis (1927), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Star Wars (1977). And there are those films which maybe didn’t achieve cinematic greatness, but through their inexhaustible watchability became genre touchstones, lesser classics but classics nonetheless, like The War of the Worlds (1953), Godzilla (1954), …