tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post110471430437727330..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: Trailing Edge Film Review: New Year's Double FeatureHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1104737710184417952005-01-03T02:35:00.000-05:002005-01-03T02:35:00.000-05:00Speaking of Deathwish, does anyone have any idea w...Speaking of Deathwish, does anyone have any idea why Brian Garfield suddenly stopped writing novels in 1989? He's only 65 now, but I guess he dried up at 50. How much hope do I have at age 46?<br /><br /> JayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1104736950785608092005-01-03T02:22:00.000-05:002005-01-03T02:22:00.000-05:00Since my blog is bogged and won't log, I am relega...Since my blog is bogged and won't log, I am relegated to the role of what the French call plus caca comment, or some such Appalachian appellation.<br /><br />In any case, I shall add my Cutting Floor Edge reviews, or actually picks, of movies not quite knew. If one finds oneself converging upon one's local video rental emporium and one is singularly lacking in a game plan except that one wants two or more and one discovers to one's chagrin that she grins as she takes the last of the new stuff, that wench does, and so one determines in the interstice between cursing one's fate and stubbing one's toe on those darned Blockbuster doors that one wishes to avail oneself of the Favorites, namely such titles as have earned their repose on the various oddly angled shelves in the middle of one's establishment devoted to the antique antics of days gone by, then one might be disposed or predisposed if not too indisposed to select one of the following titles, such titles having been designated as not entirely unworth of viewing in the event that one tires of the pursuit of literature owing to the regrettable tendency of latter-day scriveners to indulge woefully in agonizing interminable renditions of that most awful of literary constructs: the run-on sentence.<br /><br />If you have never seen these, I recommend:<br />Where The Money Is with Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino and Dermot Mulroney. (If someone can answer why Linds Fiorentino does not work more, please advise.)<br /><br />Simpatico with Jeff Bridges, Nick Nolte and Sharon Stone. (Okay, I admit that the fact that Sharon is a personal friend of mine impairs my judgment, but - and I have told her this myself - I have never seen someone make their first appearance at the 1 hour, 5 minute mark of a movie and steal it lock, stock and barrel. Carolyn Keener has a trippy role here, too.)<br /><br />One of the great movies of all time:<br />The Hudsucker Proxy with Paul Newman and Tim Robbins and an Academy Award level performance by Jennifer Jason Leigh (another actress who should be working a great deal more).<br /><br />One more fun one that was filmed near me in Key Largo:<br />Heartbreakers with Gene Hackman, Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ray Liotta (and Anne Bancroft in a pathetic cameo)<br /><br />Let me know if you like 'em.<br /><br /> Jay D. HomnickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com