Monday, March 14, 2022

GET MICHAEL CAINE!

 Michael Caine, one of my favorite actors is 89 years old today and in celebration of this famous British icon, I will review here some of my favorite Caine performances.  His filmography on IMDb lists 134 film credits, which is quite a large body of work so it is rather difficult to pick out just a few. However, these here are my most memorable Michael Caine appearances:

ZULU (1964) 

With Stanley Baker

THE IPCRESS FILE (1965) 

 
With Sue Lloyd

ALFIE (1966)With Shelley Winters

THE ITALIAN JOB (1969)



TOO LATE THE HERO (1970)

         With Cliff Robertson


GET CARTER (1971)
 


SLEUTH (1972)
With Sir Laurence Olivier


THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1975)


With Sean Connery 

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED (1976)


DRESSED TO KILL (1980) 


With Angie Dickinson
                                                                                                                          
DEATHTRAP (1982)  
                                                           With Christopher Reeve

                   EDUCATING RITA (1983) 

With Julie Walters

BLAME IT ON RIO (1984)
 
With Michelle Johnson and Joseph Bologna

HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1985)
 With Barbara Hershey

MONA LISA (1986)  With Bob Hoskins

THE FOURTH PROTOCOL (1987)

WITHOUT A CLUE (1988)
 With Ben Kingsley

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS (1988)

A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM (1990)

NOISES OFF (1992)

THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (1999)
 With Toby McGuire

SHINER (2000)


THE QUIET AMERICAN (2002)


SECONDHAND LIONS (2003)

THE STATEMENT (2003)

BATMAN BEGINS (2004)
With director Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale


As Alfred Pennyworth

 
THE PRESTIGE (2006)

FLAWLESS (2007)
With Demi Moore


HARRY BROWN (2009)

GOING IN STYLE (2017)
With Alan Arkin and Morgan Freeman

KING OF THIEVES (2018) 


TWIST (2021)

BEST SELLERS (2021)

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

STAN LAUREL (1890 - 1965)

As we do every year on February 23rd, we take a moment to pay tribute to one of the greatest  comedians to ever grace the silver screen: Mr. Stan Laurel!

                                                You can check Stan's entry on IMDb here:

                                                                         STAN LAUREL

Sunday, February 20, 2022

DOG CHASING MAN

One of the special problems about living in a rural area is that you find a lot of playful stray dogs around who take enormous delight in chasing old guys going out for a walk, like me!